The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan http://www.feedbooks.com/book/41 urn:isbn:0879238712 en 1915 Novels Thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps shows...an attractive man, not too young...and not too old, since he must have the knowledge of maturity and substantial experience on which he will draw while being able to respond to the physical rigors of chase and pursuit. Let the hero, who appears at first to be relatively ordinary, and who thinks of himself as commonplace, be drawn against his best judgment into a mystery he only vaguely comprehends, so that he and the reader may share the growing tension together. Set him a task to perform...Place obstacles in his path the enemy, best left as ill-defined as possible, so that our hero cannot be certain who he might trust. See to it that he cannot turn to established authority to help, indeed that the police, the military, the establishment will be actively working against him. Then set a clock ticking... This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/41.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/41.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/41.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/41.mobi Geek Mafia Rick Dakan http://www.feedbooks.com/book/917 urn:isbn:0977264904 en 2006 Novels Thriller Fired from a job he hated at a company he loved, videogame designer Paul Reynolds is drowning his sorrows in late-morning margaritas when he meets an alluring, pink-haired conwoman named Chloe. With her gang of techno-pirate friends, Chloe helps Paul not only take revenge on his former employers, but also extort a small fortune from them in the process. What more could a recently unemployed, over-worked videogame designer in Silicon Valley ask for? In return for Chloe’s help, Paul agrees to create counterfeit comic books for one of her crew’s criminal schemes. In the process finds himself drawn right into the center of their wild, seductive, underground world. He falls in for their fun loving, drug fueled “off the grid” lifestyle almost as fast as he falls head over heels for Chloe. Wary of the Crew’s darker side, but eager to impress both the girl and the gang, Paul uses his game design expertise to invent a masterful con of his own. If all goes according to plan, it will be one for the ages. But can he trust any of them, or is he the one who’s really being conned? Inspired by author Rick Dakan’s own eventful experiences in the videogame and comic book industries, "Geek Mafia", satisfies the hunger in all of us to buck the system, take revenge on corporate America, and live a life of excitement and adventure. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/917.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/917.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/917.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/917.mobi The Most Dangerous Game Richard Connell http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3638 urn:isbn:1604500298 en 1924 Short Fiction Crime/Mystery Adventure Thriller "The Most Dangerous Game" features as its main character a big-game hunter from New York, who becomes shipwrecked on an isolated island in the Caribbean, and is hunted by a Russian aristocrat. The story is an inversion of the big-game hunting safaris in Africa and South America that were fashionable among wealthy Americans in the 1920s. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3638.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3638.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3638.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3638.mobi The Prisoner of Zenda Anthony Hope http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3582 urn:isbn:0141033746 en 1894 Novels Romance Adventure Thriller The Prisoner of Zenda is an adventure novel by Anthony Hope, published in 1894. The king of the fictional country of Ruritania is abducted on the eve of his coronation, and the protagonist, an English gentleman on holiday who fortuitously resembles the monarch, is persuaded to act as his political decoy in an attempt to save the situation. The villainous Rupert of Hentzau gave his name to the sequel published in 1898, which is included in some editions of this novel. The books were extremely popular and inspired a new genre of Ruritanian romance, including the Graustark novels by George Barr McCutcheon. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3582.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3582.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3582.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3582.mobi The Man Who Was Thursday: a Nightmare Gilbert Keith Chesterton http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3680 urn:isbn:0375757910 en 1908 Novels Crime/Mystery Fantasy Thriller Religion The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a novel by G. K. Chesterton, first published in 1908. The book has been referred to as a metaphysical thriller. Although it deals with anarchists, the novel is not an exploration or rebuttal of anarchist thought; Chesterton's ad hoc construction of "Philosophical Anarchism" is distinguished from ordinary anarchism and is referred to several times not so much as a rebellion against government but as a rebellion against God. The novel has been described as "one of the hidden hinges of twentieth-century writing, the place where, before our eyes, the nonsense-fantastical tradition of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear pivots and becomes the nightmare-fantastical tradition of Kafka and Borges." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3680.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3680.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3680.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3680.mobi Refuge Richard Herley http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3025 en 2008 Novels Science Fiction Thriller Like The Penal Colony, this is a thriller set in the near future. It is twelve years on from a global plague. John Suter believes himself the sole survivor. He has gradually come to terms with his fate and has settled into a steady and self-reliant daily routine. One morning he finds a mutilated body in the river near his house. In his terror, Suter knows he has no choice but to investigate. What he discovers upstream stretches his endurance to its limits and forces him to reassess not only his own humanity, but also his place within the human family he had once believed extinct. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3025.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3025.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3025.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3025.mobi Geek Mafia: Mile Zero Rick Dakan http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1942 urn:isbn:1604860022 en 2007 Novels Thriller Key West-southernmost point in the United States, Mile Zero on Highway 1; and as far as you can run away from your past troubles without swimming to Cuba. Key West-originally Cayo Huesos or Isle of Bones, for centuries a refuge for pirates, wreckers, writers, scoundrels, drunks, and tourists. Now home to a Crew of techno geek con artists who've turned it into their own private hunting ground. Paul and Chloe have the run of the sun-drenched island, free to play and scam far from the enemies they left behind in Silicon Valley. But that doesn't mean they can't bring a little high tech know how to the paradise. They and their new Crew have covered the island with their own private Big Brother style network-hidden cameras, RFID sensors, and a web of informers that tip them off about every crime committed and tourist trapped on the island. But will all the gadgets and games be enough when not one but three rival crews of con artists come to hold a top-secret gang summit? And when one of them is murdered, who will solve the crime? Inspired by author Rick Dakan's own eventful experiences in the video game and comic book industries, the Geek Mafia series satisfies the hunger in all of us to buck the system, take revenge on corporate America, and live a life of excitement and adventure. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1942.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1942.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1942.