Thriller (book)
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Thriller is a compilation of 30 thriller short stories edited by James Patterson
James Patterson
James B. Patterson is an American author of thriller novels, largely known for his series about American psychologist Alex Cross...

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James Penney's New Identity by Lee Child
Lee Child
Jim Grant , better known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British thriller writer. His wife Jane is a New Yorker, and they currently live in New York state. His first novel, Killing Floor, won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel....

In Laney, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

, a man named James Penney is fired after seventeen years on the job. Infuriated, James burns down his house and starts a new life. However, the fire had spread across the neighborhood and James is wanted for arson
Arson
Arson is the crime of intentionally or maliciously setting fire to structures or wildland areas. It may be distinguished from other causes such as spontaneous combustion and natural wildfires...

. Now a wanted criminal, James meets up with a military cop, Jack Reacher
Jack Reacher
Jack Reacher is a fictional character created by British author Jim Grant who writes under the pen name of Lee Child.-Biographical information:...

, who sympathises with him and helps him out of his predicament.

Operation Northwoods by James Grippando
James Grippando
-Biography:James Grippando was born in Waukegan, Illinois and raised in rural Illinois.In his first job out of law school Grippando served as law clerk to the Honorable Thomas A. Clark, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta...

A massive fire across a US Naval Station in Cuba
Cuba
The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...

 originates from a plane crash believed to contain a large quantity of napalm
Napalm
Napalm is a thickening/gelling agent generally mixed with gasoline or a similar fuel for use in an incendiary device, primarily as an anti-personnel weapon...

. The area of the naval station on fire housed suspected terrorists. In Miami, Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

, the FBI receives an anonymous tip that a man named Jack Swyteck, a defense lawyer, is in danger. A SWAT
SWAT
A SWAT team is an elite tactical unit in various national law enforcement departments. They are trained to perform high-risk operations that fall outside of the abilities of regular officers...

 Team is sent to investigate his home only to find that Jack is alone and perfectly safe. The leader of the SWAT team informs Jack the fire in Cuba was started when a plane piloted by one of Jack's clients, Jean Saint Preux, crashed. Jack informs the SWAT team leader that Jean mentioned an 'Operation Northwoods'.

Kill Zone by Robert Liparulo
Robert Liparulo
Robert Liparulo is a former journalist, with over a thousand articles and multiple writing awards to his name. Readers of his action-thrillers were not surprised when his visual storytelling style caught the eye of Hollywood producers...

As police sniper Byron Stone watches through a rifle's scope, a man in an apartment terrorizes a mother and her two children. He fears missing his target, granting the hostage-taker a final opportunity to complete his dirty work.

Epitaph by J. A. Konrath
J. A. Konrath
Joseph Andrew Konrath is a fiction writer working in the mystery, thriller, and horror genres. He writes as J. A. Konrath.-Biography:...

A paid killer, Phin, is hired by a Chinese man named Ti to avenge his daughter, Sunny Lung, who was killed by a gang known as the 'Kings'. Phin, after having received a beating from the Kings, breaches the gang's headquarters and kills the men responsible for Sunny's death, using Sunny's cremated remains as bullets.

The Face In The Window by Heather Graham
Heather Graham Pozzessere
Heather Graham Pozzessere is a best-selling US writer, who writes primarily romance novels...

A dangerous storm rips through Florida, where an evacuation notice has been spread throughout part of the state. Beth Henson, a woman whose husband, Keith has been sent to rescue an elderly woman, stays in her house during the evacuation progress. A man stumbles in seeking shelter, but Beth suspects that he is a serial killer. Keith enters the elderly woman's home, only to find that she is unconscious inside the trunk of her car. A youth found around the woman's house claims to be her nephew; Keith also suspects that he is a serial killer. Back in the house, Beth attacks her guest with a frying pan. She flees to the shed where the youth catches her, holding a knife to her neck. Keith arrives at the house and whilst searching for the youth, bumps into the man who was hit by a frying pan. Keith locks him in a room and exits to the shed. The three enter the house where the man ambushes them and takes Beth hostage. Beth retaliated and attacked the man again with a frying pan, leaving him unconscious.

