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Thriller
Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more-powerful and better-equipped villains. Literary devices such as suspense, red herrings and cliffhangers are used extensively.
Thrillers often overlap with mystery stories, but are distinguished by the structure of their plots. In a thriller, the hero must thwart the plans of an enemy, rather than uncover a crime that has already happened. Thrillers also occur on a much grander scale: the crimes that must be prevented are serial or mass murder, terrorism, assassination, or the ov ...more
Thrillers often overlap with mystery stories, but are distinguished by the structure of their plots. In a thriller, the hero must thwart the plans of an enemy, rather than uncover a crime that has already happened. Thrillers also occur on a much grander scale: the crimes that must be prevented are serial or mass murder, terrorism, assassination, or the ov ...more
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Working on the Dark Side of the Moon
by Thomas Reed Willemain (Goodreads Author)
by Thomas Reed Willemain (Goodreads Author)
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date: Jun 30, 2017
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Magicians Impossible
by Brad Abraham (Goodreads Author)
by Brad Abraham (Goodreads Author)
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date: Sep 12, 2017
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“From its action-packed opening sequence, this is a cinematic, fast-paced debut.” ―STARRED Library Journal
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Hell Will Rise (Bloodthirst Mafia #1)
by Skyla Murphy (Goodreads Author)
by Skyla Murphy (Goodreads Author)
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date: May 08, 2017
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Linwood Barclay
Author of No Time for Goodbye
Linwood Barclay is the #1 internationally bestselling author of thirteen novels, including Trust Your Eyes, A Tap on the Window, No Time for Goodbye and that novel's followup, No Safe House.
This summer, his thriller Broken Promise, the first of three linked novels about his fictional upstate New York town Promise Falls, will be released. Book two will come nine months later, and another nine months after that, the conclusion will be released.
Over the years, several of Barclay's novels have been optioned for film and television. Most recently, No Time for Goodbye has been optioned for television in France, and in 2012, Trust Your Eyes was the object of a film rights bidding war between Universal and Warner Bros.
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As the sun rules the day and the moon governs the night, so too, we are connected by: the air that we breathe, light that we see and the darkness that follows. Life is too short to waste it on disagreements. Surely, we can all agree to disagree. So let us find a common ground, form a union and spread joy, happiness and freedom around the world for the benefit of you, me and the future generations to come.
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― Raymond Beresford Hamilton, Identity Assumption
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Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire. A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
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