INTRODUCTION
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INTRODUCTIONA thriller novel is a novel that uses suspense, excitement, apprehension and exhilaration to tell a story. Thriller novels have villains, suspense, and action in settings such as espionage, medicine, crime, politics, and high tech.
They often involve life and death situations and have high stakes, like the control of the world or the possibility of widespread death or destruction.
Many times innocent people are victimized, stalked, or caught in situations that are beyond their control.
Characters have to overcome obstacles, either alone or with a small group of people, and stop some catastrophe from happening. Thrillers usually have a happy ending.
This book is a special collection of twenty best thriller novels which are going to embark you on a journey to the world of suspense, action, shock and fear.
Here they are :
BRAIN TWISTER by Randall Garrett
DESPERATE REMEDIES by Thomas Hardy
FOUR JUST MEN by Edgar Wallace
GEEK MAFIA by Rick Dakan
THE AFTER HOUSE by Mary Roberts Rinehart
THE APARTMENT NEXT DOOR by William Andrew Johnston
THE CZAR'S SPY by William Le Queux
THE DUST OF DEATH: The Story of the Great Plague of the Twentieth Century by Fred Merrick White
THE EVIL SHEPHERD by Edward Phillips Oppenheim
THE INTERNATIONAL SPY by Allen Upward
THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY: A NIGHTMARE by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME by Richard Connell
THE PIT: A STORY OF CHICAGO by Frank Norris
THE PRISONER OF ZENDA by Anthony Hope
THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS by Erskine Childers
THE RIVER OF DEATH: A TALE OF LONDON IN PERIL by Fred Merrick White
THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS by John Buchan
THE THREE HOSTAGES by John Buchan
THE WOMAN IN WHITE by Wilkie Collins
WHAT'S BRED IN THE BONE by Grant Allen
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BRAIN TWISTER by Randall Garrett
About Garrett:Randall Garrett (December 16, 1927 - December 31, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a prolific contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. He instructed Robert Silverberg in the techniques of selling large quantities of action-adventure sf, and collaborated with him on two novels about Earth bringing civilization to an alien planet.
"Mark Phillips" is, or are, two writers: Randall Garrett and
Laurence M. Janifer. Their joint pen-name, derived from their
middle names (Philip and Mark), was coined soon after their
original meeting, at a science-fiction convention. Both men were
drunk at the time, which explains a good deal, and only one has
ever sobered up. A matter for constant contention between the
collaborators is which one.
They have been collaborating for some time now, and have devised
an interesting method of work: Mr. Garrett handles the verbs, the
adverbs and the interjections, Mr. Janifer the nouns, pronouns, and
adjectives. Conjunctions are a matter of joint decision, and in the
case of a tie, the entire game is replayed at Fenway Park, Boston,
early in the following year.
BRAIN TWISTER was fifteen years in the making, of which time
three days were spent in the actual writing. When the book was
finished, both authors relaxed in the mutual pleasure of nervous
breakdowns, from which it is not certain that either has ever
recovered.
Mr. Garrett is a large, roundish fellow with a beard. He wears
flowered vests and always carries a small talisman which no one has
ever seen. Mr. Janifer is a somewhat shorter and thinner type, with
a shorter and thinner beard. His vests are in solid colors, he
wears horn-rimmed glasses because he has always done so, and he is
never found without a souvenir subway token from the City of New
York.
The personal lives of the authors differ widely. Mr. Garrett's
hobbies, for instance, include such sports as close-order drill and
river pollution. Mr. Janifer, a less active type, prefers sedentary
games such as humming or blinking.
Mr. Garrett is engaged to an exotically beautiful creature, and
the two plan to be married as soon as they run out of excuses. Mr.
Janifer, on the other hand, is fascinated by women, and hopes some
day to meet one.
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