How to write a Thriller
I. WHAT IS A THRILLER?
The term 'thriller' applies to a variety of types of literature that makes the pulse RACE and ergo will make more money for its authors than any other genre of fiction. The men who write them are multi-millionaires. The work is not hard, your unconscious has quite a few ideas already and you don't even know it. So. What would you write about if you had to stick within the confines of THE different GENRES of THRILLERS?
First there's: the fantasy thriller, (like JAMES BOND/ Ian Fleming, where there's a totally original, unique, cosmic-sized, SATANIC evil guy as villain who's planning on shutting down the world. Usually somehow M15 knows and Britain wants him stopped. I would put a Rothschild tycoon who ran all the 7 oil companies and was dragging UK and America into the world's riskiest war. For the worst reasons. Now let your imagination play with that. Go On. That's your homework and participation in this class. Say he's running Donald Trump for president and that's only the beginning of a creepy plotted takeover.
Switch gears. There's the pint-sized fantasy thriller where Harry Potter fights the forces of darkness who are goblins. And don't underrate this JUVENILE FICTION CATEGORY as it made more money than any other group of thrillers in history for its author, now richer than the Queen.
Like reality? There's the legal thriller, (Grisham and some say Turow (not me.) have that world sewn up. Grisham's PELICAN BRIEF, " THE CLIENT and "THE FIRM" beat all.)
Then comes the venerable spy thriller, which started in WWI with Maugham and WW II with Eric Ambler, Graham Green, Cold War with James Bond of course, though he adds so much macho fantasy. There's John Le Carre, Daniel Silva and Robert Littell who own a hunk of that bailliwick and Frederic Forsyth whose "Day of the Jackal" assassin practiced shooting DeGaulle using this very watermelon up at top here, blowing a hole through it at fifty yards? Remember the simple little French cop who spends the whole movie trying to find him? Best filmed thriller ever, a film which opened up the subject of French Colonialism by the right wing, the battle against it by the left wing, ergo a political thriller. DANIEL SILVA is the top political thriller writer today. Mossad vs. Muslims. The starter kit. But go back 110 years to "SCARLET PIMPERNEL" best political thriller ever, FILMEDin 1934 with LESLIE HOWARD AND MERLE OBERSON https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025748/?ref_=nmbio_mbio RENT THAT FILM!
Then there's the JOURNALISTIC THRILLER. Stieg Larsson did the DRAGON TATOO TRILOGY, Best read ever.
And don't forget the historical action-adventure thriller like KEN FOLLETT does in PILLARS OF THE EARTH, set in 1120. OR the SCARLET PIMPERNEL, A 1908 play and later a 1934 superb movie set in the FRENCH REVOLUTION! The play spun off many SEQUEL books in the early 20th century. Written by a Countess who led a charmed life.
There are bodice ripper -HISTORICAL ACTION THRILLERS like those 50s author Frank Yerby specialized in. Who knew that all those white characters, that soap opera came out of a black author? I never did. They're thrillers though, with a lot of bodice ripping & consensual rapes throw in.
THEN THE PURELY HISTORICAL THRILLER. Josephine Tey did DAUGHTER OF TIME, extremely historical! Being RICHARD III's murder of his nephews! Tey's Sleuth Alan Grant is laid up in hospital and via books he solves the mystery that happened 400 yrs earlier. Richard didn't do it! ONE TERRIFIC BOOK!
There's the medical or scientific thriller which Michael Crichton does -- TERMINAL MAN, ANDROMEDA are more fantasy science or SCI FI than True Science. Think back to his cloned Dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, killer bugs in Prey or super germs in Andromeda, mutated Apes in Congo. He optioned the work of a similar talent, Dr. Robin Cook, who's now in the UK government) and produced the film COMA. The greatest idea he never had, I guess, he had to produce it.
PHILIP. K DICK wrote Sci-Fi Thrillers. BLADE RUNNER, Total Recall, and 7 more films made of his stuff so far. Richard Matheson, I AM LEGEND has had four movies adapted. Author Jack Finney did a book on time travel which many liked but the studio bought INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS from him. CREATURE-TRAVEL.
