10 Best Action Mystery Books Filled with Exhilaration
If there's something we action mystery lovers crave, it's that adrenaline rush, right? That heady mix of pulse-pounding action, murky mysteries, high stakes, and those plot twists. Oh boy, those plot twists that keep you wide-eyed till the crack of dawn. Suspense and uncertainty clashing with the raw intensity of combat, it's a helluva ride!
And friends, have I got some gems for you. I've gone through countless books, sloughed through the mediocre, flirted with the good, and found the downright excellent. I'm talking heart-racing, mind-bending narratives that hook you from the get-go. Stories where each page is a collision of thrilling, investigative capers and ball-to-the-wall action. It's about time you add these ten action-packed mystery novels to your reading list.
Don’t come looking for a meek walk in the park here. These picks aren't just whodunits; they’re 'how-in-the-hell-are-they-gonna-get-out-of-this' kind of books. Believe me, these novels will toss your expectations out the window and replace them with pure, uncut exhilaration! Ready to embark on a venture where every corner holds potential danger and every shadow hides a secret? Let's dive in then, to this world of electrifying action and stupefying enigmas! Buckle up, folks. It's about to get intense!
『The Da Vinci Code』
#1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER • While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body covered in baffling symbols. “Blockbuster perfection.... A gleefully erudite suspense novel.” —The New York Times “A pulse-quickening, brain-teasing adventure.” —People As Langdon and gifted French cryptologist Sophie Neveu sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to discover a trail of clues hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci—clues visible for all to see and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Even more startling, the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion—a secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci—and he guarded a breathtaking historical secret. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle—while avoiding the faceless adversary who shadows their every move—the explosive, ancient truth will be lost forever.
Author | Dan Brown |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Vintage |
Release Date | Mar 28, 2006 |
Source | Google Books |
『Deception Point』
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, and Inferno and the “master of smart thrills” (People) comes a “rocket-fast thriller” (Vince Flynn) about an astonishing NASA discovery that unravels a deadly conspiracy that leads all the way to the White House. When a NASA satellite spots evidence of an astoundingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory—one that could have profound implications for US space policy and the impending presidential election. With his re-election hanging in the balance, the President sends White House Intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton to the Milne Ice Shelf to verify the authenticity of the find. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic academic Michael Tolland, Rachel uncovers the unthinkable: evidence of scientific trickery. Before she can contact the President, she and Michael are attacked by a deadly team of assassins controlled by a mysterious power broker who will stop at nothing to hide the truth. Fleeing for their lives in an environment as desolate as it is lethal, their only hope for survival is to find out who is behind this masterful ploy. The truth, they will learn, is the most shocking deception of all in this “taut, fast-paced, barn-burner of a book” (St. Petersburg Times).
Author | Dan Brown |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Pocket Books |
Release Date | Jul 30, 2019 |
Source | Google Books |
『The Bourne Identity』
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER His memory is a blank. His bullet-ridden body was fished from the Mediterranean Sea. His face has been altered by plastic surgery. A frame of microfilm has been surgically implanted in his hip. Even his name is a mystery. Marked for death, he is racing for survival through a bizarre world of murderous conspirators—led by Carlos, the world’s most dangerous assassin. Who is Jason Bourne? The answer may kill him. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Supremacy.
Author | Robert Ludlum |
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Price | $9.99 |
Publisher | Bantam |
Release Date | Aug 14, 2012 |
Source | Google Books |
『The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo』
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The thrilling first book in the Millenium series featuring Lisbeth Salander: “Combine the chilly Swedish backdrop and moody psychodrama of a Bergman movie with the grisly pyrotechnics of a serial-killer thriller, then add an angry punk heroine and a down-on-his-luck investigative journalist, and you have the ingredients of Stieg Larsson’s first novel” (The New York Times). Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.
Author | Stieg Larsson |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
Release Date | Jun 23, 2009 |
Source | Google Books |
『Digital Fortress』
A former National Security Agency programmer threatens to release a mathematical formula that will allow organized crime and terrorism to skyrocket.
