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About The Day of the Jackal · Frederick Forsyth
Jim Butcher, 2000
Also power and serenity. A broke Chicago wizard takes a missing-person case and a police consultation, then finds both pointing at magic used for murder.
Paranoid? Probably. But just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean that there isn’t an invisible demon about to eat your face. John Grisham, 1992
Also serenity and power. A law student's hunch about two murdered Supreme Court justices makes her the target of a hunt she never asked for.
Runyan picked his fingernails with the paper clip and smiled slightly to himself. Rosenberg’s death, by any means or method, would be a relief. No, it would be a glorious occasion. The Chief would have to wear black and give a eulogy, but behind locked doors he would chuckle with his law clerks. Runyan liked this thought. Robert Ludlum, 1980
Also power. Shot off a trawler into a Mediterranean storm, a man surfaces with no memory — and a set of skills and enemies he cannot explain.
And there was heat, a strange moist heat at his temple that seared through the freezing water that kept swallowing him, a fire where no fire should burn. There was ice, too; an icelike throbbing in his stomach and his legs and his chest, oddly warmed by the cold sea around him. He felt these things, acknowledging his own panic as he felt them. He could see his own body turning and twisting, arms and feet working frantically against the pressures of the whirlpool. He could feel, think, see, perceive panic and struggle—yet strangely there was peace. It was the calm of the observer, the uninvolved observer, separated from the events, knowing of them but not essentially involved. Dan Brown, 2013
Also serenity and power. A Harvard symbologist wakes in a Florence hospital with two days missing, a killer outside, and a trail hidden in Dante's hell.
Langdon took a step toward the river, but he could see the waters were bloodred and too deep to traverse. When Langdon raised his eyes again to the veiled woman, the bodies at her feet had multiplied. There were hundreds of them now, maybe thousands, some still alive, writhing in agony, dying unthinkable deaths . . . consumed by fire, buried in feces, devouring one another. He could hear the mournful cries of human suffering echoing across the water. Sarah J. Maas, 2020
Also power and serenity. A party girl and a fallen angel hunt a demon through a glittering city, where a murder opens a case built on old magic and worse loyalties.
But she was the one person I could be myself around and never feel judged. The one person that I knew would always pick up the phone, or call me back. She was the one person who made me feel brave because no matter what happened, no matter how bad or embarrassing or shitty it was, I knew that I had her in my corner. That if it all went to Hel, I could talk to her and it would be fine. Fletcher Knebel, 1962
Also power. A Cold War thriller about a popular general's plot against the White House, and the handful of insiders trying to stop him in seven days.
All you’ve got to know is this: right now the government of the United States is sitting on top of the Washington Monument, right on the very point, tilting right and left and ready to fall off and break up on the pavement. There are just a handful of men that can prevent it. And you’re one of them. Suzanne Collins, 2008
Also serenity and power. A sixteen-year-old volunteers for a televised fight to the death, and learns that survival is a performance, a rebellion, and a love story all at once.
George R. R. Martin, 2005
Also power. After a war of kings, the survivors divide the wreckage—and queens, outlaws and broken men get their turn.
E.L. James, 2012
Also power. A newly married couple with unlimited money and no privacy: the third book is about what happens when the contract runs out and the real marriage starts.
Lauren Roberts, 2024
Also power and serenity. A hunted girl hides in a chimney while the boy she once knew searches the room below. Romantasy tension, sharp dialogue, and a world split by power.
Tom Clancy, 1991
Also power. A look inside the high-stakes world of post-Soviet intelligence, where political legacy crashes headlong into brutal, modern violence.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2015
Also power and serenity. A father writes to his teenage son about growing up black in America, and about the body, history, and the Dream.
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