MY TOP 50 MAINSTREAM THRILLERS

       IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

1. A Cage of Ice --Duncan Kyle

2. A Stranger is Watching --Mary Higgins Clark

3. Cathedral --Nelson DeMille

4. City of Thieves --David Benioff

5. Coma --Robin Cook

6. Eye of the Needle --Ken Follett

7. Fail-Safe --Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler

8. Fear the Worst --Linwood Barclay

9. Firefox --Craig Thomas

10. Free Flight --Douglas Terman

11. Gorky Park --Martin Cruz Smith

12. Ice Station Zebra --Alistair MacLean

13. Killer Instinct --Joseph Finder

14. Marathon Man --William Goldman

15. Misery --Stephen King

16. Intensity --Dean Koontz

17. Prince of Fire --Daniel Silva

18. Jolie Blon’s Bounce --James Lee Burke

19. Rogue Male --Geoffrey Household

20. SS-GB --Len Deighton

21. Schism --Bill Granger

22. Sunflower --Marilyn Sharp

23. Tell No One --Harlan Coben

24. The Alienist --Caleb Carr

25. The Amateur --Robert Littell

26. Andromeda Strain --Michael Crichton

27. The Bourne Identity --Robert Ludlum

28. The Boys from Brazil --Ira Levin

29. The Eagle has Landed --Jack Higgins

30. The Eiger Sanction --Trevanian

31. The Empty Copper Sea --John D. MacDonald

32. The Faithful Spy --Alex Berenson

33. The Fifth Horseman --Larry Collins and Dominique LaPierre

34. The Fury of Rachel Monette --Peter Abrahams

35. The Little Drummer Girl --John LeCarre

36. The Human Factor --Graham Greene

37. The Luneburg Variation --Paulo Maurensig

38. The Master Sniper --Stephen Hunter

39. The Odessa File --Frederick Forsyth

40. The Paladin --Brian Garfield

41. The Partner --John Grisham

42. The Spike --Araurd DeBorchgrave and Robert Moss

43. The Tower of Babel --Morris L. West

44. The Venetian Affair --Helen MacInnes

45. The Wind-Chill Factor --Thomas Gifford

46. Tramp in Armour --Colin Forbes

47. The Quiller Memorandum --Adam Hall

48. Twice Shy --Dick Francis

49. Vandenberg --Oliver Lange

50. Without Remorse --Tom Clancy

1. A Ship Possessed --Alton Gansky

2. Chayatocha --Shane Johnson

3. Circle of Seven --Clay Jacobsen

4. Conspiracy in Kiev --Noel Hynd

5. Crown of Thorns --Sigmund Brouwer

6. Danger Close --William Boykin and Tom Morrisey

7. Dark Star --Creston Mapes

8. Dawn of a Thousand Nights --Tricia Goyer

9. Deadfall --Robert Liparulo

10. Deadline --Randy Alcorn

11. Dead Man’s Rule --Rick Acker

12. Demon --Tosca Lee

13. Drift --Sharon Carter Rogers

14. Drummer in the Dark --T. Davis Bunn

15. Exorsistah --Claudia Mair Burney

16. Final Witness--James Scott Bell

17. Firefly Blue --Jake Thoene

18. First the Dead --Tim Downs

19. Forgiving Solomon Long --Chris Well

20. House of Wolves --Matt Bronleewe

21. Informed Consent --Sandra Glahn

22. In His Image --James Beauseigneur

23. Isolation --Travis Thrasher

24. Leviathan --James Byron Huggins

25. Nightmare --Robin Parrish

26. Piercing the Darkness --Frank Peretti

27. Scream --Mike Dellosso

28. Self Incrimination --Randy Singer

29. Seventy Times Seven --Brandt Dodson

30. Stain of Guilt --Brandilyn Collins

31. Stolen Lives --Brian Reaves

32. Terminal Logic --Jefferson Scott

33. The Clouds Roll Away --Sibella Giorello

34. The Departed --Kathryn Mackel

35. The Face of God --Bill Myers

36. The Jericho Sanction --Oliver North

37. The Last Jihad --Joel Rosenberg

38. The List --Robert Whitlow

39. The Messenger of Magnolia Street --River Jordan

40. The Missionary --William Carmichael and David Lambert

41. The Oath --Frank Peretti

42. The Pawn --Steven James

43. The Testament --John Grisham

44. They Shall See God --Athol Dickson

45. Thr3e --Ted Dekker

46. Tomorrow We Die --Shawn Grady

47. Transgression --Randall Ingermanson

48. Vienna Prelude --Bodie Thoene

49. Waking Lazarus --T. L. Hines

50. When the Day of Evil Comes --Melanie Wells