Books like Better Off Dead
12 books with a reading profile close to Better Off Dead by Lee Child, Andrew Child. Practical, outward-looking, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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1
Bad Luck and Trouble
by Lee Child
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment
Jack Reacher is pulled out of his nomadic lifestyle when he receives a coded bank deposit from a former member of his old elite military police unit.
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2
The Firm
by John Grisham
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment
Mitchell McDeere, a high-ranking Harvard Law graduate, rejects elite Wall Street offers to join Bendini, Lambert & Locke, a small, wealthy tax firm in Memphis.
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3
False Memory
by Dean Koontz
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment
Martie Rhodes experiences a sudden, paralyzing fear of her own reflection, a condition known as autophobia.
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4
The Affair
by Lee Child
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment
Set in 1997, the story serves as a prequel featuring Jack Reacher as a Major in the Mississippi backwoods.
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5
Falling
by T.J. Newman
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment
Pilot Bill Hoffman boards Coastal Airways Flight 416 only to discover a terrorist has kidnapped his family.
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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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7
Look Again
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment
Ellen Gleeson, a single mother and journalist, receives a "Have You Seen This Child?" flyer in the mail featuring a face that matches her adopted son, Will.
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THE HARD LINE
by Mark Greaney
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment
In the fifteenth installment of the Gray Man series, operative Court Gentry confronts an escalating international conspiracy while attempting to intercept professional hit squads.
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9
HOPE RISES
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment
In the second installment of the Walter Nash series, the protagonist operates under a false identity to infiltrate and dismantle a vast international crime syndicate.
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10
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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Absolute Power
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment
Luther Whitney, a professional burglar, witnesses the President of the United States, Alan Richmond, and his Secret Service agents accidentally kill a woman during a drunken sexual encounter.
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