If you go thru old SCI FI NOVELLAS and short stories and find something 'high concept', you could wage your assault on Hollywood by doing a spec script on one you dig out of a bin. You're not WGA so you could. Guild scribes cannot spec out a script but a TYRO SPECKING is how KEN KESEY's Cuckoo's Nest book got ADAPTED! The script he did got bought by Kirk and Michael Douglas for Jack Nicholson to star in. An over the transom spec script got bought. Later a pro rewrote it.
Hollywood likes to hire its own top writers when they're spending 20 million to make a movie. A CHUM of mine was writing short stories for those junk magazines before WWII, He didn't like the money, had a high sci fi concept, airborne plague comes into harbor via sailors, the bug invades New Orleans. He wrote PANIC IN THE STREETS as an outline only, studio hired better known scripters yet he nailed an Oscar first time out to bat. Sci FI HIGH CONCEPT. Extrapolate it from something new, trendy. Gene splicing? DISEASED MONKEYS at FORT MEADE? MINIATURIZED ARTERIAL SPACESHIPS? IMMUNE SYSTEM JACK UP VITS?BRAIN CHANGERS?
There's the Cop PROCEDURAL or FBI or Police thriller, as popular on TV these days as on the printed page. It usually is 'procedural' in that it shows you how cops sleuth. BEST I've ever read come from MICHAEL CONNELLY, and he tells you HOW IT IS DONE. Best I've ever seen was ZODIAC with Ruffalo, Gyllenhaall and Downey. (These often border on being mysteries. HOW A MYSTERY IS DIFFERENT is the URL right BACK <=== HERE.) For a great, fun cop procedural mystery, there's the BONES SERIES by Kathy Reichs, it's a Morgue Examiner thriller, but again, bordering on mysteries. Kay Scarpetta is a morgue examiner, a whole series by Ms. Patricia Cornwell but her best is RIPPER CASE CLOSED which is amazing. Then, Michael Connelly's cop Bosch is procedural and great and grim fun.
Then there's the romantic thriller, like "Sleeping with the Enemy" where husbands beat up wives and maybe wives kill husbands or try to, a genre very suitable for women writers.These are rare and mostly are the purview of feminist disappointed women well out of their passion years.
Then there's the Stephen King type horror thriller, the Supernatural thriller, the Sci-fi Thriller (Colin Wilson's Sci-fi books "Space Vampires" qualifies.)It was made into a film.
The political thriller can be PRESENT DAY like Stieg Larsson's Sweden where a perverted, racist, right wing group makes life impossible for a hippie who set fire to her own abusive father. He was that awful and she was that BOLD. Dragon Tattoo trilogy is the most readable thing I've ever laid eyes on.
Then, there are historical thrillers. (Odessa File by Frederic Forsyth very gripping. Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett like Odessa set around time of WWII. Irishman Jack Higgins wrote "THE EAGLE HAS LANDED" on Churchill's kidnapping, FABULOUS, his best......Follett has some new ones, the Pillars of Heaven, two huge novels, big hits, set in 12th century England. So it's a ROYAL THRILLER. SEE list of The BEST POLITICAL FLICKS by googling "best political films" and "Best thriller." I found a list --click on it!
You would NOT think they could do a religious thriller, but then Dan Brown comes along with THE DA VINCI CODE and fries the head honchos of religion (a secret OPUS DEI cult conspiracy burrowed inside the Vatican and his ORIGIN and INFERNO.DIGITAL FORTRESS is OKAY. Dump the rest). Similars are: The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry is similar: a secret church cult THE TEMPLARS, which has a search for buried, Templar gold, assasinations to hide clues, gun chases.. but he bores me. Not gripping enough. He depends on the Mc-GUFFIN factor. A writer's off-stage strategy to buoy up the plot. The ancient Gold was this book's McGuffin. DEFINE MC GUFFIN? Okay. "the sought item, often it's evidence, the final key to the cipher that will clue everybody to the problem solved." That offstage deus ex machina that will make the plot FLOAT.
Then there's the OLDTIME religious thriller. Remember Sean Connery in Umberto Eco's "THE NAME OF THE ROSE", a novel translated from Italian which is an elegant, Monkish thriller & best seller based on a secret, hidden philosophy of Aristotle on COMEDY (the McGuffin) that the Church prudishly destroyed, all except this one copy, right? Ellis Peters did a series of Brother Cadfael mysteries. 12th century Monk is the sleuth. Same exact period as PILLARS OF THE EARTH.
