coolreads # Retro Books # The Forgotten

The Forgotten

Author: David Baldacci

Publisher: Macmillan

ISBN: 9780230762923

Year Published: 2012

A sequel to Zero Day, The Forgotten by David Baldacci, features John Puller, an Army CID agent who is disciplined, patriotic, and has a strong moral character. A combat veteran, Puller is the man the US Army relies on to investigate the toughest crimes facing the nation.

coolreads # Retro Books # The Cult of Osiris

The Cult of Osiris

Author: Andy McDermott

Publisher: Headline

ISBN: 9780755354634

Year Published: 2010

Andy McDermott's novel, The Cult of Osiris, is the fifth instalment in Nina Wilde and Eddie Chase's adventure. This time, the story is set in Egypt.

coolreads# The Hunt and the Kill @definitelybooks

The Hunt and the Kill

Author: Holly Watt

Publisher: Raven Books

ISBN: 9781526625540

The Hunt and the Kill is the third book from Holly Watt featuring acclaimed undercover journalist Casey Benedict.

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Shattered

Authors: James Patterson & James O. Born

Publisher: Century

ISBN: 9781529125344

NYPD master homicide investigator Michael Bennett is in Ireland, on honeymoon with his new bride, Mary Catherine when he receives repeated calls from his FBI agent friend. He decides that the calls can wait until he returns to New York.

coolreads# The 6:20 Man @definitelybooks

The 6:20 Man

Author: David Baldacci

Publisher: MacMillan

ISBN: 9781538719848

With the release of The 6:30 Man, prolific author David Baldacci has shown once again his ability to create a thriller that will appeal to his legion of fans. The book features former US Army Ranger Travis Devine who regularly takes the 6:20 commuter train to his workplace at Cowl and Comely, the New York firm where he is an investment analyst and where he's one of many “Burners”, or interns, who slave some 80 hours a week and more to stay on the job.

coolreads # Retro Books # The Secret Manc

The Secret Man

The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat

Author: Bob Woodward 

Publisher: Simon & Schuster 

ISBN: 978074328159

Year Published: 2005

This book was printed after former FBI second-in-command W. Mark Felt was unmasked as Watergate's enigmatic informant, Deep Throat - the mysterious source who had helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein break open the Watergate scandal in 1972. The secret had remained hidden for 33 years.

coolreads# Standing Alone @definitelybooks

Standing Alone

Author: Stephen Leather

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

ISBN: 9781529367508

A Navy SEAL Ryan French has gone rogue, selling his skills to the highest bidder as a professional assassin. He no longer cares who he kills so long as the price is right.

coolreads# Tom Clancy Zero Hour @definitelybooks

Tom Clancy Zero Hour

Author: Don Bentley

Publisher: Sphere

ISBN: 9781408727706

Jack Ryan Junior continues to soar to new heights, thanks to the clever plotting of New York Times bestselling author Don Bentley. Jack Jr. is the son of Clancy’s most famous character, Jack Ryan, who rose from intelligence analyst to operative to agency head to reluctantly entering politics and becoming president of the United States. The President’s son works for a secret, off-the-books government agency dubbed the Campus - the folks who tread on the bad guys when no one else can.

coolreads# Blown Back @definitelybooks

Blown Back

Authors: James patterson & Brendan DuBois

Publisher: Century

ISBN: 9781529125429

Six months into his first term, President Keegan Barrett, a former CIA director, tells Special Agents Liam Grey and Noa Himel that he’s tired of America being the world’s punching bag and wants to correct that insult, in this fast-moving thriller from James Patterson and Brendan DuBois.

coolreads# End of Days @definitelybooks

End of Days

Author: Brad Taylor

Publisher: Head of Zeus

ISBN: 9781838937812

In this riveting action-packed thriller from New York Times bestselling author and former special forces officer, Brad Taylor, Pike Logan must stop a deranged killer hell-bent on starting an international conflagration.

