Oh dear, I'm going to be bashed for this, but I say: Take a Dan Brown novel. Find a different premise, and copy, copy, copy. I mean, that man DOES thrillers to death -- and well. By copy, I'm suggesting you study how he keeps building up the tension. That's the way to do a thriller, even if he tends to repeat himself, a little. (BTW, that's why I stopped reading Evaonvich, every book repeated the same shtick over and over.) With Dan Brown, he releases few enough books that the system seems to work. At least that's my guess based on sales figures.
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