The Talented Mr. Ripley
1955 psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith
thriller
The Third Man
1949 British film noir directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard
The Day of the Jackal
Thriller novel by English author Frederick Forsyth about a professional assassin who is contracted by the OAS, a French dissident paramilitary organisation, to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.The novel received admiring reviews and praise when first published in 1971, and it received a 1972 Best Novel Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America
The Andromeda Strain
1969 techno-thriller novel by Michael Crichton, his first novel under his own name and his sixth novel overall
The Hunt for Red October
Debut novel by American author Tom Clancy, first published on October 1, 1984 by the Naval Institute Press
The Man Who Was Thursday
1908 novel by G. K. Chesterton
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan
The Da Vinci Code
2003 mystery thriller novel by Dan Brown
Scott Turow
American author and lawyer
Martin Cruz Smith
American mystery novelist