coolreads# The Bourne Sacrifice @definitelybooks

The Bourne Sacrifice

Author: Brian Freeman

Publication: Head of Zeus

ISBN: 9781803285870

Jason Bourne confronts a frightening enemy in The Bourne Sacrifice, the latest in the series created by Robert Ludlum and the third Bourne novel written by Brian Freeman.

coolreads # Retro Books # The Miko

The Miko

Author: Eric Van Lustbader

Publisher: Granada Publishing

ISBN: 0586056505

Year Published: 1985

When his best friend dies under suspicious circumstances, martial arts expert Nicholas Linnear vows revenge. And while he may look American, Linnear’s childhood spent in the dojos of Japan taught him that vengeance must never be hurried.

coolreads # Retro Books # The Bourne Initiative

The Bourne Initiative

Author: Eric Van Lustbader

ISBN: 9781786694256

Year Published: 2017

Publisher: Head of Zeus

The late Robert Ludlum’s most enduring creation, Jason Bourne, has lived one amazing life - both in the past, where he can’t remember and in the present where he is on the run from his killers.

coolreads# Retro Books # Last Snow

Last Snow

Author: Eric Van Lustbader

Publisher: Forge Book

ISBN: 9780765364364

Year Published: 2010

Jack McClure, aide and friend to the US president, is back at work after the death of his daughter and also the resolved kidnapping of President Carson's own daughter, Alli. However, Jack hasn't fully recovered; he's still in mourning and full of self-recrimination.

coolreads# Retro Books # Black Blade

Black Blade

Author: Eric van Lustbader

Publisher: Ballantine Books

ISBN: 0449221962

Year Published: 1993

In New York City, several brutal murders take place while in Washington, a plot conceived at the highest levels of American government is at work to bring the economic might of Japan to its knees.

coolreads# Retro Books # The Marks of Cain

The Marks of Cain

Author: Tom Knox

Publisher: HarperCollins

ISBN: 9780007342617

Year Published: 2010

After his grandfather died, David Martinez, an unattached London media lawyer, finds himself as alone as he’d felt his entire life. He has no other family and knows nothing about his roots. But soon after the funeral, he receives some shocking news: His seemingly poor grandfather has left him $2 million and a strange map, on the condition that he travels to Basque Country to meet with a man named Jose Garovillo.

coolreads# Retro Books # The Eye of God

The Eye of God

Author: James Rollins

Publisher: HarperCollins

ISBN: 9780062330192

Year Published: 2014

The book opens with a compelling synchronicity between the discovery of an ancient prophecy and the last transmission of a Nasa satellite nicknamed The Eye of God, launched to study a comet as it passes close to earth. Before it crashes, the satellite transmits a strange image of the eastern United States as a ruin of smoking craters.

coolreads# Retro Books # The Fifth Gospel

The Fifth Gospel

Author: Ian Caldwell

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

ISBN:9781501105258

Year Published: 2014

The Fifth Gospel is Ian Caldwell's masterful follow-up to his international bestseller The Rule of Four, featuring a lost gospel, a contentious relic, and a dying pope's final wish that propels two brothers - both Vatican priests - on a quest to reveal Christianity's greatest historical mystery.

coolreads# Retro Books # The Bourne Objective

The Bourne Objective

Author: Eric Van Lustbader

Publisher: Orion Books

IBSN: 9781409117834

Year Published: 2010

The Bourne Objective completes a trilogy revolving around the same mission. Following The Bourne Sanction and The Bourne Deception by Eric Van Lustbader, it picks up the action after Bourne witnessed the murder of his friend/comrade, art dealer Tracy Atherton. It turns out that Tracy was much more than an art dealer, and her involvement in the world of espionage put her in harm’s way, where even Bourne was unable to protect her.

coolreads# The Cook @definitelybooks

The Cook

Author: Ajay Chowdhury

Publisher: Penguin Random House

ISBN: 9781787303157

Kamil Rahman, once an up-and-coming detective in the Kolkata police force, is now back – and he’s just been given a promotion, sort of.

