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The best political thriller book reviews. Political thriller is a broad term that may include espionage, political conspiracies, the assassination of political leaders and other sinister tactics that have high-stakes consequences for governments and civilizations.

Main Street Fringe, a First-Rate Conspiracy Thriller by Matthew Lavoie

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The Bottom Line: An electrifying debut that deftly combines the twists of a first-rate conspiracy thriller with the moral complexity of vigilante justice. opens with Virginia State Police detective Theo Barnes watching a sting operation snap shut around State Senator Royce Andrews, who has arrived at a seedy motel expecting to have sex with a fourteen-year-old girl. Andrews is arrested and the scandal erupts into

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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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The Secessionist’s Wife, a Timely Political Thriller by Wolf Bahren

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The Bottom Line: A timely, fast-moving political thriller in which a staged terror attack becomes the opening move in an attempted coup against America. As The Secessionist’s Wife opens, American investigative journalist Anna Jones is accepting a press award in Washington when reports arrive of a devastating terrorist attack on Fort Riley, Kansas. She and boyfriend Viktor Simonson, a fellow reporter at the New York

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Burn Everything…Then Forget It, an Audacious Conspiracy Thriller by Boston Teran

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The Bottom Line: Boston Teran has reinvented the conspiracy thriller as a rapid-fire collage of memory, love and violence. Audacious, original and unforgettable. In the opening pages of Boston Teran’s new novel, a car bomb explodes outside a Bronx diner. Debris rains across the front of the diner, and hundreds of photographs scatter through the scene. One of the photographs shows an abandoned building covered

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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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Miriam in the Shadows, an Electrifying World War II Spy Thriller

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The Bottom Line: An electrifying World War II spy thriller that is deeply atmospheric, propulsive and profoundly human. Set during World War II, Miriam in the Shadows opens as Jewish Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent Miriam Maduro plunges toward Nazi-occupied northern France. Her mission is to infiltrate a heavily fortified enemy installation linked to Germany’s secret rocket program and sabotage it from within. The task is made all the more harrowing

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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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The Florentine Entanglement, a Stylish Cold War Thriller by Pamela Norsworthy

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The Bottom Line: Cold War thrillers are rarely this stylish and sophisticated. Norsworthy understands that the most dangerous secrets can be hidden inside a marriage. The Florentine Entanglement opens at a surprise 40th birthday party in Washington, DC, where Eleanor Bentley performs gratitude for a roomful of friends, neighbors and government-adjacent acquaintances. Her husband, Talbot, a seasoned CIA officer, arranged the evening as a public

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The Pope Must Die, a Vatican Conspiracy Thriller by Donald Anderson

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The Bottom Line: A Vatican thriller with real nerve, driven by a sinister pope and a conspiracy of terrifying reach. Fans of Daniel Silva will find much to admire.  In Donald Anderson’s The Pope Must Die, the newly elevated Sixtus VI speaks with the ease of a man who knows his papacy has been engineered. In the opening pages, Anderson makes plain that the new American

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