A Taste of Adventure

Spies

Spy’s Honor
Lyall, Gavin.
A bittersweet look at the dawn of modern espionage. Captain Matthew Rankin, newly recruited to the nascent Secret Service Bureau, tracks a notorious anarchist across the European continent.

Berling Game, Mexico Set, London Match
Deighton, Len.
A suspense-filled trilogy by a master of the genre. Serpentine plots, breakneck pace and believable characters make this trilogy among the best in the field. Featured is a sardonic hero with believable motivations and a sharp wit.

Redeye
Aellen, Richard.
The mysterious psychic communication of twins is here explored with sensitivity and suspense. Journalist Paul Stafford’s world turns upside down when the CIA tells him that the dream-inspired murder stories he has written are, in fact, recountings of real-life hits on American intelligence agents.

Red Ink
Dinallo, Greg.
A shipping container on its way south on I-95 with $2 billion to be laundered, a dissident Russian journalist, a beautiful US Treasury Special Agent, a Moscow Mafia casino owner and an American entrepreneur . . . with a mixture like this, you can expect suspense, action and some surprises.

Bomb Grade
Freemantle, Brian.
British Agent Charlie Muffin is on the trail of a missing 250 kilograms of weapons grade uranium & plutonium in the streets of Mafia-controlled Moscow.

Assassin
Hagberg, David.
Russia is in chaos and many are in favor of turning back the clock. When powerful men ruled, you could count on them to keep starvation away. Ex-CIA officer Kirk McGarvey is intent on preventing the rise of another dictator and the end of free Russia.

Copperhead
Cornwell, Bernard.
It is the summer of 1862 and the northern army is threatening Richmond. Nate Starbuck is accused of being a Yankee spy, and to discover who the real spy is, Starbuck must undertake a hazardous ride through Union lines. This sequel to REBEL puts the reader into the thick of the action at several famous Civil War battles.

One-Eyed Kings
Cohen, William H.
The Israeli Ambassador to France is shot down on the streets of paris. An American senator is murdered in his Georgetown bedroom. An investigative reporter, an Intelligence Committee member and a beautiful Mossad agent look for the link between these two deaths.

A Wild Justice
Thomas, Craig.
A multinational company with a mysterious Vietnam connection is thriving under the leadership of Billy Grainger. When Billy is killed and ex-CIA agent John Lock seeks the killer, conspiracies appear from Afghanistan to East Asia and beyond.

The Spirit Team
Wager, Walter.
A North African dictator has gotten his hands on a deadly, contagious micro-organism named Barcelona Delta. The Spirit Team, made up of officially “dead” espionage agents, must find the biological weapons lab and destroy Barcelona Delta.

Burning the Apostle
Granger, Bill.
Spymaster Devereaux turns from international intrigue to untangle a nightmare web of conflict within the U.S. Radical environmentalists, nuclear power plants, mysterious Lenanese financial sources, and a playboy Senator are all part of this masterpiece of suspense.

The Last Six-Million Seconds
Burdette, John.
A triple homicide in hong Kong on the eve of the turnover to Chinese control is investigated by Chief Inspector Chan Sui-Kai. Chan finds that the Coast Guard and an outside agency are opposing his investigation.

Zero Minus Ten
Benson, Raymond.
A “new” James Bond, by the director of the Ian Fleming Foundation. With 10 days of British sovereignty left, Bond is sent to Hong Kong to investigate three suspicious deaths.

The Fires of Midnight
Land, John.
Seventeen hundred shoppers and employees at a Massachusetts mall are dead, killed by an unknown, lethal bacterium. An infectious diseases expert and an ex-CIA operative must find the source of this deadly plague before it falls into the wrong hands.

On Land, On the Sea, or In the Air

Black Light
Hunter, Stephen.
Bob Lee Swagger’s father was a state trooper, gunned down by two robbers while Bob Lee was a child. Forty years later, a young writer has questions about that death and persuades Swagger to investigate the old crime, and make peace with the father he never knew.

The Ten Thousand
Coyle, Harold.
Europe erupts in flames and the American Army is no longer just keeping the peace, but is drawn inexorably into a shooting war. A plausible, frightening scenario is brought to authentic life.

Scorpian Strike
Nance, John J.
In Iraq during the Gulf War, it is learned that Saddam Hussein could achieve a breakthrough in biological warfare. Air Force Colonel Will Westerman commandeers a passing C-141 transport to fly a mission into Iraq to destroy an underground lab where an artificial virus was created.

Targets of Opportunity
Weber, Joe.
Marine aviator brad Austin is recruited by the CIA during the Vietnam War. Disguised as a Russian pilot, he must fly a MIG jet behind enemy lines. If he fails, the U.S. government will deny any involvement.

Stolen Thunder
Axton, David.
When a group of ex-military personnel steals an obsolete B52 from a base in Arizona and flys it to a Libyan terrorist training camp, the Air Forces of Nato, Russia and Libya all attempt to intercept the vigilante crew.

Option Delta
Marchinko, Richard and John Weisman.
The seventh in the Rogue Warrior series, Option Delta pits the Navy SEALS against a wild mix of Neo-Nazis, Russian mobsters, Middle Eastern terrorists and assorted Eastern European skinheads.

Persian Horse
Iverson, Marc.
When a band of Iranians hijacks the Navy frigate USS Bulkeley in the Persian Gulf, Lt. Commander John Stewart must find a way to foil the hijacking while saving the lives of his crew.

Drink with the Devil
Higgins, Jack.
In 1985, off the northwest coast of England, a seagoing barge sank with a hundred million pounds of gold bullion aboard. Ten years later, British and American authorities receive information about the whereabouts of the gold and about a sinister group trying to retrieve the lost fortune.

The Steel Albatross
Carpenter, Scott.
Renegade navy fighter pilot Rick Tallman is given one more chance and begins training as a Navy SEAL. When rogue elements of the Russian military launch Project Oblivion, Rick is given command of the experimental submarine Albatross and sent to the Pacific on a life or death mission.

Phoenix Sub Zero
Dimercurio, Michael.
The United Islamic Front is fighting a war against the United Nations. With a land-based force headed by a Navy SEAL team, the Green Berets and the U.S.S. Seawolf, the U.N. fights back.

Shock Wave
Cussler, Clive.
From Australia to Western Canada, and from an 1856 British clipper ship to an Antarctic cruise ship, this action-packed Cussler classic is a wide-ranging race against the clock with a shocker finish.

The Black Sea
Setlow, Richard.
A timely sea adventure that explores the clash between the might of the West and the mysterious cultures of the Far East and the fundamentalist Muslim World.

The Commodore
O’Brian Patrick.
The seventeenth in the acclaimed Aubrey Maturin series of naval tales, The Commodore takes place largely on land, but when Maturin is sent on a bizarre mission to the Gulf of Guinea, another thrilling fleet action is in the making.

Future

Orbit
Block, Thomas H.
A hypersonic super liner has been sabotaged, the rocket engines deliberately jammed wide open. Over 100 terrified passengers are flying too fast and too high, going into earth orbit as the oxygen levels fall and the NASA ground crew races to launch a rescue shuttle…

Choosers of the Slain
Cobb, James H.
On a frigid fall morning in 2006, a sudden attack on a British scientific outpost in Antarctica opens an invasion of the seventh continent. The world’s first ocean-going stealth warship is called on to defend this last frontier.

When the Almond Tree Blossoms
Aikman, David.
A nightmarish vision of what the world might look like if today’s culture wars ever expand into revolution and nuclear confrontation.

Compiled by B.J. Seitzer, May 2000

Last Update: January 5, 2009