Sentences with phrase «great thriller novel»
Great thriller novel full of twists and turns.
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The Oscar - winning screenplay is actually based on several titles in James Ellroy's series of chronological thriller novels (including the title volume, The Big Nowhere, and White Jazz)-- a compelling blend of L.A. history and pulp fiction that has earned it comparisons to the greatest of all Technicolor noir films, Chinatown.
A pair of gray suede gloves abandoned on a department store counter; a small 35 mm still camera obscuring a woman's face except for her eyes; an electric train set; a finger on the disconnect button of a telephone; an ungloved, well - manicured hand resting briefly on another woman's shoulder: Todd Haynes's Carol is not a Hitchcockian thriller, although it is adapted from the second novel by Patricia Highsmith, whose first, Strangers on a Train, was the basis for one of the master of suspense's great movies.
Such is the microcosm at the center of Jean Renoir's Night at the Crossroads, a stunning mystery thriller based on the novel by Georges Simenon, one of the greatest of all detective writers.
It may have been 1991's The Silence of the Lambs that led to Hannibal Lecter's iconic status as well as his anointment as cinema's all - time greatest villain (at least according to the American Film Institute's 100 Heroes & Villains list back in 2003), but the cannibalistic doctor's first on - screen appearance can actually be found in this compelling thriller which writer - director Michael Mann adapted from Thomas Harris» novel Red Dragon.
Based on the bestselling novel by former spy turned author John le Carré, the movie looks like a throwback to those great, low - key political thrillers from the 1970s, and if that's not enough to pique your interest, then a brief glance at the cast list — a veritable who's who of the best British actors working today, including Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Mark Strong and Benedict Cumberbatch of «Sherlock» fame — will almost certainly change your mind.
His last novel, The Small Boat of Great Sorrows, was hailed as «a relentlessly crackling mystery and adventure tale» (The Baltimore Sun) and «a new standard for war - based thrillers» (Los Angeles Times).
This novel has great potential to be more of a psychological thriller but the storyline is kept too shallow for that to happen.
Gabriel Allon faces his most determined enemy — and greatest challenge — in the stunning new novel from the «world - class practitioner of spy fiction» (The Washington Post) Few recent thriller writers have excited the kind of critical praise that Daniel Silva has, with his novels featuring art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon.
Michael Koryta, long hailed as one of the best young thriller writers at work today, has written his greatest novel ever - an emotionally harrowing, unstoppably suspenseful novel that proves why Michael Connelly has named him «one of the best of the best.»
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If you're an addict of these heart - pounding thrillers I am certain this list of great authors will have you champing at the bit to add their novels to your reading list.
Grab a novel from one of these greats thriller authors, snuggle up, and read.
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He'd ultimately realized his dream of writing his own first novel — a thriller that combines his love of the great outdoors with a very exciting story — and he's published it as an ebook.
Regularly listed in the top 100 (and often top 50) bestselling authors on Amazon, Russell Blake is a thriller writer who has written twenty novels and who has mastered the art of great writing and great sales.
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It's not a replacement for Junot Diaz or great nonfiction, but it beats romance novels or the latest thriller for your next light read.