coolreads# Retro Books # The Expected One

The Expected One

Author: Kathleen McGowan

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

ISBN: 9780743295345

Katheen McGowan offers readers an intriguing page-turner of a story that combines her real research into the Mary Magdalene history, myth and legend with a plot that is almost as mystifying as a Dan Brown thriller. Suffice to say, it will definitely appeal to readers who want to know more about the controversies surrounding the alleged wife of Jesus and mother of his children.

coolreads# Retro Books # The Bourne Ultimatum

The Bourne Ultimatum

Author: Robert Ludlum

Publisher: Grafton Books

ISBN: 0586064567

Year Published: 1990

The Bourne Ultimatum delivers the epic Bourne versus Carlos  showdown that will grip fans of the Jason Bourne trilogy. Perhaps, this is what readers have been waiting for since the first book where the American agent David Webb assumed the role of a deadly assassin known as Jason Bourne in order to ensnare the real assassin, Carlos the Jackal.

coolreads# Retro Books # Price of Duty

Price of Duty

Author: Dale Brown

Publisher:  WilliamMorrow

ISBN: 9780062442000

Year Published: 2017

In a top-secret location deep in the Ural Mountains, Russian President Gennadiy Gryzlov has built Russia’s most dangerous weapon to enhance Russia's superiority in the country's long-running battle with the West.

coolreads# Upgrade @definitelybooks

Upgrade

Author: Blake Crouch

Publisher:  MacMillan

ISBN: 9781529045352

Upgrade is an amazing book that is totally immersive once you start reading it. Blake Crouch has an uncanny way of enticing the readers to his style of writing with his brilliant and equally impeccable story plot.

coolreads# Retro Books# Buried Secrets

Buried Secrets

Author: Joseph Finder

Publisher: St Martin’s Paperbacks

ISBN: 9781250000361

Year Published: 2012

When PI Nick Heller moves back to Boston to set up his own agency, he soon gets a call to take on an urgent case even closer to home than expected. Alexandra Marcus – teenage daughter of hedge fund titan Marshall Marcus, a close friend – has been kidnapped. But it’s no ordinary kidnapping – and it’s not even clear what the kidnapper wants. Alexa has been abducted by professionals and buried alive in an underground casket. A video camera is streaming her desperate pleas for help live over the internet. With only a limited supply of food and water, her time is quickly running out.

coolreads# Retro Books# Arctic Drift

Arctic Drift

Authors: Clive Cussler & Dirk Cussler

Publisher: Berkley Books

ISBN: 9780425233481

Year Published: 2009

Created in 1973, Dirk Pitt and his NUMA crew have travelled the seas of the world, battling some of the most devious villains ever encountered - all in defense of humanity and the world at large. Arctic Drift, their 20th outing, is a rollicking adventure set against the topical themes of global warming and the world’s oil and gas crisis.

coolreads# The Match @definitelybooks

The Match

Author: Harlan Coben

Publisher: Century

ISBN: 9781529135497

Thirty-five years ago, Wilde was found living alone in the woods at an age doctors estimated to be between six and eight years old. He had no memory of his parents. After his rescue, Wilde was raised by foster parents. The book opens with Wilde who is over 40 years old.

coolreads# Retro Books# The Moscow Vector

The Moscow Vector

Authors: Robert Ludlum & Patrick Larkin

Publisher: Orion Books

iSBN: 9780752877020

Year Published: 2005

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, many believe that Robert Ludlum and other spy craft authors would quietly fade away, since they have no credible villain to frame a novel around. These sceptics forgot that evil always exists and that it merely takes on different forms.

coolreads# Retro Books# The Eden Prophecy

The Eden Prophecy

Author: Graham Brown

Publisher: Ebury Press

ISBN: 9780091949181

Year Published: 2012

In southern Iran in 1979, archeologists Ahmad Bashir and Peter McKenzie discovered a copper scroll similar to that which was found among the famous Dead Sea Scrolls. Bashir believes this scroll could be 7,000 years old, but whatever secrets it may hold, they are lost as quickly as they were found as a sudden storm sweeps the scroll from Bashir's hand as he tried to escape the pursuing jihadists on the back of a lorry and within minutes, it disappears beneath the vastness of the desert sand.