Author | Dan Brown |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Release Date | May 05, 2000 |
Source | Google Books |
『Catching Fire (Hunger Games, Book Two)』
The second book in Suzanne Collins's phenomenal and worldwide bestselling Hunger Games trilogy. Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge.
Author | Suzanne Collins |
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Price | $9.99 |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Release Date | Jun 01, 2010 |
Source | Google Books |
『Murder on the Orient Express』
THE MOST WIDELY READ MYSTERY OF ALL TIME—NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY KENNETH BRANAGH AND PRODUCED BY RIDLEY SCOTT! “The murderer is with us—on the train now . . .” Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Without a shred of doubt, one of his fellow passengers is the murderer. Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again. “What more . . . can a mystery addict desire?”—New York Times
Author | Agatha Christie |
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Price | $1.99 |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Release Date | Oct 28, 2003 |
Source | Google Books |
『A Time to Kill』
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The master of the legal thriller probes the savage depths of racial violence in this searing courtroom drama featuring the beloved Jake Brigance. “John Grisham may well be the best American storyteller writing today.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer The life of a ten-year-old black girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless white men. The mostly white town of Clanton in Ford County, Mississippi, reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime—until the girl’s father acquires an assault rifle and takes justice into his own hands. For ten days, as burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spread through the streets of Clanton, the nation sits spellbound as defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to save his client’s life—and then his own. Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!
Author | John Grisham |
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Price | $7.99 |
Publisher | Vintage |
Release Date | Mar 16, 2010 |
Source | Google Books |
『Better Off Dead』
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! Digging graves had not been part of my plans when I woke up that morning. Reacher goes where he wants, when he wants. That morning he was heading west, walking under the merciless desert sun—until he comes upon a curious scene. A Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around. A woman is slumped over the wheel. Dead? No, nothing is what it seems. The woman is Michaela Fenton, an army veteran turned FBI agent trying to find her twin brother, who might be mixed up with some dangerous people. Most of them would rather die than betray their terrifying leader, who has burrowed his influence deep into the nearby border town, a backwater that has seen better days. The mysterious Dendoncker rules from the shadows, out of sight and under the radar, keeping his dealings in the dark. He would know the fate of Fenton’s brother. Reacher is good at finding people who don’t want to be found, so he offers to help, despite feeling that Fenton is keeping secrets of her own. But a life hangs in the balance. Maybe more than one. But to bring Dendoncker down will be the riskiest job of Reacher's life. Failure is not an option, because in this kind of game, the loser is always better off dead.
Author | Lee Child/Andrew Child |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Bantam |
Release Date | Apr 26, 2022 |
Source | Google Books |
『The Day of the Jackal』
SOON TO BE A PEACOCK ORIGINAL SERIES STARRING EDDIE REDMAYNE—THE CLASSIC THRILLER FROM #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR FREDERICK FORSYTH “The Day of the Jackal makes such comparable books such as The Manchurian Candidate and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold seem like Hardy Boy mysteries.”—The New York Times The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of his profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the world. An assassin with a contract to kill the world's most heavily guarded man. One man with a rifle who can change the course of history. One man whose mission is so secretive not even his employers know his name. And as the minutes count down to the final act of execution, it seems that there is no power on earth that can stop the Jackal.
Author | Frederick Forsyth |
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Price | $8.99 |
Publisher | Penguin |
Release Date | Sep 04, 2012 |
Source | Google Books |
In conclusion, if you’re into the genre of action-packed mysteries, then you, my friend, are in for a hell of a ride with these bangers. The plot twists? Wild. The adrenaline rush you get when the protagonist is a hair's breadth away from danger yet manages to turn the tables? Unmatchable. These books meld suspense, action, and mystery to put you at the edge of your seat, biting your nails nervously as each story unfolds. Hear me out now. These are not the kind of books that you read casually while sipping your morning coffee. No siree! These are the kind of books that grab hold of your attention and demand to be devoured in one sitting, throwing you into a whirlwind of emotions and leaving you gasping for more. Don't believe me? Dive in. Check them out. Soon, you'll find yourself mesmerized, captivated, and totally hooked. So, ready to embark on an adventure like no other? Start reading and let the thrilling journey begin!
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