Michael Crighton writes "WORST CASE SCENARIO" SCIENCE thrillers, Andromeda Strain, Westworld and all his books turned into movies, flicks got made. Do you remember a high-tech thriller called the CHINA SYNDROME? Imagine one involving computers. Dan Brown did one in DIGITAL FORTRESS.
My particular fave due to troubled times we live in is the POLITICAL THRILLER. Click there for list of best films in this genre. Rent them! AND THIS OTHER LIST of the TOP 25 THRILLERS. Watch the whole series, take you one week. Next, GOOGLE SEARCH on this theme. "list of best political films" "Greatest political thrillers," etc. The movies mentioned may already be in your memory. I"ll wait til you get back. Go on, Click! In fact, do that on every category that you can define, those suggested here.
You can see that the thriller genre can mix with anything else that you like, know or are interested in. New types of thrillers are constantly being invented so get out your notepad and brainstorm. What gives them all their common ground is the intensity of the emotions they create, particularly those of apprehension and exhilaration, of excitement and breathlessness. Fear even. By definition, if thrillers do not thrill, they aren’t doing their job. Sometimes, they build rhythmically to a rousing climax. Other times, they start at top speed and never ease off. At their best, they have an archetypal, primordial essence (think Homer and the Beowulf poet) addressing fundamental concerns —survival, the nature of humanity, the heroic struggle between right and wrong—that date back to ancient myth.
Read: http://fmwriters.com/Visionback/Issue29/Thrillers.htmAnd what is mythology but a thriller built around human frailities. So let's add the frailty thriller. Inside the mind of a serial killer, a frail one.
"A thriller isn't just about someone being murdered. There is always something bigger and more important at stake behind the murder that may endanger more lives. Where in a mystery the motive for a crime such as insurance fraud can be greed, in a thriller mere money doesn't come across as believable for all the terrible things the antagonist will do. Can anyone imagine a low-key motive like greed for any serial killer book? "
"Thrillers have Complex plots. Because the storylines are bigger, the plot itself becomes more complex to help pull off the storyline. Imagine a plot about assassinating a major world leader. "TEN DAYS TO RAMA" was one, about Gandhi. "THE PACKAGE' a film with Tommy Lee Jones, not a book however, but a real thriller. Daniel Silva has the POPE being targeted.
There is a way to do such an ambitious story in a simple way and have it be believable. WITHOUT it reading like a newspaper story. Dan Brown's Angels & Demons, a popular thriller, weaves a complex story to deal with the death of the Pope and how the new Pope is selected. Note: His Da Vinci Code goes back to Jesus' romantic life then looks around for the heirs of Jesus. Sophie, the GIRL in the piece, is a fifty times great grandchild of Jesus and Mary Magdalene & the last & only living relative of Jesus Christ, the final twig of the Merovingian line.
So back to listing the different types of thrillers. Here's a THRILLER LIST. Researched it myself It has all the different categories of thriller listed.
But here's a new category for you, the SCIENCE FICTION POLITICAL THRILLER which would be an extrapolation of some horror that could come from things that we're already on the border of here on this planet. Maybe in the fifties it would be a nuclear bomb plot or today, Killer diseases not escaping from labs, but being used by our GOV for POPULATION CONTROL. Not exactly in the news but on the INTERNET. EVERYWHERE!