Empathy by James Siegel
James Siegel
James Siegel is an American thriller novelist. He holds a B.A. from the York College 1977, City University of New York, and lives in Long Island....

The author, whose name is unmentioned, has an affair with a hotel masseuse, Kelly. Kelly tells him that she is an empath, someone who can sense one's emotions by touch. She tells him of a man in whom she sensed a very strong evil, and that the man is a pedophile. The author is very moved, because he feels that he caused his younger brother's suicide by not saying anything about the pedophile priest that it is implied abused both of them. He seeks out the man whom Kelly mentioned; after killing him, the author meets with a friend of Kelly, who informs him that Kelly was divorced with a son. She tells him that Kelly was a drug addict and that she poisoned her son against his father. Realizing that he had killed Kelly's innocent ex-husband, the author set out to kill Kelly and avenge the man whom he had killed. In the end it is implied that the author commits suicide.

Kowalski's In Love by James Rollins
James Rollins
* For the American baseball pitcher, see Jim Czajkowski* For the American baseball shortstop, see Jimmy Rollins* For the 19th century American politician from Missouri, see James S. Rollins...

Seaman Joe Kowalski swims onto a small island after his boat was accidentally blown up by a gas leak. He is met by Dr. Shay Rosauro who informs him that the island is infected with a transgenic rhabdovirus, and that the island is scheduled to be bombed by the Brazilian Navy at 0900 hours--less than half an hour. Shay herself had dropped off the island to retrieve the only antidotes to the virus, an evac helicopter is scheduled to pick her up at 0855 hours. However, the island is scattered with booby traps, and it isn't long until Shay falls into a trap, breaking her leg. Kowalski offers to retrieve the antidotes himself, whilst Shay makes for the evac dropsite. Shay reluctantly agrees, but gets caught in another booby trap on her way. Kowalski bumped into Gabriella Salazar, a woman who also sought the antidotes. Kowalski shot and killed Gabriella in self-defense, retrieving the antidotes in turn. The evac had lifted off the island, but there was a boat that was meant for Gabriella in which Shay and Kowalski escaped.

The Hunt For Dmitri by Gayle Lynds
Gayle Lynds
Gayle Lynds is an American author. A member of the U.S. Association for Intelligence Officers, she is known for being a bestselling novelist in the male-dominated genre of spy fiction or spy thrillers...

Dmitri Garnitsky is on the hitlist of a professional assassin, the Carnivore, who has a reputation for never failing. After being tipped off, Dmitri leaves his home, but he is met by the Carnivore, and later Oleg Olenkov, the man who hired the Carnivore. The Carnivore is angered by Olenkov's demands, and shoots him in the chest, leaving Dmitri unharmed. Many years later, Olenkov catches up with the Carnivore's daughter, Liz Sansborough, a psychologist. Pretending to be one 'Arkady Albam', Olenkov leads Sansborough to his apartment, where he tells her the story of how he got shot. He reveals himself to be Olenkov, and moments later Dmitri entered the apartment, shocked that his attempted killer was there. The three of them engaged in a violent struggle, resulting in Olenkov being rendered unconscious and harmless.

Disfigured by Michael Palmer
Michael Palmer (novelist)
Michael Stephen Palmer, M.D. , is the author of 16 novels, often called medical thrillers...

& Daniel Palmer

Dr. George Hill and his ex-wife Maura Hill receive a letter that their son had been kidnapped and that if they wanted to see their son alive again, George would have to inject isopropyl alcohol
Isopropyl alcohol
Isopropyl alcohol is a common name for a chemical compound with the molecular formula C3H8O. It is a colorless, flammable chemical compound with a strong odor...

 in the sides of one of his client's faces during surgery. The victim's name was Audra Meadows and she had a husband, Alec Meadows, who owned the Alec Meadows Company. Maura sneaked into the Meadows' household, hoping to rescue her son. After witnessing Alec rape his wife, she searched the house without success. Maura went out to one of the properties that was owned by A.R. Meadows, only to find the property was owned by one Ambrose Meadows. Maura went in search for Dr. Simon Rubenstein, a doctor who had prescribed Audra's pills. It was then it was discovered that Audra had threatened Maura's son's life herself without the knowledge of her husband, believing that if she were disfigured, her husband would reject her, and then she'd be free from his mental and sexual abuse. Just before the surgery, Maura and Dr. Rubenstein confronted Audra to convince her to stop.

The Abelard Sanction by David Morrell
David Morrell
David Morrell is a Canadian-American novelist, best known for his debut 1972 novel First Blood, which would later become the successful Rambo film franchise starring Sylvester Stallone. He has written 28 novels, and his work has been translated into 26 languages...

Saul Grisman and his wife, Erika, are on a hunt to kill Habib, a terrorist who killed their son. Following Habib to a place known as the Abelard Sanction, Erika reveals sticks of dynamite
Dynamite
Dynamite is an explosive material based on nitroglycerin, initially using diatomaceous earth , or another absorbent substance such as powdered shells, clay, sawdust, or wood pulp. Dynamites using organic materials such as sawdust are less stable and such use has been generally discontinued...

 around her waist, threatening Habib and her husband's lives. She offers Habib a chance to escape, allowing him a 24 hour head start
Head start (positioning)
In positioning, a head start is a start in advance of the starting position of others in competition, or simply toward the finish line or desired outcome...

. The dynamite was revealed to be a fake, and the detonatortriggered explosives on both sides of Habib's vehicle, killing him.

Falling by Chris Mooney
Chris Mooney
Christopher Cole Mooney is a U.S. journalist and academic who focuses on science in politics.-Biography:Mooney was born in Mesa, Arizona, and grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana...

Marlena, an FBI agent, is sent to plant a transmitter on an ex-FBI agent, Malcolm Fletcher. Fletcher is one of the FBI's Most Wanted after killing three of the FBI's federal agents. The assignment went horribly wrong, and now Marlena is ordered to disengage, escaping the island by boat. One of her co-workers, Barry Jacobs, revealed that he worked for someone else who wanted the FBI out of the way. After killing FBI Special Agent Owen Lee, Jacobs paralyzed Marlena but was tied up by Fletcher, who saved Marlena and left her with a helpless Jacobs.

Success Of A Mission by Dennis Lynds

Captain Paul Hareet and Lieutenant Greta Frank are assigned to retrieve information on where an Arabic country's ammunition is kept, three days before the country attacks. The couple are disguised as American tourists. After retrieving the information, Hareet was shot and killed whilst attempting to escape, but managed to supply the information to the American Defense.

The Portal by John Lescroart
John Lescroart
John T. Lescroart is an American author best known for two series of legal and crime thriller novels featuring the characters Dismas Hardy and Abe Glitsky....

& M.J. Rose

Lucy Delrey, a nymphomaniac, is in therapy confessing that she has no feelings for anything. After two months of therapy, she realizes that her loss of emotion originated with the disappearance of her childhood hero, Frank Millay. She decides to find out where he lives and seduce him, exposing him to his wife for leaving her when she was a kid. Frank strangled and killed her, saying that he couldn't let anyone 'find out'. The killing was recorded on video and Frank was arrested.

The Double Dealer by David Liss
David Liss
David Liss is an American writer of novels, essays and short fiction; more recently working also in comic books. He was born in New Jersey and grew up in South Florida. Liss received his B. A. degree from Syracuse University, an M. A. from Georgia State University and his M. Phil from Columbia...

Fisher, an aging highwayman, tells the story of an encounter with another highwayman, Benjamin Weaver, back in the 1710s. Weaver and his friend, Thomas Lane, are attacked by Fisher and his crime partner, Ruddy Dick. After Lane was knocked out, Weaver beheaded Dick, Fisher grabbed the money and both fled the scene. A year later, Fisher befriends a man known as Farting Dan. Whilst robbing an equipage, Weaver kills Dan, but is shot by Fisher. Fisher returns home with the equipage's horseman, Phillip, trying to get him to pick a valuable lock. Phillip revealed himself to be Weaver, and that in their encounter a year ago Fisher had mistaken Lane for Weaver and vice versa. Lane, however, is not dead; the gun Fisher used was faulty and all the entire robbery deaths were staged. Farting Dan entered and the two of them retrieved the boxes.

Dirty Weather by Gregg Hurwitz
Gregg Hurwitz
Gregg Hurwitz is a writer of crime novels and comics.-Biography:Gregg Hurwitz is the critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of The Tower, Minutes to Burn, Do No Harm, The Kill Clause, The Program, Troubleshooter, Last Shot, The Crime Writer, and Trust No One...

A bar in a small, ransacked town is under armed robbery. Rick Jacobs manages to scare off the robber who was after a load of cash in a safe. After pocketing the cash, Jacobs and a maid who worked at the bar escaped the road-blocked town. Jacobs reveals he faked the robbery scene with his crime partner, knocking the maid out and stealing the money.

Other Stories in Collection

  • Spirit Walker by David Dun
    David Dun
    David Dun is a thriller writer.David Dun was born and grew up in western Washington but moved to northern California to begin his legal career. He holds a B.A. in psychology from the University of Washington and earned his law degree at Seattle University...


  • At The Drop Of A Hat by Denise Hamilton
    Denise Hamilton
    Denise Hamilton is an American crime novelist, journalist and editor of the Edgar-award winning anthologies Los Angeles Noir and Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics...


  • The Other Side Of The Mirror by Eric Van Lustbader
    Eric Van Lustbader
    Eric Van Lustbader is a writer of thriller and fantasy novels.He is a graduate of New York's Stuyvesant High School and Columbia College, with a degree in Sociology, and is a second-level Reiki master.-The Pearl Saga:...


  • Man Catch by Christopher Rice
    Christopher Rice
    Christopher Travis Rice is an American author. Rice has written five best-selling novels: A Density of Souls, The Snow Garden, Light Before Day, Blind Fall, and his latest book, The Moonlit Earth, which was published in April 2010 by Scribner.-Biography:Christopher Rice comes from a family of...


  • Goodnight, Sweet Mother by Alex Kava
    Alex Kava
    Alex Kava is an American author of psychological suspense novels.Growing up in the country of Silver Creek, Nebraska, Sharon Kava fantasized about becoming a writer. Her parents, although they understood the value of education, had a tremendous work ethic. Reading was seen as frivolous unless...


  • Sacrificial Lion by Grant Blackwood
    Grant Blackwood
    Grant Blackwood is an American thriller writer and ghostwriter. He wrote the Briggs Tanner series. He co-authored with Clive Cussler Spartan Gold which reached number 10 on the New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list...


  • Interlude At Duane's by F. Paul Wilson
    F. Paul Wilson
    Francis Paul Wilson is an American author, primarily in the science fiction and horror genres. His debut novel was Healer . Wilson is also a part-time practicing family physician. He made his first sales in 1970 to Analog while still in medical school , and continued to write science fiction...


  • The Powder Monkey by Ted Bell
    Ted Bell
    Ted Bell is an American author of suspense novels such as Hawke and Assassin, Pirate, and Spy. He is best known for his New York Times Bestselling series of spy thriller novels featuring the character Alex Hawke. Before becoming a novelist, he was President and Chief Creative Officer of the Leo...


  • Surviving Toronto by M. Diane Vogt

  • Assassins by Christopher Reich

  • The Athens Solution by Brad Thor
    Brad Thor
    Brad Thor is a #1 New York Times bestselling thriller novelist and author of The Lions of Lucerne, Path of the Assassin, State of the Union, Blowback, Takedown, The First Commandment, The Last Patriot, The Apostle, Foreign Influence, The Athena Project and Full Black. His novels have been...


  • Diplomatic Constraints by Raelynn Hillhouse
    Raelynn Hillhouse
    Raelynn Hillhouse is an American national security and Intelligence Community analyst, former smuggler during the Cold War, and a spy novelist.-Personal history:...


  • The Devil's Due by Steve Berry

  • The Tuesday Club by Katherine Neville

  • Gone Fishing by Douglas Preston
    Douglas Preston
    Douglas Preston is an American author who has written seventeen popular techno-thriller and horror novels, four alone and the rest with Lincoln Child...

    & Lincoln Child
    Lincoln Child
    Lincoln Child is an author of seventeen techno-thriller and horror novels. He often writes with Douglas Preston. Many of their novels have become bestsellers, and one, Relic, was adapted into a feature film...

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