Action & Adventure

Physical risk and people doing extraordinary dees are the hallmarks of action and adventure fiction. These books will follow mercenaries, commandos or terrorists to jungles, deserts or other forbidding locales.

Classics
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Haggard, H. Rider
London, Jack
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Verne, Jules

Terrorism, Espionage & Conspiracy
Benson, Raymond
Clancy, Tom
Coonts, Stephen
DeMille, Nelson
Deutermann, Peter T.
Du Brul, Jack B.
Egleton, Clive
Eisler, Barry
Fleming, Ian
Forsyth, Frederick
Freemantle, Brian
Gardner, John
Hall, Adam
Herman, Richard
Higgins, Jack
Huston, James W.
Le Carre, John
Ludlum, Robert
Lustbader, Eric
McNab, Andy
Mills, Kyle
Morrell, David
Nance, John J.
Shelby, Philip
Silva, Daniel
Thomas, Craig

Age of Sail and Horse
Cornwell, Bernard
Forester, C.S.
Fraser, George MacDonald
Kent, Alexander
Lambdin, Dewey
Nelson, James L.
O'Brian, Patrick

Exotic Places, Expeditions, Voyages & Travel
Benchley, Peter
Bull, Bartle
Dunnett, Dorothy
Johnstone, William W.
Rollins, James
Reilly, Matthew
Smith, Wilbur A.

Special Ops, Secret Missions & Soldiers of Fortune
Bond, Larry
Brown, Dale
Coyle, Harold
Cussler, Clive
Griffin, W.E.B.
Hagberg, David
Herman, Richard
Huston, James W.
Land, Jon
Marcinko, Richard
Mayer, Bob
Robinson, Patrick

World War
MacLean, Alistair
Kerr, Philip

Urban Action, Police & Mysteries
Carcaterra, Lorenzo
Cannell, Stephen J.
Eidson, Bill
Leonard, Elmore

Compiled by Sara Kempen
July 2007