Best of
Thriller

1986

Red Storm Rising


Tom Clancy - 1986
    "Allah!"With that shrill cry, three Muslim terrorists blow up a key Soviet oil complex, creating a critical oil shortage that threatens the stability of the USSR.To offer the effects of this disaster, members of the Politburo and the KGB devise a brilliant plan of diplomatic trickery - a sequence of events designed to pit the NATO allies against each other - a distraction calculated to enable the Soviets to seize all the oil in the Persian Gulf.But as this spellbinding story of international intrigue and global politics nears its climax, the Soviets are faced with another prospect, one they hadn't planned on: a full-scale conflict in which nobody can win.

Flight of the Intruder


Stephen Coonts - 1986
    Former Navy flyer Stephen Coonts gives an excellent sense of the complexities of modern air raids and how nerve-wracking it is, even for the best airmen, to technically solve sudden problems over and over, knowing that even a twist of fate like a peasant wildly firing a rifle from a field could wipe out the crew. Grafton alternates between remorse over the fate of his unseen Vietnamese victims on the ground and a gung-ho "let's win this war" sentiment that lashes at both policymakers who select less-than-important targets for the dangerous missions and advocates for peace back in the States.

Past Caring


Robert Goddard - 1986
    Martin is shown the leather-bound journal of another ruined man, former British cabinet minister Edwin Strafford.Martin is offered a job - to return to England and investigate the rise and fall of Strafford, an ambitious young politician whose downfall, in 1910, is as mysterious as the strange deaths that still haunt his family.Martin is intrigued. Strafford resigned at the height of his career, disappearing from the public eye. The woman he loved, for whom he was willing to sacrifice everything, suddenly and coldly rejected him. All the reasons for his fall from grace are shrouded in darkness.Martin's investigations trigger a violent series of events, throwing him straight into the path of those who believed they had escaped punishment for crimes long past but never paid for ... And Martin himself may find that he must risk his life to discover the truth.

The Bourne Supremacy. Part 1 of 2 (Jason Bourne, #2.1)


Robert Ludlum - 1986
    2 cassettes.

Strangers


Dean Koontz - 1986
    The six begin to seek each other out as puzzling photographs and messages arrive, indicating that the cause may lie in a forgotten weekend stay at an isolated Nevada motel. Koontz has topped a fine roster of horror and suspense novels with an almost unbearably suspenseful page-turner. His ability to maintain the mystery through several plot twists is impressive, as is his array of believable and sympathetic characters. With its masterful blend of elements of espionage, terror, and even some science fiction, Strangers may be the suspense novel of the year.

A Perfect Spy


John le Carré - 1986
    Who is he? Who was he? Who owns him? Who trained him? Secrets of state are at risk. As the truth about Pym gradually emerges, the reader joins Pym's pursuers to explore the unsettling life and motives of a man who fought the wars he inherited with the only weapons he knew, and so became a perfect spy.

Night of the Fox


Jack Higgins - 1986
    Wounded and adrift for days, he washes ashore on the German-occupied island of Jersey. The news spreads panic through the Allied high command: Kelso knows the time and place of the invasion. He must be rescued -- or silenced. A British professor turned Nazi impersonator and a young Jersey girl posing as his mistress set off to find Kelso in the fiercely guarded island fortress. The pair join a deadly game of wits that they must win....or perish in the darkness of the "Night of the Fox"

The Ludlum Triad: The Holcroft Covenant / The Matarese Circle / The Bourne Identity


Robert Ludlum - 1986
    The first collection of Ludlum's works ever to be published, this omnibus contains three of his most famous and bestselling thrillers, The Holcroft Covenant, The Matarese Circle, and The Bourne Identity, unavailable in hardcover elsewhere.

Pursuit


James Stewart Thayer - 1986
    . . Brutal, brisk, and believable . . . . The finale sings." -- New York Daily News.A strategy born of desperation: an assassination to end the war. Only one event can turn the tide. Hitler believes that the death of one man—Franklin Delano Roosevelt—will save Nazi Germany. From a prisoner of war camp near Fort Lewis, Washington, where 50,000 German soldiers are interned, Wehrmacht Captain Kurt Monck—a man of frightening resources with ruthless intelligence whose devious determination is sparked by Berlin’s orders via secret channels to escape the camp and head east. Monck’s trail is picked up by U.S. Secret Service agent John Wren, who hunts Monck as the German nears Franklin Roosevelt’s armored train en route to the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Monck’s only aid comes from his reluctant accomplice Margaret Bayerlein, a widow who provokes a haunting triangular relationship. Pursuit evokes the American home front during the war, as well as historic figures such as J. Edgar Hoover and President Roosevelt. The manhunt crosses the country, and Monck, Wren, and Roosevelt finally meet in an electrifying conclusion.Heart-pounding suspense for readers who love the taut thrillers of Jeffrey Deaver and Frederick Forsyth.“I simply could not put it down.” -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Edgar Allan Poe: The Critical Heritage


Ian Walker - 1986
    Noted for the macabre and pathological element of his works. Writings include: The Raven and other poems, Tamerlane and other poems. Volume covers the period 1846-1892.

