Books like Absolute Power
12 books with a reading profile close to Absolute Power by David Baldacci. Practical, outward-looking, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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Op-Center
by Jeff Rovin, Tom Clancy
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment
The story follows Paul Hood, the newly appointed director of the National Crisis Management Center, a high-tech intelligence agency designed to bypass traditional bureaucracy.
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Games of state
by Jeff Rovin, Tom Clancy
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment
In this third installment of the Op-Center series, Director Paul Hood and his crisis management team confront a resurgence of neo-Nazi extremism in unified Germany.
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The Appeal
by John Grisham
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment
In "The Appeal," a chemical company called Krane Chemical faces a massive legal judgment after a Mississippi jury finds them responsible for dumping toxic waste that caused a localized cancer cluster.
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The Winner
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment
LuAnn Tyler is a destitute single mother living in a Georgia trailer park when a mysterious man named Jackson offers her an impossible bargain.
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Last Man Standing
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment
Web London is an elite operative within the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team whose life shatters during a high-stakes raid on a drug laboratory.
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The King of Torts
by John Grisham
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment
Clay Carter works as a low-paid public defender in Washington, D.C., until a routine murder case reveals a pharmaceutical scandal.
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Coma
by Robin Cook
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment
Medical student Susan Wheeler discovers a cluster of unexplained surgical complications at Boston Memorial Hospital.
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The President Is Missing
by Bill Clinton
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment
President Jonathan Lincoln Duncan faces a looming cyberattack known as Dark Ages, which threatens to wipe out the United States' entire digital infrastructure.
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The Road to Gandolfo
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment
General MacKenzie Hawkins, a rebellious military veteran with a history of career-ending antics, orchestrates a plot to kidnap Pope Francesco I.
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Sting
by Sandra Brown
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment
Shawna Rae Diamond wakes up in a secluded cabin after being kidnapped from a bar by Mickey Bolden.
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Whiteout
by Ken Follett
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment
The plot centers on Toni Gallo, the head of security for a pharmaceutical lab in Scotland, who discovers a vial of the lethal Madoba-2 virus has been stolen.
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