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- Location(s): Seville, Washington DC
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 2000s
Part set in Sevilla, this is the novel about the NSA’s invincible code-breaking machine encountering a mysterious code it cannot break. Call in Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician and cryptogrpher. Her discovery sends shock waves through the corridors...
- Location(s): Paris, Washington DC
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 1920s
It’s 1925, and the Harlem Renaissance has expanded to cities beyond New York. Black writers, musicians, and artists are in vogue and think they can do anything. Nora Johnson, a honey yellow-skinned Howard University instructor, is no exception. Desiring...
- 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): 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...
- 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): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1972
Washington, D.C., 1972. Derek Strange has left the police department and set up shop as a private investigator. His former partner, Frank “Hound Dog” Vaughn, is still on the force. When a young woman comes to Strange asking for...
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