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Through essays contributed by modern thriller writers such as David Baldacci, Lee Child, Sandra Brown, and many others, this book explores 100 works of suspense from the ancient world to modern times.
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Table of Contents
Welcome to the world of thrillers / by David Hewson
One hundred must-read thrillers / by David Morrell, Hank Wagner
Theseus and the Minotaur (1500 B.C.) / Lee Child
Homer's The Iliad and the Odyssey (7th century B.C.) / William Bernhardt
Beowulf (between 700 and 1000 A.D.) / Andrew Klavan
William Shakespeare's Macbeth (1605-1606) / A.J. Hartley
Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719-1722) / David Liss
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus (1818) / Gary Braver
James Fenimore Cooper's The last of the Mohicans (1826) / Rick Wilber
Edgar Allan Poe's The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) / Katherine Neville
Alexandre Dumas' The count of Monte Cristo (1845) / Francine Mathews
Wilkie Collins's The woman in white (1860) / Douglas Preston
H. Rider Haggard's King Solomons mines (1885) / Norman L. Rubenstein
Robert Louis Stevenson's The strange case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1886) / Sarah Langan
Anthony Hope's The prisoner of Zenda (1894) / Michael Palmer
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) / Carole Nelson Douglas
H.G. Wells's The war of the worlds (1898) / Steven M. Wilson
Rudyard Kipling's Kim (1901) / Tom Grace
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The hound of the Baskervilles (1901) / Laura Benedict
Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness (1902) / H. Terrell Griffin
Erskine Childers's The riddle of the sands (1903) / Christine Kling
Jack London's The sea wolf (1904) / Jim Fusilli
Baroness Emma Orczy's The scarlet pimpernel (1905) / Lisa Black
Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan of the apes (1912) / W. Craig Reed
Marie Belloc Lowndes's The lodger (1913) / James A. Moore
John Buchan's The thirty-nine steps (1915) / Janet Berliner
E. Phillips Oppenheim's The great impersonation (1920) / Justin Scott
Richard Connell's "The most dangerous game" (1924) / Katherine Ramsland
W. Somerset Maugham's Ashenden, or, the British agent (1928) / Melodie Johnson Howe
P.G. Wodehouse's Summer lightning (1929) / R.L. Stine
Edgar Wallace's King Kong (1933) / Kathleen Sharp
Lester Dent's Doc Savage : the man of bronze (1933) / Mark T. Sullivan
James M. Cain's The postman always rings twice (1934) / Joe R. Lansdale
Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca (1938) / Allison Brennan
Agatha Christie's And then there were none (1939) / David Morrell
Eric Ambler's A coffin for Dimitrios (1939) / Ali Karim
Geoffrey Household's Rogue male (1939) / David Morrell
Helen Macinnes's Above suspicion (1941) / Gayle Lynds
Cornell Woolrich's "Rear Window" (1942) / Thomas F. Monteleone
Vera Caspary's Laura (1943) / M.J. Rose
Kenneth Fearing's The big clock (1946) / Lincoln Child
Graham Greene's The third man (1950) / Rob Palmer
Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a train (1950) / David Baldacci
Mickey Spillane's One lonely night (1951) / Max Allan Collins
Jim Thompson's The killer inside me (1953) / Scott Nicholson
Ernest K. Gann's The high and the mighty (1953) / Ward Larsen
Jack Finney's Invasion of the body snatchers (1955) / James Rollins
Hammond Innes's The wreck of the Mary Deare (1956) / Matt Lynn
Ian Fleming's From Russia, with love (1957) / Raymond Benson
Alistair MacLean's The guns of Navarone (1957) / Larry Gandle
Richard Condon's The Manchurian candidate (1959) / Robert S. Levinson
Len Deighton's The IPCRESS file (1962) / Jeffery Deaver
Fletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey's Seven days in May (1962) / James Grady
Lionel Davidson's The rose of Tibet (1962) / Milton C. Toby
Richard Stark's (Donald E. Westlake's) The hunter aka Point blank (1962) Duane Swierczynski
John le Carré's The spy who came in from the cold (1963) / Denise Hamilton
Wilbur Smith's When the lion feeds (1964) / W.D. Gagliani
Evelyn Anthony's The rendezvous (1967) / Sandra Brown
Michael Crichton's The Andromeda strain (1969) / Josh Conviser
James Dickey's Deliverance (1970) / Terry Watkins
Frederick Forsyth's The day of the jackal (1971) / F. Paul Wilson
Brian Garfields's Death wish (1972) / John Lescroart
David Morrell's First blood (1972) / Steve Berry
Trevanian's The Eiger sanction (1972) / Lee Goldberg
Charles McCarry's The tears of autumn (1974) / Hank Wagner
Peter Benchley's Jaws (1974) / P.J. Parrish
William Goldman's Marathon man (1974) /Hank Wagner
James Grady's Six days of the condor (1974) / Mark Terry
Jack Higgins's The eagle has landed (1975) / Zoë Sharp
Joseph Wambaugh's The choirboys (1975) / James O. Born
Clive Cussler's Raise the Titanic! (1976) / Grant Blackwood
Ira Levin's The boys from Brazil (1976) / Daniel Kalla
Robin Cook's Coma (1977) / CJ Lyons
Ken Follett's Eye of the needle (1978) / Tess Gerritsen
Ross Thomas's Chinaman's chance (1978) / John D. MacDonald's The green ripper (1079) / J.A. Konrath
Justin Scott's The shipkiller (1079) / Lawrence Light
Robert Ludlum's The Bourne identity (1980) / Linda L. Richards
Eric Van Lustbader's The ninja (1980) / J.D. Rhoades
Thomas Harris's Red dragon (1981) / Bev Vincent
Jack Ketchum's Off season (1981) / Blake Crouch
Thomas Perry's The butcher's boy (1982) / Robert Liparulo
Tom Clancy's The hunt for red October (1984) / Chris Kuzneski
F. Paul Wilson's The tomb (1984) / Heather Graham
Andrew Vachss's Flood (1985) / Barry Eisler
Stephen King's Misery (1987) / Chris Mooney
Nelson DeMille's The charm school (1988) / J.T. Ellison
Dean Koontz's Watchers (1988) / Lee Thomas
Katherine Neville's The eight (1988) / Shirley Kennett
Petrer Straub's Koko (1988) / Hank Wagner
Johns Grisham's The firm (1991) / M. Diane Vogt
R.L. Stine's Silent night (1991) / Jon Land
James Patterson's Along came a spider (1992) / Mary SanGiovanni
Stephen Hunter's Point of impact (1993) / Christopher Rice
Johns Lescroart's The 13th juror (1994) / Karna Small Bodman
Sandra Brown's The witness (1995) / Deborah LeBlanc
David Baldacci's Absolute power (1996) / Rhodi Hawk
Gayle Lynds's Masquerade (1996) / Hank Phillippi Ryan
Lee Child's Killing floor (1997) / Marcus Sakey
Jeffery Deaver's The bone collector (1997) / Jeffrey J. Mariotte
Dan Brown's The Da Vinci code (2003) / Steve Berry .
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