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Action & Adventure Booklist
Page Modified: June 1, 2007
Action and Adventure titles from a variety of genres.
A list of books, many of which received at least one starred review (indicating a work of unusual merit) from the following review sources: Booklist (BL), Publisher's Weekly (PW), Kirkus, and Library Journal (LJ). Additional titles of interest may be included on this list. Titles are listed alphabetically by author.
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
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