http://www.thehorse.com/PrintArticle.aspx?ID=10527 ANY good non-fiction book with an expose of something SHOCKING, HUGE, lethal and SCARY could become that next, hit thriller. FIST OF GOD by Frederic Forsyth was one such and it's a riveting book about Saddam having mega weaponry buried all over Iraq's mts. WRITTEN before it happened! Or didn't happen, as the case may be.Bottom line, try to be like Forsyth (ex newspaper man) or Michael Crichton (ex doctor) search around in the most scary threats to mankind in News/ Journalism, Science and go into Speculative non-fiction and turn it into a whopping novel. For instance, here's a book:
Blowing Up Russia
by Alexander Felshtinsky, Yuri Litvinenko
Gibson Square, 304 pagesAlexander Litvinenko is a 20-year veteran of the Russian military, achieving the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and serving in the KGB Department for the Analysis of Criminal Organizations, only to be arrested for disclosing a number of illegal orders he'd received. (He is a conscientious whistleblower). He was imprisoned. He escaped from Russia and received political asylum in Britain in May 2001 PUtin put uranium in his sushi and he died, in 2016 UK is opening an enquiry into whether PUTIN ordered it or not. Yuri Felshtinsky studied history at the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute and immigrated to America in 1978 where he obtained a doctorate in history from Rutgers. Felshtinsky is a recognized expert on Soviet Affairs and the other of several books on Russian history and politics. In Blowing Up Russia: Terror From Within, Litvinenko and Felshtinsky collaborate to reveal a scathing accusation of the Russian special services, holding them responsible for acts of terror, kidnappings, contract killings, and efforts to steer Russia back to being a dictatorship. Blowing Up Russia also strenuously denounces the war in Chechnya for its deleterious toll on human life and freedom. A sobering, persuasively charged account, Blowing Up Russia is an essential text for Soviet Studies academic reference collections, and should be mandatory reading for anyone having political, cultural, or economic dealings with present-day Russia.
These fellows have ratted out PUTIN for doing gruesome, wacky False Flag operations, radiating their enemies to death, blowing up schoolchildren and pretending it was separatists who dunnit, giving him cause to reactivate the KGB (which he ran.) And then, the doomsday plot has PUTIN threatening NATO and reawakening the Commie Dragon with its BOMBS (oh, he did that last week, didn't he? Sigh.) Still, Putin's a nasty pip and I can see a great movie there. A few years back (though now it's old hat,) the smart money would be on plots with RUSSIAN military selling all kinds of weapons to terrorist groups (upon the breakup of the USSR). Who shot down American Airlines with a stinger missile/ Some client of a Ruski. Fershure.
A GLOBAL WARMING thriller might be good. But who's the villain? A CEO at an oil company? If that strikes you as an important theme, read "THE FORMULA" by STEVE SHAGAN which was a 70's thriller about gasoline and the harm it could do. (Brando starred in movie version as the evil CEO.) So this would be a CROOKED CAPITALISM, CORPORATE MALFEASANCE THRILLER. Meryl Streep did a few of these. Bio of Karen Silkwood was a whistleblower thriller. Or a Corporate malfeasance thriller.
A good spine for a plot would be a killer ILLUMINATI (probably ILLUMINATUS, as it's singular... these are the 13 families who rule the world.) Have some blue blood Vlad the Impaler hire a string of scientists to destroy all middle class idiots and poor people. Drive them stupid, brainless & passive by flouridating their water or decimate their number with bacillus. Why? Their pullcarts get in the way when he wants to double park his Bentley outside the Ritz and order thirteen desserts on a tray at once and take a bite out of each.
Figure out how the hired scientists sowed all the lakes in America with brain-eating lethal amoebas, figuring the middle class will be stupid enough to swim in those lakes no matter what warnings. Now that bug actually exists. Nobody knows how it came from Brazil to American lakes but it did.
And another horrid fact, 40 Bioscientists were murdered in last few years, all at once, an amazing cluster indicating intent. Build a plot around that and oh, say the AMOEBA of the moment ---one that only works in America with global warming heating lake sufficiently for them to thrive & I bet you have a novel!
http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/blog/2007/10/sundays_brainea.htmlThe HERO has to beat this whole dark plot or the thriller's no good. He can't stumble out at story's end a LOSER. He has to fix it. So he'd have to measure, find, kill the amoebas. Or kill the off the ILLUMINATUS who's behind these bought scientists.
I don't see any contemporary thriller writers tackling the problems of all of us being slaves on an Oligarch Planet where shadowy men in Bentleys have a "die already you peons!" agenda. There's riveting amounts of Lifeboat Theory going on in the heads of the Illuminati or Oligarchs. (I'm alright Jack, screw you! Toss the nobodies out of the lifeboat?) No author that I know of has made his villain a Rothschild, a Bush or Harriman. If you have the stones, hit MR. BIG
That is the reason that I love Daniel Silva as he goes after the industrial size villains. HE WRITES POLITICAL "ISSUE" THRILLERS, mostly related to Israeli issues. Read his:"Unlikely Spy," "Marching Season", Mark of the Assassin," "The English Assassin, "Death in Vienna. "The Kill Artist, and "Confessor," and the "Messenger." a buck each at ABES. ) I love Daniel Silva because he attacks huge institutions, goes back in his research to SECRET, historical events (BIG ONES) and goes after the actual real life villain like a Terrier shaking a geriatric rat. He's tearing up the Nazis in Unlikely Spy. He sympathizes with the IRA, denounces the Belfast Protestants in Marching Season. He goes after the modern day stolen, Nazi art thieves and their cohorts in crime, the SWISS BANKERS, who together 'disappeared' France's art troves, taking from both Jews and museums...in The English Assassin. He savages the Swiss mercilessly. And then he goes after the VATICAN and POPE PIUS XII for endorsing the murder of Jews as they wanted Holy lands back and were anti-semitic and had been for two thousand years, puzzling when their main man was a Jew boy.
