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    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      The best books of the week
      Siberian skulduggery and a Peston page-turner — the best new thrillers

      From the Rwandan genocide to death at the Bank of England, sinister stories of spies, politics and exile

      Book covers of Robert Peston’s The Crash, Josh Haven’s The Siberia Job and Ava Glass’s The Traitor
    • Thursday, 17 August, 2023
      Review
      A Bird in Winter — political intrigue and personal dilemmas

      With several cliffhanger chapters, Louise Doughty’s latest novel is a consummate psychological thriller about a female spy navigating the corridors of power

    • Wednesday, 21 June, 2023
      Summer Books 2023
      Best summer books of 2023: Thrillers

      Adam LeBor selects his best mid-year reads

    • Monday, 22 May, 2023
      Review
      Best new thrillers — dog day afternoons and bohemian intrigue

      Vividly drawn characters blaze trails across small-town Arkansas and Nazi-occupied Oslo

    • Friday, 19 May, 2023
      Review
      Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow — a locked-room mystery for the tech era

      The first in a new series of thrillers features an ageing Californian hacker in the hunt for a billion-dollar blockchain

    • Monday, 3 April, 2023
      Review
      Thriller round-up — from the Gulag to Glasgow grit

      A gripping selection includes cold war conspiracies and a dark turn for Scottish politics

      Montage of book covers
    • Monday, 30 January, 2023
      Review
      Thriller round-up — Midlands Noir to international double crosses

      An action-packed selection includes cheering portrayals of women who have agency — and muscles

      Book covers of (from left) ‘Codename Faust’, ‘Damascus Station’ and ‘Hellyer’s Line’
    • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
      Review
      My Father’s House by Joseph O’Connor — rebel with a cause

      A motorcycle-riding Irish priest is the driving force in this polyphonic literary thriller set during the Nazi occupation of Rome

    • Friday, 25 November, 2022
      FT SeriesBest books of the year 2022
      Best books of 2022: Thrillers

      Adam LeBor selects his must-read titles

    • Wednesday, 9 November, 2022
      Review
      Action-packed spy tales — from Russian defectors to a Nazi Britain

      These fast-paced page-turners take in alternate history, a bullet in the head and terrors in Tokyo

      collage of three book jackets
    • Monday, 19 September, 2022
      Review
      Dirty cash, icy chills and 007 in peril — the best new thrillers

      Undercover agents deliver a 2022 James Bond reboot and shadowy threats from Alaska to Berlin

    • Thursday, 21 July, 2022
      Review
      Back in the USSR: the best new political thrillers to read now

      Cold war era novels inspired by the long, deadly reach of Moscow’s secret service

    • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
      Summer Books 2022
      Best summer books of 2022: Thrillers

      Adam LeBor selects his best mid-year reads

    • Wednesday, 25 May, 2022
      Review
      Spies in Canaan by David Park — a life in the shadows

      In the Belfast writer’s new thriller, a retired spy is forced to re-examine his past and finds the line between good and evil hard to discern

      A man strolls along an empty beach
    • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
      ReviewFiction
      Best new thrillers — explosive tales of spies, lies and danger

      Fast-paced tales of intrigue from Leningrad to Lisbon. Plus echoes of George Smiley — and an illustrated edition of le Carré himself

    • Tuesday, 15 February, 2022
      Review
      Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson — breathing new life into the literary thriller

      A propulsive mystery that delights and deceives as two strangers’ lives intersect

    • Monday, 31 January, 2022
      Review
      Scandi-noir, Russian London and a rogue Navy Seal — a round-up of new thrillers

      Hans Rosenfeldt, the creator of TV show ‘The Bridge’, delivers a dark, engrossing read in ‘Cry Wolf’

    • Saturday, 29 January, 2022
      Q&AThe Questionnaire
      Dean Koontz: ‘When I finally put behind me all I’d been taught about writing, I began to sell my fiction’

      Q&A with the writer on his wife of 56 years, Cabernet Sauvignon and wanting an aircraft carrier

      Dean Koontz
    • Thursday, 18 November, 2021
      FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2021
      Best books of 2021: Thrillers

      Adam LeBor selects his must-read titles

    • Monday, 8 November, 2021
      Review
      Genre round-up — the best in thrillers

      An exodus from Moscow; undercover in central Russia; a network of agents in wartime Berlin; and a hitman with a heart

    • Monday, 27 September, 2021
      ReviewBooks
      Genre round-up — the best in thrillers

      From cabals, betrayal and sex in champagne-fuelled 1990s London to international intrigue of Russian spies and Islamic terrorists, here’s a selection of the latest gripping releases

    • Monday, 16 August, 2021
      Review
      Genre round-up — the best in thrillers

      The cold war, wonder drugs, money-laundering, jihadis and the eastern front add a frisson to these latest gripping releases

    • Monday, 5 July, 2021
      Review
      Genre round-up — the best new thrillers

      Contagion in the Arctic Circle; the hunt for a Russian mole; undercover in Hamburg; and a superpower conspiracy

    • Friday, 25 June, 2021
      FT Series
      Summer books 2021
    • Thursday, 24 June, 2021
      FT SeriesSummer books 2021
      Summer books of 2021: Thrillers

      Adam LeBor’s selection of the best mid-year reads

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