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Political Thrillers Crime Fiction Booklist
Page Modified: June 1, 2007
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 alphabetically by author. Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.
- The President's Assassin
Author: Haig, Brian
Publisher: Warner $ 25.95 ISBN: 0446576670 Date: 2005
Kirkus
With just three days to prevent the assassination of the President, Army lawyer Sean Drummond races the clock in the high-stakes countdown of his career.
Updated 1.5.05 - Red Jungle
Author: Harrington, Kent
Publisher: Dennis McMillan $ 30 ISBN: 0939767503 Date: 2004
Booklist
Red Jungle is set in a very near-future Guatemala, after coffee has tanked in the international markets, the 35-year long Civil War is "over," but most of the former communist insurgents have no jobs or prospects of getting any, the same situation as the now-unemployed coffee plantation workers. Into this sad milieu Russell Cruz-Price, half-Guatemalan (on his mother's side), half-American, returns to the country of his birth, as a journalist working for the Financial Times of London. - Publisher Marketing.
Suggested Reading: Hardboiled | Noir
Updated 2.7.05 - A Firing Offense
Author: Ignatius, David
Publisher: Random List Price: $23 ISBN: 0679448608 Date: 1997
PW 
Booklist
What's the worst mistake a journalist could make? Acclaimed novelist and award-winning journalist David Ignatious has written an authentic new thriller about a reporter who dances too closely with his sources in the CIA. - The Inside Ring
Author: Lawson, Michael
Publisher: Doubleday $ 24.95 ISBN: 0385515316 Date: 2005
Kirkus
After an assassination attempt on the president, an honest lawyer with strong political connections flies under the radar on a twisted path through the Secret Service, FBI, and Department of Homeland Security to uncover how security's inside ring has been compromised.
Updated 2.8.05 - Citizen Vince
Author: Walter, Jess
Publisher: Regan $ 24.95 ISBN: 0060394412 Date: 2004
Kirkus
From a highly acclaimed young novelist comes a story of witness protection, petty thievery, local politics and murder set against the turbulent backdrop of the 1980 presidential election.
Suggested Reading: Political Fiction
Updated 8.25.04
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