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
Libri come Daniel Silva
In italiano.
Un thriller tra Roma e Napoli
In italiano.
Bøger som Afdeling Q
På dansk.
En spændende thriller som lydbog
På dansk.