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- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
When Billy Ellison, the son of Washington, D.C.’s most influential African-American family, is found dead in the Potomac near a violent drug haven, veteran metro reporter Sully Carter knows it’s time to start asking some serious questions―no matter what...
- Location(s): Washington DC, West Africa
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1969
It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge. A seasoned veteran of the service, 007 is sent to single-handedly stop a civil war in the small West African nation of Zanzarim. Aided...
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1930s onwards
In the quartet of novels about life in Washington DC of which The Big Blowdown is chronologically the first, George Pelecanos intelligently breaks down the thin barriers between the noir thriller and the character-driven novel of embattled masculinity. In...
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
The second novel featuring Spero Lucas, a young Iraq vet working as a PI in Washington DC but with a sideline in finding lost items – the kind of items the owners can’t go to the police about. This...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris, Washington DC
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s, 1950s
The Jazz Flower is a follow-up to Forbidden Circles, which ends with Nora Johnson and Douglas Stills expecting their first child. In The Jazz Flower, the child is born. Later, the couple has two more children. But it is...
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern looking back
The Capitol Building, Washington DC: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon believes he is here to give a lecture. He is wrong. Within minutes of his arrival, a shocking object is discovered. It is a gruesome invitation into an ancient world...
- Location(s): Boston, Washington DC
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Michael Tanner is heading home from a business trip when he accidentally picks up the wrong laptop from security. What he doesn’t know is that the owner is US senator Susan Robbins, and her laptop contains top secret files...
- Location(s): Paris, Washington DC
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2 and 2006
In this vivid, affecting novel of intertwined destinies and the enduring power of love against the bleakest odds, Levensohn weaves a tale saturated with historical accuracy and yet surprisingly intimate. A Jewish Girl in Parisdelivers romance and intrigue to...
- Location(s): Saipan, Seattle, Washington DC
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
When Jake Patrick took a summer internship at his estranged father’s corporation, he anticipated some much-needed extra cash and a couple of free meals from his guilty dad. He would never have guessed that he’d find himself in the...
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Mike Ford was following his father into a life of crime, when he chose to go straight and instead worked his way through Harvard Law School. Now he’s landed the ultimate job with the Davies Group, a powerful political...
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