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Terrorism Booklist

 

Fiction (various genres) and Nonfiction about terrorist acts, terrorism and terrorists.

 

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

Fiction

• The Lion's Game
  Author: DeMille, Nelson
  Publisher: Warner $ 26.95 ISBN: 0446520659 Date: 2000
  PW
  Detective John Corey must somehow capture the world's most dangerous terrorist - a young Arab known as "The Lion" - who will stop at nothing in his quest for revenge against America for bombing Libya and killing his family.
  
• Night Fall
  Author: DeMille, Nelson
  Publisher: Warner $ 26.95 ISBN: 0446576638 Date: 2004
  Kirkus LJ
  Five years after the crash of Flight 800 two members of the Elite Anti-terrorist Task Force suspect it was no accident and they set out to recover the one piece of evidence to prove it: a videotape that shows a couple making love on the beach as the airliner crashes.
  Updated 10.7.04
• Innocent Blood
  Author: Dickey, Christopher
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster List Price: $23 ISBN: 0684842009 Date: 1997
  PW
  A fast-paced thriller by the author of With the Contras and Expats. Traveling to Bosnia to search for his family's roots, U.S. Army ranger Kurt Kurtovic discovers instead what he thinks is his place, his cause, his faith. The real enemy, Kurt comes to believe, is the United States, and the weapon he is given to fight it is as terrible as anything ever imagined by the wrath of God.
  
