The best Assassination Thrillers books: Reddit reviews

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I believe this is from a book called Wild Thing: A Novel by Josh Bazell

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the BP story is a discombobulated mess... Can't decide if it's better or worse off as things like TRANSCENDENCE got cancelled (people scanned into computer become immortal robots.. WTF does this have to do with GHOST RECON).

They lost me with the the whole DEEP STATE kidnapping operators so they could use them for mind controlled drones... Just GTFO! Who wrote this garbage?!?!?

MOTHERLAND stands alone, as having a cohesive plot/objective.

If they had really wanted to do Spec OPS "ghost team" versus drone/tech then they should have just bought this guy's book: https://www.amazon.com/Kill-Decision-Daniel-Suarez/dp/0451417704

Published a decade ago. The author has an extensive IT background. The basic premise was plausible then, imagine how much further we’ve advanced since. Kill Decision https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0073XV2W2/

Reading your post makes me angry at Congress, because you're right. It's likely an argument (/s) for term limits-but not those term limits that everyone talks about.

(Good fictional (not a guide) book that captures the disfunction of Congress and D.C. thanks to partisan politics.)

Fuck that.

https://www.amazon.com/Power-Dog-Don-Winslow/dp/1400096936/ref=nodl_

There’s a good place to start. This book series will kick your teeth in. And it’s almost all completely true. I’ve listened to it three times on audible and I’m about to start it again.

I have to recommend For When Light Meets Dark it sounds perfect for you!

Its a short story collection so good for someone new to reading and they are very appropriate if you like things such as crime ( I saw you said things like the godfather)

I would really recommend For When Light Meets Dark it is a collection of short stories and I really think you would enjoy some of them!

Strongly recommend it

There's a book which is free if you have Kindle unlimited called For When Light Meets Dark which is a short collection of short stories!

Short stories and an easy read yet really thought provoking: For when light meets dark

Thank you!!! It's called For When Light Meets Dark! It's just a collection of short stories I wrote - I have a massive book series I've been working on since I was a teenager which I also hope to publish but it's nowhere near ready yet! I've always loved writing! Here's the link as it may be harder to find

For When Light Meets Dark

Don Winslow has a couple novels dealing with the cartels, and the efforts to fight them. While they are fictional, they do track pretty closely with reality, and go into a lot of the politics, corruption, and economics involved. It's a lot easier to understand when you have a full picture of what exactly is involved.

They are definitely worth checking out. They are fairly graphic, but nothing that will shock someone who just looked at that album.

• The Power of the Dog
• The Cartel

The two books are a series, but they don't strictly need to be read in order. I read The Cartel first, and didn't feel like I missed out on anything.

I work in the judiciary, and based on what I can tell, so many of us are broken, and we turn to so many different forms of abuse--self and otherwise--in reaction.

I'll check out that book. Thank you. 2 books which informed me tremendously about the effect of drugs on society were novels, of all things, written by a fella named Don Winslow. First was Power of the Dog, and the other was its sequel, The Cartel. If you're familiar with the movie Sicario, its tone, substance, characters could have been drawn directly from these books.

But in addition to the issues you describe, there's so much profit in drug-dealing, and so much corruption and other business opportunities arise from it, that a surprising amount of society seems to have an interest in keeping them illegal.

All of this because we're so fragile.

Stephen King’s "11/22/63" is about revisiting and revising the past. It's quite long but has similar conundrums as LiS. Check it out: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1451627297/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1451627297&linkCode=as2&tag=iamafishdotor-20&linkId=RHKZP6MQ4QXF3FT6

Think this is Leo preparing to play the role of Art Keller in the upcoming Ridley Scott film, The Cartel.

Based on the books, The Power of the Dog and The Cartel, released recently. I've just been lucky enough to read the latter, absolutely briliant. Would seriously recommend it to anyone!

This is the one he'll win an Oscar for

Book 1
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400096936/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1?pf_rd_p=1944687742&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=1101874996&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0WRW59PWZ4J9G63H7EWT

Book 2

http://www.amazon.com/The-Cartel-novel-Don-Winslow/dp/1101874996

Since you seem to be more into the Hacker thing - like history of it all - maybe Ready Player One might be exactly your speed. I personally didn't like the book, but so many other people did, I'm likely the aberration.

If you want just running from one thing to the next, you might like Beat the Reaper - it will definitely entertain you!

For hacking/running together, I always, always recommend Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson (but I'm kinda getting sick of my constant pro-Stephenson pushes on here, :P so... yeah, read it if you want to read awesome.)

There's a fantastic fiction book which goes into the realm of what can happen and how terrifying it might be to have full autonomous weapons in the world. It's one of the scariest books I've ever read because at this point, it'll come true in the near future (maybe 20-30 years) unless we do something about it: Kill Decision.