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 The Best Action Thriller Books Of All Time

An unfortunate fact about life is that we want stability and certainty in it, but we get bored when we settle down having a great job and an excellent financial position.

The only way to get the adrenaline rush back in is to read action thriller books. Thriller novels take us into the shoes of a person witnessing action daily. We may not want too much activity in our lives, but we love it when we overcome dangers and challenges while looking at the problems from the character's perspective.

If you are thinking about reading an action thriller novel now, you are in luck. We have a list of the best action-thriller books of all time, every one of these is bound to give you the boost of energy you need:

1. The Covey Jencks Mysteries: Love and Murder Deep in the Heart of Texas- Shelton L. Williams

Shelton L. Williams is an emerging author in the genre of action and thriller novels. Williams is a noted educator and diplomat who grew up in football-crazy Texas. Over the past few years, his writing has turned to murder mysteries and action-thrillers derived from events almost torn from our daily headlines. Race, domestic terrorism, and even foreign intrigue dominate his stories, but so does humour. Williams's stories show that people are people, and they are mixed in attitudes, assumptions, and experiences. It's the human condition. It is time we grow out of our differences and start celebrating them as gifts and not curses.

Shelton’s most recent fiction publication is The Covey Jencks Mysteries: Love and Murder Deep in the Heart of Texas. Covey Jencks and JayJay Qualls are his two leading characters who are also a couple. Together, they solve murder mysteries as amateur detectives in Texas.

     2.    Epoca: The River of Sand – Ivy Claire

Ivy Claire is a renowned American novelist and a former professional squash player. She lives in New York with her husband, a screenwriter and filmmaker.

Staged in a fantasy world, Pretia, the Princess of Epoca, is returning to Ecrof, the elite magical sports academy. On one hand, she is responsible for ruling Epoca, and on the other, her desire to compete in the Junior Epic Games with one of the best athletes in Epoca.

Pretia, with her best friend Rovi and their friend Vera, must find a way to secure a better future for Epoca while winning the Junior Epic Games. There is much unrest around the event, and things are not quite going in the right direction. It’s the perfect plot for an action thriller book.

3.      The Marketmaker – Michael Ridpath

Michael Ridpath worked as a bond trader in London before becoming an author famous for his niche of high-finance thrillers. His claim to fame is his series of action novels starring Magnus Johnson, an Icelandic detective.

The Marketmaker is one of the best financial thriller books to read. It crosses the border to introduce Ricardo Ross to the world. Ricardo is the king of Latin American bond markets and is also known as the Marketmaker.

Nick Elliot, an academic, who befriends Ricardo, joins him at City brokers. Another interesting character Isabel, a Brazilian colleague of Nick’s, happens to disappear among other weird incidents. Nick decides to find her in Brazil, but he does not know the country. The only way he can see her is to seek help from Ricardo. The problem is Nick has been trying to leave Ricardo because of the risks of being associated with him. But now he has bigger things to worry about.

4.      The Lost Apothecary - Sarah Penner

Sarah Penner became famous with her debut novel – The Lost Apothecary. She was inspired by Elizabeth Gilbert and pursued learning creative writing. The result came out so well that her book became an instant New York Times bestseller for seven weeks. She works in finance and is a member of the Historical Novel Society and the Women's Fiction Writers Association.

Ranging over two centuries, the story of an apothecary lives on. Sarah Penner has penned one of the most intriguing mysteries of the year.

Nella is an apothecary using her skills to help women liberate themselves from their cruel husbands with just a few drops of poison. Nella keeps a record of all the women she has freed, but when she meets Eliza – a 12-year-old girl – things change in her life.

The story of Nella and Eliza is only revealed two hundred years later when Caroline discovers a leftover poison vial from Nella's collections. As a historian, she sets out to investigate the matter only to find clues to the mystery of the apothecary murders. As she goes deeper, she realises that her own life might be at stake in the discovery of the dark past.

5.      Pandemic: A Novel – Scott Sigler

Scott Sigler is an American author and podcaster who lives in Michigan. He has been on the New York Times bestseller list several times, with his novels published in the genre of horror and action. Scott Sigler is the author of the famous action thriller novels Infected and Contagious. This novel is also based on a cataclysmic scenario but probably more relevant to the actual events happening in the world.

The story resumes at the point where Dr Margaret Montoya, the hero scientist who saved the world from contagion, is now called in again to handle a bigger problem. Somewhere deep under Lake Michigan, a can-sized container holds microorganisms that can infect humans to make them zombies and turn them into cannibals.

The container won't hold out for long, and decisions must be made quickly to find and destroy the container before it wreaks havoc in the whole world and infects everyone on Earth. Montoya and the company must give their best to combat the microorganisms and help keep the general public aware. But many people are still suspicious that this is either a cover-up for something darker in origin or an outright fabrication. As the story progresses, things grow direr, and the world is plunged into apocalyptic chaos.

The list is obviously not exhaustive as there are hundreds of action thriller novels that will give you goosebumps on every page. The best way to find your match is to look for the specific genre of action thriller book you can relate to and start reading one. When you know about a specific field, you are likely to enjoy any fictional story written about the area. So buckle up, Dorothy!