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Since launching The Real Book Spy, Steck has broken relevant industry news, written hundreds of book reviews, and conducted interviews with many of the genre's top thriller authors on his way to becoming one of the most respected voices among thriller fans.
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New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison is back with another twisting physiological thriller that’ll test how fast readers can turn the page as they race to see how this one ends.
Olivia Bender wants a child more than anything. Though she has a successful career designing home interiors, the vast majority of Olivia’s life revolves around her fertility treatments. She and her husband, Park, have tried everything to conceive a child. They’ve done numerous rounds of IVF, but even when that seems to work, she loses the baby, and the process starts all over again. Feeling she’s des ..read more
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Who doesn’t love a good list, right?
2022 was a big year for thrillers going mainstream on streaming services, with both The Terminal List (starring Chris Pratt) and The Gray Man (starring Ryan Gosling) turning heads on Amazon Prime and Netflix, respectively. And if you enjoyed those, you might be looking for a book series or two that’s similar. If that’s the case, we’ve got you covered.
Below is a list of 10 must-read thriller series to read if you enjoyed The Terminal List or The Gray Man.
Strap in tight.
Happy reading!
1.) Jack Carr’s James Reece Series
This one is obvious, but if you like ..read more
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New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke, best known for his famous Detective David Robicheaux series, is set to release a new standalone novel this year called Flags on the Bayou, available everywhere on July 11th, 2023.
It’s been two years since the last Robicheaux novel, A Private Cathedral (2020), hit bookstores, but James Lee Burke is still cranking out books. Over the last two years, the beloved author, now 86-years-old, has released new titles in his Holland family saga. This year, though, he will change course and publish a new Civil War-era standalone novel set in New Orleans ..read more
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New York Times bestselling author Joel C. Rosenberg, one of the best headline-beating novelist in fiction today, is back with his most thrilling and shocking novel to date.
Following the events of The Beirut Protocol (2021), Special Agent Marcus Ryker returns to once again take on Kairos, a terrorist group responsible for launching devastating attacks in Washington, D.C., London, and Jerusalem. This time around, shortly after returning home, Ryker learns that the effective HQ for Abu Nakba, the head of Kairos and the man behind the recent attacks, has been located in Libya. Ryker per ..read more
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T.J. Newman is back with another blockbuster, proving that Falling, her lights-out debut, was no fluke, but just the beginning of what should be a long, stellar career.
Newman opens her highly-anticipated sophomore novel with a riveting sequence that shows Flight 1421 crash into the Pacific Ocean just off of Hawaii. Captured from the perspectives of various passengers, both pilots and the lead flight attendant, Newman takes readers from the cockpit to the back seats, where a sleeping father wakes up just in time to see the plane’s engines explode. Nine seconds after crashing violentl ..read more
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Welcome to March, thriller fans!
Coming off of a red-hot February, this month brings another wave of can’t-miss thrillers from some of the biggest names in the game today. As always, we’ve highlights a couple of titles to spotlight, and this month’s Featured Selections are Wolf Trap by Connor Sullivan and Loyalty by Lisa Scottoline.
Read more about those books, plus everything else hitting bookstores this month, below.
Happy reading!
Tuesday, March 7th
What Have We Done by Alex Finlay
From Alex Finlay, the author of Every Last Fear and The Night Shift, comes an action-packed new thrille ..read more
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On October 10th, New York Times bestselling father and son writing duo Nelson and Alex DeMille are set to release Blood Lines, the second book in their popular Scott Brodie series.
Three years after first appearing in The Deserter (2019), Army investigator Scott Brodie is finally set to return. So too, is his partner, Maggie Taylor, who stole scene after scene in The Deserter, quickly becoming a fan-favorite character. That book, the first in the series, saw Scott—working out of the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division—tasked with bringing in an AWOL Delta Force Captain who previously vanish ..read more
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On October 10th, Simon Gervais’ Clayon White series is set to continue with his latest action-packed thriller, The Last Guardian.
White, originally introduced as a former air force combat rescue officer turned Secret Service agent, first appeared in Gervais’ 2021 novel, The Last Protector. Most recently, was last seen in The Last Sentinel (2022), which followed Clayton, no longer with the Secret Service, as he tried to protect his fiance’s father, the Vice President of the United States of America, from an assassination attempt. The Last Guardian is the third book in the series, and from what ..read more
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After a three year hiatus, John Dempsey is back and better than ever in the latest can’t-miss thriller from Andrews & Wilson.
Following the events of Collateral (2020), Task Force Ember, the “president’s ‘go-to’ black ops asset,” is fresh off a successful mission in Ukraine. There’s just one problem. Their leader, Dempsey, is dead. Or at least that’s what Ember thinks, as they mourn his loss while simultaneously preparing to hunt down Russian spymaster Arkady Zhukov. The latest intelligence reports suggest that Dempsey was captured by the Russian FSB, before being killed in actio ..read more
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Isaiah “IQ” Quintabe returns for another go-around in Fixit, the lastest page-turning mystery from Joe Ide.
Ide opens his latest novel, the sixth in the series set after Smoke (2021), with the kidnapping of Grace. After working her shift at a taco truck, Grace, Isaiah’s first love, heads home to call IQ. The two have a complicated relationship and aren’t currently together, but Grace decided Isaiah is worth fighting for, and plans to reach out to him in hopes of getting back together.
Sadly, she never get’s the chance.
After parking her car at home, she gets out, and is suddenly atta ..read more