• Red Tide
  Author: Ford, G.M.
  Publisher: Morrow $ 23.95 ISBN: 0060554800 Date: 2004
  Kirkus Booklist
  Ford's latest action-packed, highly suspenseful mystery finds Frank Corso on a case where an investigation into a gruesome murder unravels a massive terrorist conspiracy--but in an unexpected way.
  Updated 6.15.04
• The Fall of the Sparrow
  Author: Hellenga, Robert
  Publisher: Scribner List Price: $ 24 ISBN: 0684850265 Date: 1998
  PW LJ Kirkus
  The critically acclaimed author of The Sixteen Pleasures establishes himself as a major literary talent with his beautifully crafted second novel - the story of a family's struggle to heal itself after the violent death of its oldest daughter. From the Advance Reading Copy.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
• Force Protection
  Author: Kent, Gordon
  Publisher: Delacorte $ 25 ISBN: 0385336292 Date: 2004
  Kirkus
  From Rules of Engagement to Hostile Contact, Gordon Kent has captivated readers with novels that combine authentic portrayals of global secret operations with the passions that go with them: the yearning for family and peace, the deceptions of agents in the field, and the extraordinary risks the bravest and best will take for a cause. His new suspense novel is vintage Kent: a heart-stopping tale of a terrorist strike, its explosive aftermath, and the struggle of special agents in a battle that is reshaping the globe.
  - Publisher Marketing.
  Updated 7.26.04
• The Protectors
  Author: Mahoney, Dan
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312284500 Date: 2002
  Booklist
  Detective Brian McKenna joins the Joint Terrorist Task Force to pursue a terrorist organization which has kidnapped Spain's ambassador to the United Nations from his New York residence. As the NYPD responds, a close friend of McKenna's in Spain is taken in a violent confrontation. It's up to McKenna to find the connection between the two kidnappings.
  Updated 8.13.02
• Blown
  Author: Mathews, Francine
  Publisher: Bantam $ 24 ISBN: 0553803301 Date: 2005
  LJ
  Using her firsthand expertise of international espionage, Mathews offers another suspense novel that blurs the line between fact and fiction. Caroline Carmichael returns in a tale of terror on the streets of Washington, D.C., where she must gamble her life to save her country.
  Suggested Reading: Spy Girls | Espionage
  Updated 5.4.05
• Fade
  Author: Mills, Kyle
  Publisher: St Martins $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312335776 Date: 2005
  PW
  In this new thriller by the bestselling author of Rising Phoenix, a secret department of Homeland Security tries to recruit a retired agent who is bitterly angry at the government he believes abandoned him.
  Updated 5.2.05
• Bel Canto
  Author: Patchett, Ann
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 25 ISBN: 0060188731 Date: 2001
  Kirkus
  From the bestselling author of The Magician's Assistant comes a marvelous novel of love, opera, and terrorism set in South America. Two couples, complete opposites, fall in love; sexual identities become confused; and a horrific imprisonment is transformed into an unexpected heaven on earth.
  Suggested Reading: Reading Group Stars | Music & Fiction
  Updated 4/20/01
• Remembrance Day
  Author: Porter, Henry
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 25 ISBN: 0684865491 Date: 2000
  LJ
  After witnessing a London bus explode, Constantine Lindow wakes up the next day to find himself in the hospital with two cops frowning down at him. To prove his innocence, he must locate a maniac who sets off bombs with nothing more than a cell phone.
  Updated 7.12.05
• Unknown Soldier
  Author: Seymour, Gerald
  Publisher: Overlook $ 24.95 ISBN: 1585676349 Date: 2005
  Kirkus LJ
  Intelligence agents hunt for the world's most lethal terrorist in this thrillingly suspenseful novel from a master of espionage fiction.
  Suggested Reading: Espionage
  Updated 2.7.05
• Prince of Fire
  Author: Silva, Daniel
  Publisher: Putnam $ 25.95 ISBN: 0399152431 Date: 2005
  PW
  A knife-edged thriller of astonishing intricacy and feeling, filled with exhilarating prose, this is Daniel Silva's finest novel yet. Gabriel Allon is pitted against a Palestinian mastermind, as hunter and hunted pursue each other across a landscape drenched with generations of blood.
  Suggested Reading: Espionage
  Updated 1.29.05
• Damascus Gate
  Author: Stone, Robert
  Publisher: Houghton Mifflin List Price: $ 26 ISBN: 0395665698 Date: 1998
  PW Booklist LJ
  National Book Award Finalist, NYTBR Notable List, Booklist Editors' Choice, PW Best Books List
  Set in Jerusalem, where violence, ecstasy, heresy, and salvation are all to be found, the latest novel by the author of Outerbridge Reach is simultaneously the story of a man's search for truth - or some version of it - and the story of a city where sanity is casually traded for faith. Christopher Lucas's investigation of religious lunatics who have fallen victim to "Jerusalem Syndrome" leads him to a series of colorful characters - and places him at the center of the world's next flashpoint.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars |
• After
  Author: Tristram, Claire
  Publisher: FSG $ 20 ISBN: 0374103909 Date: 2004
  Kirkus
  The thin line between love and hate is stretched to the limit in this mesmerizing fiction debut about an intense, erotic affair that veers into violence.
  Updated 2.10.04
• The Tunnel
  Author: Wager, Walter
  Publisher: Forge $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312864884 Date: 2000
  Booklist
  Terrorists seal one end of New York City's Lincoln Tunnel and place a missile at the other, threatening to activate it. Convinced that negotiating with the terrorists is a waste of time, Police Capt. Jake Malloy searches for their leader, knowing that the woman he loves - DEA agent Jo Velez - is in double danger.
  Updated 4/17/00.

Nonfiction

• The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism
  Author: Johnson, Haynes
  Publisher: Harcourt $ 26 ISBN: 0151010625 Date: 2005
  PW
  Compelling narrative history, insightful political commentary, and intimate personal remembrance combine to make The Age of Anxiety a vitally important look at Senator Joseph McCarthy and his 1950s anti-Communist crusade.
  Suggested Reading: McCarthyism
  Updated 7.25.05
• The Outlaw Sea
  Author: Langewiesche, William
  Publisher: FSG $ 23 ISBN: 0865475814
  PW
  With typically understated lyricism, Langewiesche explores international waters--the last radically free place on Earth--and the licit and illicit enterprises that flourish in the privacy afforded by its horizons.
  Suggested Reading: Sea Stories
  Updated 3.29.04
• Living Terrors: What America Needs to Know to Survive the Coming Bio-Terror Catastrophe
  by Osterholm, Michael T.
  Publisher: Delacorte $ 24.95 ISBN: 038533480x Date: 2000
  Kirkus
  The nation's leading expert on biological terrorism reveals our startling vulnerability to bio-weapon attack and presents a strategy for protecting ourselves and our way of life from this unprecedented threat.