Action Thriller Books

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

Silent Cats by JD Wallace

Book Review: Silent Cats: Deadly Dance, a new Espionage Thriller by J.D. Wallace

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The Bottom Line: This emotionally gripping depiction of love, war and espionage is an excellent first installment in what is sure to be a terrific series. A must-read for fans of the hit TV show The Americans. J.D. Wallace’s new spy thriller is based upon the relationship between a real-life CIA Clandestine Operations Officer and his wife, a Mossad Kidon Katsa (For the uninitiated, Kidon […]

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The Apothecary by Marshall Chamberlain

Book Review: The Apothecary, a Nano-Technology Thriller by Marshall Chamberlain

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The Bottom Line: An electrifying, whip-smart reading experience about a rogue scientist whose lethal creations place the world at the brink of collapse. The Apothecary is a nano-technology thriller, exploring the heights of human degeneracy and the vile consequences of insane arrogance. Highly recommended. The follow-up to the first two books in Marshall Chamberlain’s excellent Ancestor Series pits the civilized world against Corey Parnevik, a brilliant but mentally deranged nanotechnologist. Parnevik’s talents have taken him to the forefront of top-secret

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Dont Go by Nikki Stern

Book Review: DON’T GO, an Assassination Thriller by Nikki Stern

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The Bottom Line: DON’T GO is a captivating assassination thriller featuring a sympathetic heroine that you can’t help but root for. On the surface, Suzanne Addison appears to live the charmed life of the one percent. Her Belgian-born husband, Bill, seems to have walked out of an Ian Fleming novel, complete with diamond cufflinks and the physique of a male model. The Addisons divide their

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Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas

Queen of Shadows, a new Throne of Glass series YA Thriller by Sarah J. Maas

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Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. But she’s at last returned to the empire-for vengeance, to rescue her once-glorious kingdom, and to confront the shadows of her past… She has embraced her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen. But before she can reclaim her throne, she must fight. She will fight for her cousin, a warrior prepared to die just to

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Book Review: Out Of Hell’s Kitchen, a Crime Thriller by John Hanzl

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The Bottom Line: An engrossing, atmospheric organized crime thriller that crackles with energy from the first page to the very last. Highly recommended. Luke Hawthorn’s world is crumbling around him. After his mother, an NCIS (National Criminal Intelligence Service) operative is killed in a mysterious house fire, he learns that she was investigating a new designer drug linked to the death of some 200 London

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Jack Reacher - Make Me by Lee Child

Make Me, a new Jack Reacher Thriller by Lee Child

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“Why is this town called Mother’s Rest?” That’s all Reacher wants to know. But no one will tell him. It’s a tiny place hidden in a thousand square miles of wheat fields, with a railroad stop, and sullen and watchful people, and a worried woman named Michelle Chang, who mistakes him for someone else: her missing partner in a private investigation she thinks must have

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Executive Reaction by CW Lemoine

Book Review: Executive Reaction, a new Political Thriller by C.W. Lemoine

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The Bottom Line: Every bit as addictive as TV’s 24 series, the fourth entry in the Spectre series evolves into a fast-paced, ripped-from-the-headlines political thriller. C.W. Lemoine’s globetrotting Spectre series has seen the action shift from the deserts of Iraq and Syria to the homeland. This fourth entry shifts much of the action to the Asia Pacific region. As the book opens, we find Cal “Spectre”

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Dragonflies by Andy Strake & Durrell Nelson

Book Review: Dragonflies, a Techno Thriller by Andy Straka (with Durrell Nelson)

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The Bottom Line: A delicious romp filled with jaw-dropping nanotechnology, clandestine military projects and a conspiracy that will keep you guessing until the final page. Recommended for both sci-fi and military thriller fans. Former Army helicopter pilot and Afghan war vet Raina Sanchez can’t seem to escape her past. How could she? Her dreams are filled with PTSD-driven flashbacks of the night she was shot

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Archangel Fallen by CW Lemoine

Book Review: Archangel Fallen, a Military Thriller by C.W. Lemoine

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The Bottom Line: Riveting, addictive and essential for any military thriller fan. The stakes in C.W. Lemoine’s Spectre series grow ever higher as pilot-turned-fugitive unearths a plot that threatens not only his life, but national security as well. When we first catch sight of fighter pilot Cal “Spectre” Martin and his trusty animal companion, Zeus, he’s hiding out in a Louisiana cabin. Framed for an

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Avoid. Negotiation. Kill.

Book Review: Avoid. Negotiate. Kill., a Military Thriller by C.W. Lemoine

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The Bottom Line: Military Thriller fans looking for the next Brad Thor have found their savior in C.W. Lemoine’s Spectre series. The second entry in Lemoine’s Spectre series is an emotionally charged affair with eye-popping air combat scenes. Recruited into a secret organization called Project Archangel, fighter pilot Cal “Spectre” Martin is mourning the apparent loss of his girlfriend and fellow pilot, Chloe Moss. The

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