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Subject: thriller?
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Date: Sun, 8-Dec-85 10:19:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  8 10:19:00 1985
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Nf-From: convexs.UUCP!ahearn    Dec  8 09:19:00 1985



So after a year, I finally read the Robert Ludlum thriller my
brother gave me. Within a few pages I'm completely hooked,
I wind up taking the blasted book to work, staying up until
2:00 AM to finish it, etc. etc. 

Now, I am completely unfamiliar with this ...um, genre. And 
I'm hooked. Anybody out there got any recommendations? I can't
wait `til my next score.

(The book I read, incidentally, is _The Bourne Identity_. I went 
 out and bought another Ludlum, _The Gemini Contenders_, but it just
 didn't do the job--except for the last few pages it just didn't 
 have the intensity of _Bourne_.)

I should add that I've looked through the shelves of a few bookstores,
trying to find what I'm after. Mostly, I keep getting directed to the
Mystery section, to look through old Agatha Christie and Bond books.
What I'm really looking for is the heavily political new-wave espionage
superthriller, hopefully done in a craftsmanlike way. If you have _any_
suggestions, let me know. 

Thanks,

Joe Ahearn
allegra!convex!ahearn