Where's Silva gonna keep all his money taxfree now with a string of best sellers? He viciously tore Swiss bankers a new one and then the SWISS citizenry, too, their character, not just the banks for aiding the Nazis and for still having 30 billion in art and MONEY hidden, taken from Jews but the ordinary bourgeois SWISS! To cap it, he tells exactly how the bankers and Gov won't give the art or their bank accounts back to the legit heirs of dead Jews with their catch 22 restrictions. Ya gotta LOVE this guy. His latest, MOSCOW RULES hit #1 on NYTIMES best seller LIST.
Many of Daniel Silva's books are set in current time where his enemy is the Saudi Sheik(s) who pays for all Muslim terrorism. No target is too big for this little Rottweiler of an author. Actually, he's not little. He's talk, dark and very handsome --just like his mentor Frederick Forsyth, the King, Day of the Jackal, The Icon, the Fourth Protocol, Odessa File, ICON, FIST OF GOD and many, many others.
Silva has stepped into the new niche in thriller writing: the DELPHIC THRILLER, where an annointed, appointed person (his hero Gabriel is MOSSAD) sniffs the finest gases issuing from a crack in the earth and can smell HELL. Voices speak to him. In this trance, he stumbles on what's really going on. Silva describes clandestine groups beyond Al Qaida, that nobody even knew about. He walks into the slums of Lebanon where they live. That's the definition of DELPHIC. Extra sensory. He reports that the Islam/ Muslim war is heavily funded by our own petro dollars. Every gallon you put in your tank funds guns pointed at your children's head. He tells us that Saudis wage a much more extensive-than-thought war against the liberal west as it hates our sexy movies with free living ladies. So Hollywood should fight back and make a movie or tv show where Saudi shieks are the villains, have Dustin Hoffman play him from the back seat of a Bentley.
That is a good crack to work. I'd get my fishing rod and go there if I could, in fact I thought of a plot, all on my own, about a murdered Time Mag journalist working the INDONESIA beat. In my take on it, TIME MAG lady is researching a book that makes MUSLIMS look dumb and paranoid but she stumbles on a huge conspiracy out of JAKARTA and the military murders her! It's a real story by the way. That's my take on her death. Not my gal pal's INTERPRETATION. My friend's a writer, her best friend was killed and she imagined that the BOYFRIEND did it. Jakarta Government says lady boozed, took a fall. My gal pal is certain the TIME REPORTER was beat to death by a lover. This story would pivot on the Western model of emancipated sexual single girls and the Muslim man, which is the basic fissure running down the planet these days. Indonesia is a MUSLIM country dominated by macho guys who make women wear veils, which has a military that genocides the spiritually liberated Hindus and Buddhists within its own borders like Nixon murdering hippies. People rave about Myanmar but JAKARTA, Indonesia is way worse.
