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Originally Posted by cassidym
I'd also recommend the early Tom Clancy books
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Seconding this. Hunt for Red October is the best thriller I've read. The Cardinal of the Kremlin was also quite good. That said, I've found Tom Clancy's work that doesn't deal with US/USSR politics to be worse than his US/USSR ones. And he seems to have weakness for basing his plots on protagonist being idiots - a 50/50 split so far.
I've also liked what I've read of Michael Crichton. Jurassic Park and Timeline are oldies but goodies.