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12 books with a reading profile close to The Fourth Estate by Jeffrey Archer. Practical, outward-looking, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.

  1. 1 The Associate

    The Associate

    by John Grisham

    Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment

    Kyle McAvoy is a high-achieving Yale Law student with a promising future until a mysterious group blackmails him using a grainy video from his undergraduate years.

  2. 2 Absolute Power

    Absolute Power

    by David Baldacci

    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.

  3. 3 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.

  4. 4 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.

  5. 5 Tripwire

    Tripwire

    by Lee Child

    Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment

    Jack Reacher earns his living through manual labor in Key West, digging swimming pools until a private investigator named Costello arrives looking for him.

  6. 6 The Winner

    The Winner

    by David Baldacci

    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.

  7. 7 THE DEVIL'S BIBLE

    THE DEVIL'S BIBLE

    by Steve Berry

    Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment

    In the twentieth installment of the Cotton Malone series, the retired Justice Department operative is drawn into a high-stakes hunt for the Codex Gigas, a massive medieval manuscript often called the Devil’s Bible.

  8. 8 Better Off Dead

    Better Off Dead

    by Lee Child, Andrew Child

    Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment

    Jack Reacher encounters an army veteran named Michaela Fenton in a remote border town near Arizona.

  9. 9 Look Again

    Look Again

    by Lisa Scottoline

    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.

  10. 10 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.

  11. 11 The King of Torts

    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.

  12. 12 Coma

    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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