Posted on 09/01/2012 1:21:23 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich
I need help...I am a Vincy Flynn and Brad Thor addict...my wife has brought home from the library, and like Dale Brown books, I see right through their liberal crap...it is hard to find anything to fill the void while Vince and Brad ginn up the next ones...help me if you will with some authors who can hold my interest.
Silva is ok, but I don't care about stealing a Rembrant painting...I like conspiracy, spy, etc.
nelson demille
I should probably offer to mail it to someone but I am lazy
I didn’t think David Baldacci was a conservative after I read “The Collectors”, his main character struck me as somewhat liberal for a retired assassin.
Tom Cruise is playing Reacher? Who on earth thought that was a good idea? Dang.....
I love the Reacher books....but will not go to any Cruise movie.
If you ever were interested in mord highminded fare there’s always Joseph Conrad, who’s one of if not the originators. Try “The Secret Agent” or “Under Western Eyes.” One of them has a plot to disrupt British culture by blowing up the Royal Observatory in Greenwich to kill Greenwich Mean Time.
Get that one....and that one.
Thanks for the thread. I too, am looking for non-liberal, leftwing crap books. The more conservative and patriotic, the better.
As a female, I have no time at all for the so-called "women's novels."
Had a friend suggest one to me in the eighties and threw it out after less than the first chapter. Friend inquired what I thought of it and I told her Tom Clancy and Len Deighton, and their kindred were more my type.
Stephen Hunter
I feel awkward pushing myself on Freerepublic, but I have a military sci-fi book out. My pen name is Wilson Harp and the name of the book is “Bright Horizons”. It’s available on amazon and you can download a sample.
I had difficulty putting down “Foreign Enemies and Traitors” by Matthew Bracken. What an exciting read!
Big ones!
Helen MacInnes’s mysteries & spy thrillers. Alistair MacLean (you’ve seen a few of the movies—Guns of Navarrone, Ice Station Zebra, but so many of the books are better. John D. MacDonald. Dashiel Hammet. For a similar Vince Flynn-level, Harlan Corben (a liberal friend of Chris Christie). Martin Cruz Smith (Gorky’s a better book than a movie). Colin Dexter, Elizabeth George. And with very few exceptions, Allen Drury wrote a string of political thrillers—starting with Advise & Consent and improving book by book until Throne of Saturn. Missing many, but these should be a good start..
The Color Of Lightning, excellent, about Indian raids in Texas civil-war era, also Stormy Weather, same area, Depression times, oil booms.
Frederick Forsyth:
The Avenger
The Afghan
The Cobra
The Veteran (collection so short stories plus the title novella)
Kinda surprised you like Baldacci...I found him to be a conservative-hating liberal in his writings.
Yep,thanks...I forgot to mention I was done w/ Ben Coes and waiting on his next one, too.
I saw a couple of mentions of Nelson DeMille, but I think you should be forewarned that DeMille has become a vitriolic leftist bigot in his old age, so his newer novels are filled full of hate spewing towards anything to the right of Fidel Castro.
But I enjoyed The Gold Coast, Plum Island and The Lion’s Game. Just stay away from the newer stuff.
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