coolreads# A Line to Kill @definitelybooks

A Line to Kill

Author: Anthony Horowitz

Publisher: Century

ISBN: 9781529124316

British author Anthony Horowitz’s latest offering, A Line to Kill, is a sequel to The Word is Murder and The Sentence is Death. This third entry in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series follows narrator Anthony Horowitz as he accompanies former Detective Daniel Hawthorne to a literary festival.

coolreads# 1979 @definitelybooks

1979

Author: Val McDermid

Publisher: Little Brown

ISBN: 9780751583083

Val McDermid’s 1979, the first in a planned five-book series set at 10-year intervals up to the present, is the story of Allie Burns, a young woman from a working-class Fife family who has a job as a reporter on a Glasgow tabloid, Glasgow Daily Clarion. She has a degree from Cambridge, a clear moral compass and a boundless determination to succeed in a man’s world. She knows what she’s up against - a woman in a Neanderthal’s world.

coolreads# Retro Books#. The Cassandra Compact

The Cassandra Compact

Authors: Robert Ludlum & Philip Shelby

Publisher: Harpercollins

ISBN: 0007101694

Year Published: 2001

Robert Ludlum’s The Cassandra Compact with coauthor Philip Shelby, takes off after The Hades Factor, published in 2000, which was his first novel in the new exciting Covert-One series.

coolreads# Retro Books# The Man

The Man

Author: Irving Wallace

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

ISBN: 9789997408730

First Published: 1964

When acting president TC dies due to a twist of fate, followed by the sudden demise of the House Speaker, the succession laws of the United States put Douglas Dillman, a black President pro tempore senator, in the hot seat by default, much to the disbelief and chagrin of racist America. The book is about how a nation, which professes equality and liberty as its cornerstones, lies exposed in its hollow shell.

coolreads# Call to Kill @definitelybooks

Kill For Me

Author: Tom Wood

Publisher: Sphere

ISBN: 9780751565720

Set in Central America, Tom Wood opens his eighth thriller with Victor the Assassin, now officially a gun-for-hire, having ended all previous relationships with the MI6 and CIA, in Guatemala for a gun purchase that ends up being a shakedown.

coolreads# Retro Books# A Higher Kind of Loyalty

A Higher Kind of Loyalty

(Translated by Zhu Hong)

Author: Liu Binyan

Publisher: Pantheon Book

ISBN: 0394574710

Year Published: 1990

Liu Binyan was China's foremost author, journalist, and political dissident. Born on Feb 7, 1925, he died on Dec 5, 2005 in Trenton, New Jersey, United States.

coolreads# Call to Kill @definitelybooks

Call to Kill

Author: Billy Billingham

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

ISBN: 9781529364583

This is the first in a brand new series from SAS: Who Dares Wins collection by Billy Billingham. The action kicks off immediately from the first page and it never stops. Readers are treated to some of the amazing field action of SAS mission undertaken by Matt ‘Mace’ Mason, a decorated soldier who has survived risky missions to Middle East countries like Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and now, Yemen - fighting alongside with his men to save a broken world.

coolreads# Fear No Evil @definitelybooks

Fear No Evil

Author: James Paterson

Publisher: Century

ISBN: 9781529125269

Fear No Evil is the 29th Dr Alex Cross mystery and as expected from the thrill-meister James Patterson, it’s a fast-paced, twisty adventure with a climactic ending. The stakes have never been higher for Cross as the international terrorist group Maestro, fronted by the mysterious and masked M, is not just threatening global violence, they are pulling it off. Cross and his best buddy, John Sampson, find themselves directly in the crosshairs. Will Cross and Sampson survive their excursion, and will the identity of M finally be revealed?

coolreads# The Crocodile Hunter @definitelybooks

The Crocodile Hunter

Author: Gerald Seymour

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

ISBN: 9781529386042

A thrilling story of the secret services, their enemies and the society they operate in, building with unrelenting suspense to a superb climax, The Crocodile Hunter is thriller writer Gerald Seymour, a former journalist, writing at his best.