Books like The Day of the Jackal
In 1963, French officers who feel betrayed over Algeria hire an English professional assassin known only as the Jackal to kill President de Gaulle, and a quiet police detective, Claude Lebel, is given the job of finding a man with no name.
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Shall We Tell the President?
A young FBI agent in Washington has six days to stop a plot to assassinate the President of the United States, after a tip-off suggests that a senator is involved.
The President Is Missing
Facing impeachment hearings, President Jonathan Duncan slips out of the White House alone to meet a young woman who claims to know about a cyberattack set to cripple the United States within days, while a hired killer closes in.
The Kill Artist
Gabriel Allon, an art restorer living quietly on the Cornish coast, once killed for Israeli intelligence; his old spymaster Ari Shamron draws him back to hunt Tariq al-Hourani, the Palestinian terrorist behind the Vienna car bomb that took his family from him.
The Gray Man
Court Gentry, a former CIA operative turned freelance assassin, learns that his handler has been forced to sell him out, and crosses Europe with hit squads from a dozen countries chasing a bounty on his head to free the old man's family from the château where they are held.
The Bourne Identity
A man is pulled half-dead from the Mediterranean with bullet wounds, no memory and the number of a Zurich bank account surgically implanted in his hip, and as he follows the only clue he has, killers start appearing at every step.
Absolute Power
Luther Whitney, an ageing master burglar, is hiding in the vault of a billionaire's Virginia mansion when he watches the President of the United States and his Secret Service agents take part in a woman's death, and then finds himself hunted for what he saw.
Red Dragon
A former FBI profiler is drawn out of retirement to catch a serial killer who murders entire families by moonlight, and the investigation requires him to think like a monster.
Five Survive
Six friends on a spring-break road trip in an RV break down in the middle of nowhere, and a sniper in the dark tells them that one of them has a secret worth killing for, and they have until dawn to give it up.
American Assassin
After his girlfriend dies in the Lockerbie bombing, Syracuse lacrosse star Mitch Rapp is recruited by the CIA's Irene Kennedy and sent to a brutal training camp run by Stan Hurley, then across Europe and into Beirut to hunt the men behind the attack.
Gone
DI Jack Caffery investigates a carjacking in Bristol in which an eleven-year-old girl was in the back seat, and the thief has done it before.
Bullet Train
Several assassins with crossing jobs, among them an unlucky one called Ladybug, a pair named Tangerine and Lemon and a schoolboy who is worse than any of them, board the same bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka.
The Cuckoo's Calling
Cormoran Strike, a war veteran running a failing detective agency in London, is hired by the brother of a supermodel who fell to her death from her balcony, ruled a suicide, to prove she was murdered.