Good Books to Read - Thriller and Adventure
Adventures and Thrillers are a genre of fiction in which tough, resourceful, but essentially ordinary heroes are pitted against villains determined to destroy them, their country, or the stability of the free world. The hero has to survive by his wits and skills.
Today, good thriller novels provide a rich literary feast embracing a wide variety of worlds - the law, espionage, action-adventure, casino underworld, medicine, police and crime, romance, history, politics, high-tech, and religion.
10 Classic Thriller & Adventure Novels to read
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Call of the Wild by Jack LondonWhat's it really like to struggle for existence against the cold harshness of a Canadian wilderness? How does it feel to search for gold amongst the pines and wolves, far from Civilisation? First published over a century ago, The Call of the Wild is damn good adventure book to read from Jack London. Based on his own experiences, The Call of the Wild is a story about never giving up in the frigid Alaskan Klondike.
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King Soloman's Mines by H. Rider HaggardWritten not in the last century, but the one before that, King Solomon’s Mines was one of the top selling tales of adventure in its day, and is still a good adventure book to read now. H. Rider Haggard’s spirited tale of elephant hunter Allan Quatermain and his quest for fabled treasure transcends mere adventure. In its portrayal of the then alliances and battles of white colonials and African tribesmen, King Solomon’s Mines “both shows us how the world was, back then, but also weaves in the daydreams of treasure hunting and exploration so many of us have as children.
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The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan DoyleSir Arthur Conan Doyle's thrilling adventure tale concerns an expedition by a big-game hunter and a journalist, to a a teeming jungle plateau high over the Amazon rain forest. Be entranced with the journey to the plateau and the wondrous discovery of many plants and animals that have long since become extinct elsewhere int he world. Encounters with a tribe of primitive man, and a Tyrannosaurus Rex are just some of the dangers the expedition faces.
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The Man Who Would be King by Rudyard Kiplingin this classic fictional tale, two con men plan to find a small town and become the kings of it. Through fighting and religious (mixed with masonry) mysteries, they get crowned kings and the savages think that these Englishmen are gods. Then one of the men arranges to get married to one of the natives. On his wedding day she bites him and draws blood. When the natives sees that he is bleeding they find out he is not a god (gods don't bleed because they are immortal). So they chop his head off and crucify the other man. The crucified man survives, and brings his story back to civlisation.
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The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasAlexandre Dumas’s epic novel of justice, retribution, and self-discovery—one of the most enduringly popular adventure tales ever written.
This beloved novel tells the story of Edmond Dantès, wrongfully imprisoned for life in the supposedly impregnable sea fortress, the Château d’If. After a daring escape, and after unearthing a hidden treasure revealed to him by a fellow prisoner, he devotes the rest of his life to tracking down and punishing the enemies who wronged him. |
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The 39 Steps by John BuchanRichard Hannay is on the run from the police, who suspect him of murdering the woman found stabbed to death in his London flat. Hannay is not only on the run from police but is also trying to find out the nature of a potential national security breach in an effort to clear his name. All he knows from the dead woman is that it has something to do with a man in a small town in Scotland, another man who has part of his pinky finger missing and something called the 39 steps. Hannay begins a journey of discovery all the while trying to elude both the police and the real murderers.
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From Russia with Love by Ian FlemingEvery major foreign government organization has a file on British secret agent James Bond. Now, Russia's lethal SMERSH organization has targeted him for elimination. SMERSH has the perfect bait in the irresistible Tatiana Romanova, who lures 007 to Istanbul promising the top-secret Spektor cipher machine. But when Bond walks willingly into the trap, a game of cross and double-cross ensues, with Bond both the stakes and the prize.
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Clear and Present Danger by Jack RyanThe president, unsatisfied with the success of his "war on drugs," decides that he wants some immediate success. But after John Clark's covert strike team is deployed to Colombia for Operation Showboat, the drug lords strike back taking several civilian casualties. The chief executive's polls plummet. He orders Ritter to terminate their unofficial plan and leave no traces. Jack Ryan, who has just been named CIA deputy director of intelligence is enraged when he discovers that has been left out of the loop of Colombian operations. Several of America's most highly trained soldiers are stranded in an unfinished mission that, according to all records, never existed. Ryan decides to get the men out.
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The Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownA murder in the silent after-hour halls of the Louvre museum reveals a sinister plot to uncover a secret that has been protected by a clandestine society since the days of Christ. The victim is a high-ranking agent of this ancient society who, in the moments before his death, manages to leave gruesome clues at the scene that only his granddaughter, noted cryptographer Sophie Neveu, and Robert Langdon, a famed symbologist, can untangle. The duo become both suspects and detectives searching for not only Neveu's grandfather's murderer but also the stunning secret of the ages he was charged to protect. Mere steps ahead of the authorities and the deadly competition, the mystery leads Neveu and Langdon on a breathless flight through France, England, and history itself.
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The Bourne Identity by Robert LudlumHe has no past. And he may have no future. His memory is blank. He only knows that he was flushed out of the Mediterranean Sea, his body riddled with bullets. There are a few clues. A frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the flesh of his hip. Evidence that plastic surgery has altered his face. Strange things that he says in his delirium— maybe code words. Initial: "J.B." And a number on the film negative that leads to a Swiss bank account, a fortune of four million dollars, and, at last, a name: Jason Bourne. But now he is marked for death, caught in a maddening puzzle, racing for survival through the deep layers of his buried past into a bizarre world of murderous conspirators—led by Carlos, the world's most dangerous assassin. And no one can help Jason Bourne but the woman who once wanted to escape him.
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