Political Thrillers Crime Fiction Booklist

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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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