Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Five thriller novels that grab you from page one

Ryan Pote is a twelve-year veteran Navy helicopter pilot who was part of a joint interagency special operations task force, deployed throughout Central and South America conducting counter narcotics. Before the Navy, he was a scuba diving instructor in Hawaii and a lab tech conducting algae-biofuels research. He holds a Masters degree in History from Ashland University. He lives with his wife and children in New England.

Pote's new novel is Blood and Treasure.

At CrimeReads the author tagged five thriller novels that grab you from page one. One title on the list:
Killing Floor by Lee Child

Jack Reacher, a drifter with no baggage, steps off a bus in a sleepy Georgia town and gets arrested for a murder he didn’t commit, sparking a brutal fight for survival.

Lee Child’s Killing Floor is like a punch you didn’t see coming. Reacher’s a towering, no-nonsense ex-military cop who walks into trouble like it’s his day job, and from the first page, you’re strapped in for a gritty, twisty ride. This is the kind of book that makes you miss your beach umbrella’s shade because you’re too busy flipping pages.
Read about the other entries on the list.

Killing Floor is among the Telegraph's twenty-three greatest thrillers ever written.

--Marshal Zeringue