II. THE RITUALS & SET DRESSING FOR ALL THRILLERS
a.) PLENTY OF PEREGRINATION! Hero must leap from one vivid city or country to the next with plenty of exact descriptions of the weather, the pubs, cafes, buildings, exact street names, the types of people walking around. Exotic names, Vienna, Constantinople must come every few chapters. In his best thriller, "The SPY WHO COULDN'T SLEEP, his hero Evan Tanner has to make an ODYSSEY across Europe to get in the back door of Armenia and get the GOLD.. Author LAWRENCE BLOCK does the best job I've ever seen in this regard, describing first the TURKS who jail him in Chapter I, then Armenians who sent him on this Gold Seeking journey, when he does the Backstory of how he got in jail. Then the little Turkish jailer who takes him in chains to Italy and whom Tanner outsmarts. Then Tanner starts running to Ireland. He's got the Irish people and landscape and lifestyle to a T. Tanner has to run fast, to Spain, totally captures the SPANISH, (that wannabe hairdresser was hysterical!) and then the stoic GREEKs. This fine Novel rivals the travels of ALICE in WONDERLAND, the Spaniard was the Mad hatter. Tanner descends into landscapes that ring true and amuse but which are TELLING.b.) TAKE TIME TO MAKE THE SECONDARIES VIVID. In "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" first timer John Berendt creates wonderful, eccentric, fleshed-out secondaries. I vividly recall in the flick Clint Eastwood directed, the black transexual hooker, a comedic masterpiece. This book was 216 weeks on Best Seller list. Berendt's next, non-fiction, shot to the top in sales, too. ROBERT CORAM does that with ATLANTA HEAT. His girl reporter KITTY makes COURTNEY LOVE look tame.
c.) NOT JUST A PULSE but a THROBBING PULSE! When you do the plot outline, make sure it looks like the Swiss Alps. Peaks and valleys. Never a dull moment. Characters ride up the roller coaster to top of the mountain, barely see the vista when they're THROWN down! They build their empire then lose it all. They're back on the street, scuffling, poor, starving even, if you're Charles Dickens. They're safe in a warm home then they're out in the snow endangered. They're attacked, near death and then just as the bad guys seize power, they're saved or they think of something brilliant to save themselves. Allow a pause for the BAD guys to regroup, then shortly, they're endangered again. PILLARS OF THE EARTH an historical thriller, has this pulse, this rhythm. This Technique. Never a dull moment. All the good authors design a zig-zag into the plot. Peaks must be scarier, valleys are just resting places til the next peak comes.STIEG LARSSON's Tattoo Trilogy is the best ever at this. And the other winner, FREDERICK FORSYTH'S ODESSA FILE.
d.) LARGER THAN LIFE, HEROIC CENTRAL CHARACTERS.Your readers have to love the hero and nobody likes a loser. We will identify more with your main man if his handling of events defines him as a ballsy, fierce, smart hero. We'll be stuck to the pages like gum if we feel warm about him. Larsson's hero was all that his jourjnalistic risks made him heroic but he had been set up, trapped, framed, villified, slandered, sued and put out of business at book's start! IT WORKED! HE HAD ME AT HELLO! And main thing in all writing characters is creating the hero being BELOVED BY READER at first chapter! LOVE makes us read. READERS LIKE PEOPLE.
e.) A CULT, SECRET SOCIETY, as an enemy. Lot of books kick the VATICAN around these days. Steve Berry has the Vatican's secret soldiers, the Templars. Dan Brown has not one but two secret societies Priory of Sion is the one keeping Jesus' line alive, and the Vatican has the actual OPUS DEI out of St. Peter's as the Villain. Daniel Silva has the Crux Vera inside the Vatican (a group consecrated to hiding the Pope's complicity in paving the way for the Nazis, turning his head during Holocaust then hiding and relocating Nazis after the war. (Rolf Hochhuth's THE DEPUTY covers this theme. A hardcopy of it can be ordered online. VERY CONTROVERSIAL. It was published as a book but it is a theatrical play to read like a novel. Daniel Silva is a real rottweiler on this Swiss complicity in the Nazis issue. For him the KILLERS never lose their stench.So maybe he's more like a beagle.
f.) BLOOD AND GUTS! This gets us back to the basic element of fiction which is: a TERRIBLE DEED which could create future horrors needs both sleuthing then righting. A murderer must be apprehended so he will not do this again. Also, genocide must be punished. So ponder how many wrongs haven't been righted! World needs a Bosnian/Croatian Serb thriller. A RUMANIAN thriller. Those horrid, sick orphanages bear watching. The Americans' genocidal deeds in 60's Vietnam need resolution. THE WHO DUNNIT is about why they did it and how to find the main brigands. PUTIN needs watching. He assassinates his whistleblowers like Litvinenko and that girl reporter. THE LIST IS HERE. You can research and pull off intensely accurate, evocative RUSSIAN settings and themes without an airplane ticket. Robert Littel does RUSKI THRILLERS. MARTIN CRUZ SMITH did GORKY PARK. Huge best seller.
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