The Hunters


Richard Townshend Bickers - 1986
    The Germans are about to take everyone by surprise with an early launch of their spring offensive. There is a feeling that the war simply cannot go on for much longer, but yet Allied ground is being lost and key towns retaken by the Germans. In this concluding volume of the Victory Trilogy, the story sweeps the reader along on the crest of a wave of thrilling air battles and the reverses and triumphs of the Allied forces in the concluding months of the Great War. The personal problems and inter-relationships of the well-established cast achieve their various resolutions; with many unexpected twists that arise convincingly from their own characters. With accurate historical detail, the book thrillingly depicts The Hunters’ adventures – their conquests in the air and on the ground – against the backdrop of the later development of the First World War. ‘The Hunters’ is a gripping military adventure story set during the tumultuous events of World War One. Praise for Richard Bickers: 'A thrilling page turner.' - Tom Kasey, best-selling author of 'Trade Off'. Richard Townsend Bickers volunteered for the RAF on the outbreak of the second world war and served, with a Permanent Commission, for eighteen years. He wrote a range of military fiction and non-fiction books, including ‘Torpedo Attack’, ‘My Enemy Came Nigh’ and ‘Summer of No Surrender’. Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent digital publisher. For more information on our titles please sign up to our newsletter at www.endeavourpress.com. Each week you will receive updates on free and discounted ebooks. Follow us on Twitter: @EndeavourPress and on Facebook via http://on.fb.me/1HweQV7. We are always interested in hearing from our readers. Endeavour Press believes that the future is now.

Never Come Back


John Mair - 1986
    It follows the misadventures of the urbane and heartless feature writer Desmond Thane, who falls for a femme fatale and becomes a desperate man pursued by the shadowy International Opposition. A sophisticated mixture of wit and thrilling mystery, with a morally corrupt hero at its heart, this is the first new edition of this page-turning classic since 1986.John Mair (1913-1942) was born in London in 1913, to journalist G H Mair and actress Marie O’Neill. He became a literary journalist and book reviewer writing for, among others, the New Statesman and News Chronicle. Never Come Back was his only novel, written in 1940 and published in October 1941. He joined the RAF during the Second World War, and was killed in an airborne training accident off the coast of Yorkshire in April 1942. He was also the author of a book about the Shakespeare forgeries by William Ireland, The Fourth Forger (1938).“Don’t on any account miss Never Come Back – lively, exciting, and intelligent” – The Observer “Vigour and imagination, and humour as well as nastiness: a drink with a kick in it” – Sunday Times “Mr Mair’s first-rate thriller... is a story of much ingenuity” – The Scotsman “This is an amusing book. I hope it will prove to be the starting point of a new kind of thriller” – George Orwell “Never Come Back still seems a remarkable performance, and for its time an astonishing one. Desmond Thane is the first anti-hero in crime fiction” – Julian Symons

Seeds Of Treason


Ted Allbeury - 1986
    Until he meets Anna, and the Russians find out... To Arthur Johnson,the least successful of British soldiers, his job is a degrading necessity - but he dreams of money and power. The law-abiding civil servant Eric Mayhew has found love, a love that drives him to cold-blooded betrayal when an unfair act of authority exposes his insecurity and he feels it threatens the adoration of his young bride. Jimbo Vick, the American mathematician, believes he too has found love, with a beautiful girl he can help as he has never before helped another human being. And Kuznetsov, the Russian spy, loves his country...They are all traitors. All play their parts in an intricate dance of betrayal and subterfuge, each convinced he acts alone, and for the best of reasons. Until the day of reckoning and truth, when some will escape, and some will survive - and some will die.

Takeover


Bart Davis - 1986
    A HIGHSTAKES INTERNATIONAL NIGHTMARE THE MACHINE In a dàcha outside Moscow, Vladmir Malenkov, the leader of the Soviet Union, lies near death, his frail body hooked up to every imaginable life-sustaining device...and to a computer more advanced and powerful than the world has ever known. THE CONSPIRACY Behind the walls of the Soviet Defense Ministry, the generals plan to seize control of the government—and to threaten a devastating nuclear strike against the United States. THE MAN When journalist Alexi Petrov’s scientist brother dies in his arms, his last breath an apocalyptic warning, Petrov is forced to confront the conspiracy—and quickly discovers its deadly implications. Unless he can reach Malenkov in time—before the computer programmed to protect him can be subverted—Russia may be doomed to nuclear winter...and the earth to perish. About the Author Bart Davis is the author of ten novels, five non-fiction books, two feature films, and a wide range of print articles. He is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science and Stony Brook University. His books have been published internationally, and translated into Japanese, Italian, Chinese, Norwegian, Hungarian, Bulgarian, German, Dutch, Portuguese, British, Spanish, and Korean. His novels include the five-book Peter MacKenzie submarine series and the bestselling A CONSPIRACY OF EAGLES. He has also written for the New York Times and NEWSDAY, and his work has appeared in “Psychology Today” and “People” magazine. Bart’s screenwriting credits include the feature film FULL FATHOM FIVE adapted from his novel; and the feature film LOVE OR MONEY. He lives with his family in New York.