21+ Of Your Favorite Historical Thrillers
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From Warren Adler, the critically-acclaimed author of The War of the Roses, and James C. Humes, the Pulitzer Prize-nominated Churchill biographer, comes the bestselling WWII historical thriller.
Inspired by true events. World War II has ended. Stalin is bent on gobbling up Eastern Europe. Churchill is defeated as Prime Minister. When the KGB’s trained American-born
mole is sent to assassinate Churchill during his infamous speech in Missouri, Churchill’s sole loyal bodyguard Walter Thompson is the only one who can stop it. Will he make it in time? How do you stop an assassination? Now available on Audible.
Spying and politics and danger and government/crime shenanigans are obviously not modern inventions, which means we’ve got a whole sub-genre of historical fiction to enjoy: the historical thriller. We asked you to share your favorite political thrillers and you answered. Here are 21 of your favorites. Note: many of these authors, like Silva, Baldacci, and Flynn, are big-time writers in this genre: Absolute Power by David Baldacci The Alienist by Caleb Carr Berlin Noir by Philip Kerr Black Wind by F. Paul Wilson A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss A Death in Vienna by Daniel Silva Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield The Ghost by Robert Harris The God’s Eye View by Barry Eisler HHhH by Laurent Binet His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy The Inner Circle by Brad Meltzer The Insider Threat by Brad Taylor It’s About Time by Lyle Howard The Neon Lawyer by Victor Methos The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth Private Screening by Richard North Patterson The Short Drop by Matthew FitzSimmons Transfer of Power by Vince Flynn War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk
From Warren Adler, the critically-acclaimed author of The War of the Roses, and James C. Humes, the Pulitzer Prize-nominated Churchill biographer, comes the bestselling WWII historical thriller.
Inspired by true events. World War II has ended. Stalin is bent on gobbling up Eastern Europe. Churchill is defeated as Prime Minister. When the KGB’s trained American-born
mole is sent to assassinate Churchill during his infamous speech in Missouri, Churchill’s sole loyal bodyguard Walter Thompson is the only one who can stop it. Will he make it in time? How do you stop an assassination? Now available on Audible.
Spying and politics and danger and government/crime shenanigans are obviously not modern inventions, which means we’ve got a whole sub-genre of historical fiction to enjoy: the historical thriller. We asked you to share your favorite political thrillers and you answered. Here are 21 of your favorites. Note: many of these authors, like Silva, Baldacci, and Flynn, are big-time writers in this genre: Absolute Power by David Baldacci The Alienist by Caleb Carr Berlin Noir by Philip Kerr Black Wind by F. Paul Wilson A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss A Death in Vienna by Daniel Silva Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield The Ghost by Robert Harris The God’s Eye View by Barry Eisler HHhH by Laurent Binet His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy The Inner Circle by Brad Meltzer The Insider Threat by Brad Taylor It’s About Time by Lyle Howard The Neon Lawyer by Victor Methos The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth Private Screening by Richard North Patterson The Short Drop by Matthew FitzSimmons Transfer of Power by Vince Flynn War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk
