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From Lawyers to Cowboys: Jon Land’s Top August Thrillers

Always to the rescue with the next best reads, Jon Land shares his favorite thrillers of August. https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Outfox-400x603.jpg Sandra Brown continues her string of remarkable hardcore thrillers with the canny and clever Outfox (Grand Central). This neo-noir crime story reads like modern-day James M. Cain. FBI agent Drex Easton has…
Jon Land
August 14, 2019
Thrillers

The 10 Best Science Thrillers Ever Written: Jon Land’s Picks

So my latest Caitlin Strong thriller, Strong to the Bone, is heavily based in science, particularly bio-engineering, after clinical trials for a groundbreaking anti-rejection drug go horribly wrong. That results in bad guys, really bad guys, ending up in possession of what could be the ultimate weapon. So I got…
Jon Land
December 1, 2017
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8 February Thrillers to Fall in Love With

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s stellar Crooked River (Grand Central), the nineteenth to feature FBI special agent Aloysius Pendergast, shows why this is the best mystery series going today.  The premise is enough to make the likes of Jeffery Deaver and Thomas Harris blush: dozens of identical blue shoes are…
Jon Land
February 17, 2020