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Books like Sting

12 books with a reading profile close to Sting by Sandra Brown. Practical, outward-looking, growth-minded, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.

  1. 1 No Plan B

    No Plan B

    by Lee Child, Andrew Child

    Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment

    Jack Reacher witnesses a woman pushed under a moving bus in Gerrardsville, Colorado, but the local police rule the incident a suicide.

  2. 2 Personal

    Personal

    by Lee Child

    Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment

    In Lee Child’s nineteenth Jack Reacher novel, the protagonist is recruited by the State Department and the CIA to track down John Kott, a world-class sniper recently released from prison.

  3. 3 Velocity

    Velocity

    by Dean Koontz

    Also practical and growth-minded · thriller, entertainment

    Billy Wiles, a quiet bartender and aspiring writer, finds a cryptic note tucked under his windshield wiper presenting a lethal ultimatum.

  4. 4 The Butcher

    The Butcher

    by Jennifer Hillier

    Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment

    In 1985, the Beacon Hill Butcher claimed his final victims before being killed by Edward Shank, a respected socialite.

  5. 5 Zero Days

    Zero Days

    by Ruth Ware

    Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

    Jack and Gabe are a husband-and-wife team of professional pen-testers hired by companies to hack security systems and physically breach office buildings.

  6. 6 Last Man Standing

    Last Man Standing

    by David Baldacci

    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.

  7. 7 Whiteout

    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.

  8. 8 The Chemist

    The Chemist

    by Stephenie Meyer

    Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

    Alex is a former government interrogator living underground to escape the agency that once employed her.

  9. 9 Op-Center

    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.

  10. 10 Games of state

    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.

  11. 11 False Memory

    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.

  12. 12 The President Is Missing

    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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