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The best action thriller book reviews. Action thrillers feature extensive fight scenes, battle scenarios or high-intensity adventure.

The Final Second, a Fiercely Entertaining Serial-Killer Thriller by Jim De La Vega

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The Bottom Line: A fiercely entertaining serial-killer thriller that weaponizes doubt and never lets justice off the hook. The Final Second opens where most serial-killer thrillers would end: in a Georgia execution chamber. Eddie Ray Calhoone, convicted of seven murders attributed to the notorious Blood Smile Killer, is put to death as Sheriff Parker Chord watches. The victims were shot through the heart, each left

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Carnivores, a Relentless Survival Thriller by Jason Melby

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The Bottom Line: A relentless survival thriller with real bite. Melby shows us what happens when nature stops playing by the rules, and for once, a terrifying reptile nightmare feels like it could actually happen. Highly recommended. Carnivores opens as herpetology professor Christina Flannagan and teaching assistant Kyle Daily enter the Florida Everglades to recapture Henry, a tagged Burmese python used in her ongoing study

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Westwind, a Meticulously Plotted WWII Thriller by Karen K. Brees

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The Bottom Line: A meticulously plotted WWII thriller where the battle for Britain moves from the skies to Whitehall.  Set during World War II, opens as London is in disarray. German bombing raids have turned it into a city of blackouts, rubble and shortages. Against that instability, MI6 agent Katrin Nissen faces an enemy operating inside Britain’s own institutions. Katrin’s husband and fellow intelligence operative,

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Devil’s Tango, a Relentless Action Thriller by D.R. Berlin

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The Bottom Line: John Wick fans will love Devil’s Tango, a relentless action thriller about the secrets powerful people will kill to protect. D.R. Berlin’s second series entry begins at the funeral of Ryan Manning, a financial specialist who was eliminated after uncovering evidence about the covert syndicate known as The Third Estate. The murder was orchestrated by the syndicate through another network known as

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The Woulfe Intrusion, a Sophisticated Spy Thriller by Tim Gallows

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The Bottom Line: A fast, intelligent and emotionally sophisticated spy thriller debut. Fans of Saul Herzog and Mark Greaney will devour The Woulfe Intrusion and hope for an entire series. The Woulfe Intrusion opens in Lucerne, where Noah Turner, a young American cybersecurity engineer and penetration tester, races through the snow to the railway station, disables its cameras, makes a coded farewell call to his

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Gorgons, a Wildly Imaginative Archeology Thriller by Ox Devere

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The Bottom Line: A wildly imaginative archeology thriller that makes Greek myth feel new and dangerous. Ox Devere’s third Ridley Samaras thriller has the kind of premise that sells itself: what if the myth of Perseus and Medusa was not myth at all? On a sun-blasted dig site above the Aegean, Gorgons wastes no time turning archaeology into danger. The breakthrough comes when Dr. Nasrin

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Red Horizons, a Timely and Irresistible Military Thriller by James Bultema

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The Bottom Line: Timely and irresistible. Bultema’s authoritative command of military hardware, tactics and high-stakes geopolitics makes tomorrow’s war feel dangerously near. Red Horizons, the latest book in James Bultema’s Sea of Red series, begins as North Korean Captain Kim Min-jun runs for the South Korean border with a USB drive sewn into his uniform. He carries evidence of the Silent Tide Initiative, a plan

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Blackout, an Unnerving and Explosive Terrorism Thriller by J. Luke Bennecke

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The Bottom Line: A truly unnerving and explosive terrorism thriller that deftly turns modern infrastructure into a battlefield. Every single page feels dangerously plausible. As Blackout opens, a private jet off the coast of Venezuela is serving as the command center for what appears to be a presidential assassination. Tracy Ciacchella, a billionaire power broker with a team of technicians and conspirators, is preparing a

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Arctic Fire, a Bruising Neo-Western Crime Thriller by Brian L. Reece

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The Bottom Line: A bruising neo-western crime thriller where greed, murder and frontier justice collide in rural Alaska. Perfect for fans of Taylor Sheridan and C.J. Box. Arctic Fire opens with Major Zoe Nichols standing between armed United States Marines and Afghan villagers after a weapons-cache discovery turns into a standoff. Ordered from afar to seize the weapons, Zoe instead removes her helmet and body

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FORT NIGHT, a Remarkable New Thriller by Howard Seaborne

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The Bottom Line: DM14 is terrific. Remarkable and rare for a series to still be this good fourteen books in.  Dark money, daring aerial maneuvers and impending fatherhood collide in a thriller that flies fast and hits hard.  The clock is ticking in FORT NIGHT, the fourteenth book in Howard Seaborne’s DIVISIBLE MAN series. But the primary countdown that persists throughout the novel isn’t related to a mission,

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