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Action & Adventure Booklist

 

Action and Adventure titles from a variety of genres.

 

Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.

Mystery & Suspense

• Trojan Odyssey
  Author: Cussler, Clive
  Publisher: Putnam $ 27.95 ISBN: 0399150803 Date: 2003
  Kirkus
  An audacious work from Cussler--Dirk Pitt, one of the most popular heroes in adventure fiction is back, battling his most dangerous foe--with help from a very unexpected source.
  Updated 10.8.03
• Crisis Four
  Author: McNab, Andy
  Publisher: Ballantine $ 24.95 ISBN: 0345428072 Date: 2001
  PW
  Crisis Four is the stunning sequel to the #1 British bestseller Remote Control by the veteran commando-turned-author whose true-to-life fictional accounts of special forces rip the lid off the super-secret world of terrorism and black ops.
  Updated 6/27/00
• Temple
  Author: Reilly, Matt
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312266596 Date: 2001
  Kirkus
  This sensational new action/adventure blockbuster is by the bestselling author of Ice Station. When the U.S. Army beaks through the doors of an Incan temple to remove an idol carved out of a strange stone--a stone that could be used in a terrifying new weapon--they discover they have broken a golden rule. Some doors are meant to be unopened.
  Updated 12/5/00
• Area 7
  Author: Reilly, Matthew
  Publisher: St Martins Dunne $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312266855 Date: 2002
  Kirkus
  Lt. Shane "Scarecrow" Schofield returns in the electrifying sequel to the bestselling Ice Station.On a routine inspection of bases in the Nevada desert, he escorts the President to the super-secret Area 7, where rogue Air Force commander Caesar Russell waits to launch his master plan to wrest away control of the country.
  Updated 12/6/01
• The Ice Curtain
  Author: White, Robin
  Publisher: Delacorte $ 24.95 ISBN: 0385333161 Date: 2002
  LJ PW
  From the bestselling author of Siberian Light comes a breathtaking new thriller, a story of murder, deceit, and diamonds set in Russia's far north.
  Updated 2/1/02

Fiction

• The Devil's Oasis
  Author: Bull, Bartle
  Publisher: Carroll & Graf $ 25 ISBN: 0786708441 Date: 2001
  PW
  The master storyteller and author of A Cafe on the Nile presents a new tale of swaggering adventure, romance, and espionage set in war-torn North Africa. There, against the massive force of Rommel's Afrika Korps, a young English hussar named Wellington Rider fights beside the French Foreign Legion.
  Suggested Reading: Historical Fiction Stars | World Wars Stars
  Updated 2/21/01
• Ghost Eater
  Author: Highland, Frederick
  Publisher: St Martins $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312306717 Date: 2003
  LJ
  A tale of courage, command, and self-discovery vividly re-creates the tapestry of the 19th-century East Indies, even as it immerses readers in a harrowing, suspenseful river journey.
  Suggested Reading: Historical Fiction Stars
  Updated 8.14.03