Genre
Spy & Action Thrillers for the Long Flight
Action-driven thrillers that earn their pages. James Bond returns to Japan, Isaac Bell chases a saboteur across 1907 California, a special-forces team finds something they were not supposed to find in Antarctica, and a Briggs Tanner novel that put Grant Blackwood on Clancy's radar.
6 books on this list.
The Man With the Red Tattooby Raymond Benson
4.0“The Man with the Red Tattoo by Raymond Benson 2002 review. The final original James Bond continuation novel, set in Japan, with Tokyo Yakuza, a bioterror plot, and a return to Fleming-Japan territory.”
The World is Not Enoughby Raymond Benson
3.0“The World is Not Enough by Raymond Benson 1999 review. The official novelization of the nineteenth James Bond film, with the oil-pipeline plot expanded and a few sharper Bond beats.”
The Wall of Nightby Grant Blackwood
3.0“The Wall of Night by Grant Blackwood 2004 review. The second Briggs Tanner thriller sends the former ISAG operator into the South China Sea to recover a Chinese intelligence trove from a sinking Inmarsat freighter.”
The Rockby Robert Doherty
3.0“The Rock by Robert Doherty 1996 review. A military-SF thriller about a Special Forces team sent into Antarctica to investigate an alien artifact buried in the ice and very much active.”
Black Rainby Graham Brown
3.0“Black Rain by Graham Brown 2010 review. A Tulane archaeologist, an NRI agent, and a CIA-linked search team converge on a lost Mayan site in the Amazon that hides 1944-era weapons-grade research.”
The Wreckerby Clive Cussler
4.0“The Wrecker by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott 2009 review. Isaac Bell hunts a saboteur targeting the Southern Pacific Railroad in this second Van Dorn historical thriller.”