Books like The Rainmaker
12 books with a reading profile close to The Rainmaker by John Grisham. Practical, outward-looking, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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1
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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2
Running blind
by Lee Child
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment
In Jack Reacher’s fourth outing, the FBI blackmails the former military policeman into profiling a serial killer targeting female ex-soldiers.
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3
The Eleventh Commandment
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment
Connor Fitzgerald is a professional assassin for the CIA and a devoted family man who has kept his violent occupation a secret for twenty-eight years.
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4
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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5
The Runaway Jury
by John Grisham
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment
In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark trial pits a widow against Pynex, a massive tobacco corporation.
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6
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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7
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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8
Airframe
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment
Casey Singleton, a quality assurance vice president at Norton Aircraft, leads an investigation after a Flight 545 wide-body jet undergoes a violent mid-air pitch oscillation that leaves three passengers dead and dozens…
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9
I Am Pilgrim
by Terry Hayes
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment
The story follows a retired intelligence agent, known by the codename Pilgrim, who is pulled back into the field to stop a global biological threat.
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10
The Club
by Ellery Lloyd
Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment
The Club follows the elite staff and celebrity members of Home Group during the violent launch of Island Home, a private resort off the English coast.
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11
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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12
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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