Great Expectations

Political Thrillers

  1. The Whole Truth
    Baldacci, David
    In this thriller, Nicolas Creel, the largest arms producer in the world, needs a war to make his products sell, so he hires Dick Pender's PR firm to set up a new "cold war" among Russia, the United States, and China.

  2. The Traitor
    Coonts, Stephen
    Sent to investigate a French spy agency director's covert investments in the Bank of Palestine, retired CIA agent Jake Grafton teams up with fellow operative Tommy Carmellini to uncover a plot to infiltrate the highest levels of Al Qaeda.

  3. The Gate House
    DeMille, Nelson
    When John Sutter's aristocratic wife killed her Mafia don lover, he left Long Island for London. Now, ten years later, a funeral brings him back. But it has brought others back, too.

  4. The Third Option
    Flynn, Vince
    Mitch Rapp, the CIA's top counterterrorism operative is sent out on his final mission. His target is a well-known German industrialist who has been selling highly sensitive equipment to Middle East terrorists.

  5. Man in the Middle
    Haig, Brian
    Army lawyer, Sean Drummond, investigates the suicide of a hawkish Washington defense official and uncovers the secrets that led to the war in Iraq.

  6. The Darkest Evening of the Year
    Koontz, Dean
    A young woman risks her own well-being to come to the aid of Nickie, a special golden retriever, unaware that she has drawn the attention of an unknown and ruthless enemy.

  7. The Book of Fate
    Meltzer, Brad
    A two-hundred-year-old code devised by Thomas Jefferson becomes the key to a present-day conspiracy at the highest levels of Washington and the power elite of Palm Beach.

  8. The Race
    Patterson, Richard North
    Can an honest man become president? A maverick candidate takes on his political enemies and the ruthless machinery of American politics.

  9. Red Chrysanthemum
    Rowland, Laura Joh
    Japan, 1698. Samurai sleuth Sano Ichiro knows that his position as the shogun's advisor exposes him to jealousy, but even he could not foresee that someone would murder the shogun's heir and try to frame Sano's wife Reiko for the crime.

  10. The Last Patriot
    Thor, Brad
    Navy SEAL turned covert Homeland Security operative Scot Horvath must race to locate an ancient secret that has the power to stop militant Islam dead in its tracks. High level officials, willing to use the deadly tools of espionage to promote their personal agendas, trigger an international incident of lethal proportions.