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1942.mobi Brain Twister Randall Garrett Laurence Mark Janifer http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1959 urn:isbn:1434401561 en 1961 Novels Science Fiction Thriller In nineteen-fourteen, it was enemy aliens. In nineteen-thirty, it was Wobblies. In nineteen-fifty-seven, it was fellow-travelers. And, in nineteen seventy-one, Kenneth J. Malone rolled wearily out of bed wondering what the hell it was going to be now. One thing, he told himself, was absolutely certain: it was going to be terrible. It always was. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1959.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1959.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1959.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1959.mobi The Woman in White Wilkie Collins http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3696 urn:isbn:0141439610 en 1860 Novels Crime/Mystery Thriller Gothic The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 1859–1860, and first published in book form in 1860. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of 'sensation novels'. As was customary at that time, The Woman in White was first published as a magazine serial. The first episode appeared on 29 November 1859, following Charles Dickens's own A Tale of Two Cities in Dickens's magazine All the Year Round in England, and Harper's Magazine in America. It caused an immediate sensation. Julian Symons (in his 1974 introduction to the Penguin edition) reports that "queues formed outside the offices to buy the next instalment. Bonnets, perfumes, waltzes and quadrilles were called by the book's title. Gladstone cancelled a theatre engagement to go on reading it. And Prince Albert sent a copy to Baron Stockmar." (from Wikipedia) http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3696.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3696.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3696.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3696.mobi Four Just Men Edgar Wallace http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1775 urn:isbn:1846774748 en 1905 Novels Thriller These are stories of the Four Just Men, Edgar Wallace's famous characters known to the wider public principally as a result of the early television series of the same name. The source material is, of course, far removed from its celluloid derivative. Far from being set in the world post WW2, the original stories take place in the colourful period immediately following the Great War. The principal characters remain a refreshing antidote to stereotypical heroes for they are group of ruthless and dedicated vigilantes, disillusioned with a world where the wicked and the abusers of power perpetually go unpunished. The Just Men set about to rectify matters according to their own standards and retribution is dispensed on swift and deadly wings. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1775.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1775.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1775.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1775.mobi Rupert of Hentzau Anthony Hope http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3583 urn:isbn:1605895512 en 1898 Novels Romance Adventure Thriller Rupert of Hentzau is a sequel by Anthony Hope to The Prisoner of Zenda, written in 1895, but not published until 1898. Queen Flavia, dutifully but unhappily married to her cousin Rudolf V, writes to her true love Rudolf Rassendyll. The letter is carried by von Tarlenheim to be delivered by hand, but it is stolen by the exiled Rupert of Hentzau, who sees in it a chance to return to favour by informing the pathologically jealous and paranoid King. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3583.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3583.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3583.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3583.mobi The Penal Colony Richard Herley http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2264 en 1987 Novels Science Fiction Thriller It is 1997. The British government now runs island prison colonies to take dangerous offenders from its overcrowded mainland jails. Among all these colonies, Sert, 25 miles off the north Cornish coast, has the worst reputation. There are no warders. Satellite technology is used to keep the convicts under watch. New arrivals are dumped by helicopter and must learn to survive as best they can. But not all the islanders are savages. Under the charismatic leadership of one man a community has evolved. A community with harsh and unyielding rules, peopled by resourceful men for whom the hopeless dream of escape may not be so hopeless after all ... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2264.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2264.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2264.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2264.mobi The Czar's Spy William Le Queux http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3783 urn:isbn:1598187732 en 1905 Novels Crime/Mystery Thriller We could tell you what this book was about, but then we'd have to kill you. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3783.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3783.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3783.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3783.mobi The Three Hostages John Buchan http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1184 urn:isbn:1406501301 en 1924 Novels Thriller This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1184.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1184.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1184.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1184.mobi Greenmantle John Buchan http://www.feedbooks.com/book/42 urn:isbn:0879238712 en 1916 Novels Thriller This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/42.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/42.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/42.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/42.mobi Fantômas Marcel Allain Pierre Souvestre http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3715 urn:isbn:1434450260 en 1911 Novels Crime/Mystery Thriller Fantômas was introduced a few years after Arsène Lupin, another well-known thief. But whereas Lupin draws the line at murder, Fantômas has no such qualms and is shown as a sociopath who enjoys killing in a sadistic fashion. He is totally ruthless, gives no mercy, and is loyal to none, not even his own children. He is a master of disguise, always appearing under an assumed identity, often that of a person whom he has murdered. Fantômas makes use of bizarre and improbable techniques in his crimes, such as plague-infested rats, giant snakes, and rooms that fill with sand. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3715.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3715.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3715.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3715.mobi Mr Standfast John Buchan http://www.feedbooks.com/book/43 urn:isbn:019283116X en 1919 Novels Thriller This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/43.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/43.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/43.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/43.mobi The After House Mary Roberts Rinehart http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3820 en 1914 Novels Crime/Mystery Romance Thriller When three people are murdered on a yacht everyone must watch their back as the murderer is still on board. But who is it? This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3820.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3820.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3820.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3820.mobi The Island of Sheep John Buchan http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1211 urn:isbn:0543903907 en 1932 Novels Thriller This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1211.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1211.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1211.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1211.mobi Seven Footprints to Satan Abraham Merritt http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1049 en 1927 Novels Crime/Mystery Thriller This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1049.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1049.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1049.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1049.mobi