Recommend some Thriller/Adventure authors please

[tech_au]

I have just finished reading Atlantis by David Gibbins and enjoyed it so I can add him to my favorites list along with James Rollins, Matthew Reilly and Clive Cussler.
I have Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child on my list to check out. Are there any other authors in a similar vein that are recommended ?

[Leep]

Originally Posted by tech_au

I have just finished reading Atlantis by David Gibbins and enjoyed it so I can add him to my favorites list along with James Rollins, Matthew Reilly and Clive Cussler.
I have Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child on my list to check out. Are there any other authors in a similar vein that are recommended ?

Here is a fun site that allows you to put in an authors name and "map" authors who write in a similiar fashion.
http://www.literature-map.com/

Authors I like who do nice thrillers are Phillip Margolin, Jeffery Deavers and James Grippando

cheers

[Penforhire]

Check out James Patterson.

[JSWolf]

My wife enjoys Vince Flynn and I like David Badacci's Camel Club series.

[HarryT]

Have you tried H. Rider Haggard? His adventure stories, although written over a century ago, are on a par with any modern "thriller" writer, IMHO. All can be downloaded from this site.

[tech_au]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Have you tried H. Rider Haggard? His adventure stories, although written over a century ago, are on a par with any modern "thriller" writer, IMHO. All can be downloaded from this site.

I must admit that the only thing I know about H Rider Haggard is King Solomons Mine which I must have seen every version of the movie from the pretty good old Black and White version through the passable 80's version to the rather awful recent Hallmark version but haven't read any of his other works so I'll add that to my list. Thanks
BTW , The literature-map site is quite good.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by tech_au

I must admit that the only thing I know about H Rider Haggard is King Solomons Mine which I must have seen every version of the movie from the pretty good old Black and White version through the passable 80's version to the rather awful recent Hallmark version but haven't read any of his other works so I'll add that to my list. Thanks
BTW , The literature-map site is quite good.

Read the book of "King Solomon's Mines" (Volume 1 of my "Haggard Anthology"); it's one of the best adventure stories ever written, IMHO, and fat better than the film versions. The other one which everyone's heard of is "She" (in Vol 2 of the anthology).

[Format C:]

Originally Posted by Penforhire

Check out James Patterson.

He does not write his books.

[Format C:]

I don't know if Stefano Di Marino has ever been translated in english, but he's far better than some of the "big names" in the industry...

[Format C:]

Originally Posted by Leep

Here is a fun site that allows you to put in an authors name and "map" authors who write in a similiar fashion.
http://www.literature-map.com/

Authors I like who do nice thrillers are Phillip Margolin, Jeffery Deavers and James Grippando

cheers

I looked for Jeffery Deaver and I found Oriana Fallaci (a conservative journalist).
Looking for Greg Iles, I fount James Patterson close to him, but when I searched Patterson, Iles was far away from...

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Format C:

He does not write his books.

I beg your pardon?

Many of his books have certainly been co-written with other authors, but, equally certainly, he has written many independently. His extremely popular "Alex Cross" crime series, for example, has been entirely written by him.

[Dr. Drib]

If you want some reading that's also corny - but very, very much fun to read - then I would look at Harry's Edgar Wallace books that were originally published during the 1920s and 30s.

These are rip-snorting adventures of intrigue - highly improbably (Hey! So is James Bond ), and just plain fun to read.

...but, please remember, the writing is somewhat clunky and dated.

Don

[mtravellerh]

Originally Posted by HarryT

I beg your pardon?

Many of his books have certainly been co-written with other authors, but, equally certainly, he has written many independently. His extremely popular "Alex Cross" crime series, for example, has been entirely written by him.

His latest books have been ghost-written and it shows.

[lilac_jive]

I see you have a Sony- Just in case you didn't notice, Sony is releasing weekly chapters of Lincoln Child's new book, Terminal Freeze. Here's the link:
http://ebookstore.sony.com/terminal-...view_1-27_Rt_2

[rcuadro]

I have read almost every single book by Douglas Preston and Lincon Child and I enjoyed them all. The best ones, in my opinion, are the Pedegrast Series (Relic, Reliquary, Cabinet of Curiosities, Still Life With Crows, Brimstone, Dance of Death,The Book of the Dead and The Wheel of Darkness.)

One thing though, there is a certain order that the books should be read... It makes them flow and you see the characters introduced and evolve through the books.