Action Adventure Fiction - Christchurch City Libraries
In this day and age everyone needs a hero, and these pages are full of them. The perfect antidote to boredom, any of these titles could be the premise of a high stakes action film; coming with a large helping of adrenaline, intrigue, and danger. For high-octane adventure and thrills look no further! A Christchurch City Libraries list.
(Jack Reacher #24) Tension and drama, loads of action and brutality, and another chance for good to triumph over evil, all in a modern setting of regional America. Rival gangs with an uneasy peace dominate a city and its businesses, and…
(NUMA Files #17) The modern adventure fiction master draws links across time in thrilling fashion in this new offering. A grave is robbed in 1074, a pilot goes missing in 1927, and today a fishing trawler carrying a mysterious cargo sinks…
(Jason Bourne #4) In his first installment of the smash hit series created by Robert Ludlum, Eric Van Lastbader hits the bullseye by delivering in all the key areas for high octane, intricately plotted spy thriller action. Framed for the…
(Colter Shaw #1) A gripping and page turning read from one of the best in the genre, and the first of a new series. Colter Shaw is a man who was raised for survival. It's been many years since he was back at the secluded family ranch…
(Jack Ryan #26) Marc Cameron has taken over from the inventor of the modern techno-thriller and has delivered the 26th book to feature the eponymous character Jack Ryan. This is a military grade adventure full of tech wizardry and…
(Sigma Force #15) Sigma Force is back for #15 and more action-packed pages full of nail-biting suspense and exotic international settings. We descend into a world of gods and monsters - ancient artifacts, once thought the legends of myth,…
(Jack West Jr #5) Jack is on the hunt for three cities of legend before the greatest hunters in history catch him. His previous actions have sent kingdoms into turmoil and Jack must move quickly to avert disaster. Non-stop action with…
(Cotton Malone #15) Malone is sent to an auction with a very particular entry fee - one of the weapons of Christ. They've started going missing from collections around the world and what's on offer at this auction might just be the answer.…
(Mitch Rapp #1) Intense and fasted pace - the modern spy thriller adventure themes are so solid it's little wonder they made a movie from it! Student athlete Mitch Rapp survives a horrific aircraft bombing, one in which his classmates and…
(Gabriel Allon #19) The future of the Middle East hangs in the balance and centres around the brutal abduction of a school girl. Her princely Saudi father is suspected of killing a journalist – is this retaliation... or something made to…
This author wrote truly engaging adventure stories and this is no exception. It’s 1876 and the race is on! Archaeologists are hell bent of retrieving the big haul of dinosaur fossils in the wild west, and they’ll stop at nothing to achieve…
An unwitting petty criminal is deceived in Dallas by the government and the result is a bloodbath. John Wells is called in to determine what happened and obtain information from an asset in Colombia. As the mysteries unfold he discovers…
(Puppet Master #1) We're at the centre of the war for intelligence in this techno-thriller pitching old foes the US and Russia against each other once again. This time the field is Eastern Europe where Louis Massina, a revolutionary in the…
First in the 'Klara Walldeen' series, Klara is working as a political aide in Brussels when she accidentally discovers a secret so dangerous it launches her into an action-packed game of cat-and-mouse across the European continent. There's…
This is a high-octane, sweat inducing, thrill ride that moves at break neck speed. Captain Bill Hoffman is a coastal airways pilot who finds out that his wife and daughter have been taken hostage by terrorists while preparing for take-off.…
An epic novel from a seasoned story teller, 'Never' describes an alarming (and highly plausible) threat of nuclear war. International tensions rise as we follow a variety of story lines, threads spanning the globe, that culminate in…
It's high octane SAS military action as young officer Danny Black gets called into a new mission just as his gruelling tour is coming to an end. With trouble reaching boiling point in Syria and every faction backed and supported by foreign…
Code breaking, secret societies, murder, and intrigue are all on the cards in this first book in the Robert Langdon series. It's an international thrill ride as our accidental hero and his accomplice take twists and turns in their bid to…
When Amos Decker's promising football career is cut short by injury, he pursues a life of policing instead. One night after a stakeout, he returns home to his worst nightmare; his family gone, despair leads him to a life on the streets and…
Mac MacCormick has the life. Returned from active duty and a decorated vet, he fancies himself a ladies man and spends his days sunning aboard his fishing charter boat in Key West. Until he is on the receiving end of an offer too good to…
