Action/Adventure Books for Smart People
Discover the best action/adventure books for smart readers! Explore thrilling, intellectually stimulating novels packed with excitement, depth, and brilliant storytelling.
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Under and Alone
by William Queen
In 1998, William Queen was a veteran law enforcement agent with a lifelong love of motorcycles and a lack of patience with paperwork. When a …
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The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
Sentenced to life for a crime he did not commit, the hero escapes, determined to exact revenge from his enemies.
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The Beach
by Alex Garland
The irresistible novel that was adapted into a major motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The Khao San Road, Bangkok -- first stop for the hordes …
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The Great Train Robbery
by Michael Crichton
"A nineteenth-century version of THE STING...Crichton fascinates us." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live …
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Kon-Tiki
by Thor Heyerdahl
The story of the Pacific journey by six men on a raft in search of the path taken by Kon-Tiki, a white voyager, 1500 years …
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The Andromeda Strain
by Michael Crichton
"Relentlessly suspenseful...A hair-raising experience." THE PITTSBURGH PRESS The United States government stands warned that sterilization procedures for returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee …
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The Hot Zone
by Richard Preston
The virus kills nine out of ten of its victims. Its effects are so quick and so gruesome that even biohazard experts are terrified. It …
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The Hunt for Red October
by Tom Clancy
Both the Americans and the Soviets commence an intense naval search when a trusted and skilled Soviet naval officer defects--using the USSR's most valuable nuclear …