Reader guides

Find your next thriller

Loved a spy novel, a political thriller or a series on screen? Each guide compares it with Terminal Rage by A.M. Khalifa and suggests more books to read next.

The big political and spy thrillers of 2026

Books like The French Illusion

John Grisham’s honeymoon kidnapping that becomes a CIA operation.

Books like London Station

David McCloskey’s CIA and British intelligence, spying on each other.

Books like Double Tap

A young Mitch Rapp goes deep cover after a kidnapping in Verona.

Books like Ransom

Daniel Silva’s Gabriel Allon and a socialite who vanished.

Books like Choke Point

Brad Thor’s Scot Harvath hunts an American turncoat.

Books like The Last Mandarin

Louise Penny and Mellissa Fung’s China crisis at the White House.

Books like The Hard Line

Mark Greaney’s Gray Man becomes the hunted.

Books like Icarus 17

Charles Cumming’s Lachlan Kite and a hunt across Athens.

Books like The Cormorant Hunt

Michael Idov’s exiled CIA officer, pulled back in.

Books like The Patriot’s Daughter

Brittany Butler’s CIA officer inside Russia’s SVR.

Modern classics

Books like I Am Pilgrim

Terry Hayes’s global manhunt and the thrillers that match it.

Books like The Day of the Jackal

Frederick Forsyth’s duel between two professionals.

Authors and series

Authors like Daniel Silva

Middle East intrigue and European cities.

Authors like Vince Flynn

Terrorism, Washington and a hero who won’t let go.

Books like Jack Reacher

A capable man with a past who won’t walk away.

Books like Slow Horses

For readers of Mick Herron’s Slough House.

From the screen

Books like Homeland

Terrorism, paranoia and the question of who to trust.

Books like Syriana

Oil, intelligence and power, from a writer who worked on the film.

Egyptian writers

Egyptian writers: a reader’s guide

From Naguib Mahfouz to the Egyptians writing in English today.

Naguib Mahfouz: where to start

The Nobel laureate and the great chronicler of Cairo.

Alaa Al Aswany: where to start

The Yacoubian Building and modern Cairo.

Ahdaf Soueif: where to start

The Map of Love, written in English.

More about A.M. Khalifa

The Egyptian spy novelist writing in English

Who A.M. Khalifa is, and why he writes the Middle East differently.

A thriller narrated by Scott Brick

For listeners who follow the voice of the Reacher audiobooks.

In Italian and Danish

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