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From: wilson_3@h-sc1.UUCP (bradford wilson)
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Subject: Re: thriller?
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Date: Wed, 11-Dec-85 04:51:33 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 11 04:51:33 1985
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> 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_.)
> 
> 
> Joe Ahearn
> allegra!convex!ahearn

              Bourne Identity happens to be Ludlum's best book, and
one of the best the genre has to offer. Nothing else he has written
can compare, although The_Osterman_Weekend comes close in parts.
              You might try Craig Thomas -- he wrote the movie book
"Firefox" and its sequel. Another of my favorite authors is Jack Higgins.
He wrote The Eagle Has Landed and many other excellent books.
              You've probably alread read the good Alistair Maclean
books -- Guns of Navarone, et. al., but have you read The_Black_Shrike?
All his new stuff is terrible, but he was once a good and exciting
author (but I STILL hate Ice Station Zebra!)

                  Good luck! you might mail me to notify me of our
success...
                              A Wombat .:.

                       (aka h-sc1!wilson_3@harvard)
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