Action/Horror Fiction Books
Explore the best action/horror fiction books with thrilling plots and chilling suspense. Discover top picks for adrenaline-packed reads that blend horror and action seamlessly.
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Subterranean
by James Rollins
Beneath the ice at the bottom of the earth is a magnificent subterranean labyrinth.
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Temple
by Matthew Reilly
Deep in the jungles of Peru the race of the century is underway to locate a legendary Incan idol. An artifact carved out of a strange kind of stone.
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Ice Hunt
by James Rollins
Carved into a moving island of ice twice the size of the United States, Ice Station Grendel has been abandoned for more than seventy years. The twisted brainchild of the finest minds of the former Soviet Union, it was designed to be inaccessible and virtually invisible. But an American undersea research vessel has inadvertently pulled too close—and something has been sighted moving inside the allegedly deserted facility, something whose survival defies every natural law. And now, as scientists, soldiers, intelligence operatives, and unsuspecting civilians are drawn into Grendel's lethal vortex, the most extreme measures possible will be undertaken to protect its dark mysteries—because the terrible truths locked behind submerged walls of ice and steel could end human life on Earth.
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Contest
by Matthew Reilly
From the bestselling author of "Area 7" comes an action-packed novel about a doctor and his daughter trapped in New York's Public Library by a contest with a fatal outcome.
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Amazonia
by James Rollins
The Rand scientific expedition entered the lush wilderness of the Amazon and never returned. Years later, one of its members has stumbled out of the world's most inhospitable rainforest—a former Special Forces soldier, scarred, mutilated, terrified, and mere hours from death, who went in with one arm missing . . . and came out with both intact. Unable to comprehend this inexplicable event, the government sends Nathan Rand into this impenetrable secret world of undreamed-of perils, to follow the trail of his vanished father . . . toward mysteries that must be solved at any cost. But the nightmare that is awaiting Nate and his team of scientists and seasoned U.S. Rangers dwarfs any danger they anticipated . . . an ancient, unspoken terror—a power beyond human imagining—that can forever alter the world beyond the dark, lethal confines of . . .
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Ice Station
by Matthew Reilly
On Antarctica, special forces from several countries battle each other for control of what is believed to be an alien space ship buried in the ice. Non-stop action and treachery galore. A first novel.
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Seven Deadly Wonders
by Matthew Reilly
A prediction that promises ultimate power to whomever restores the Golden Capstone, an ancient Egyptian structure that protected people from global flooding before it was broken and scattered by Alexander the Great, prompts a brutal competition among top nations, terrorists, and a coalition. By the author of Contest and Ice Station. 125,000 first printing.
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Area 7
by Matthew Reilly
The President of the United States travels to the remote Utah desert to inspect the secret base known as Area 7, but he gets more than he bargained for when he learns hostile forces have taken over the base.
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Scarecrow
by Matthew Reilly
When a $20,000,000 bounty is placed on his head, Scarecrow Schofield begins an international race for survival during which he unravels a vast conspiracy that reveals why he has been targeted.
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City of the Dead
by Brian Keene
Demon-possessed zombies besiege a small group of survivors in a Manhattan skyscraper.
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Deep Current
by Benjamin E. Miller
As a destructive Antarctic floating glacier, called a "floe," heads--or "aims"--for Hawaii, a scientific team is on a do-or-die mission to land on the floe and disable it. But what they discover becomes more of a threat than the floe itself. Original.
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The Lost World
by Michael Crichton
"HARROWING THRILLS . . . FAST-PACED AND ENGAGING." --People It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end--the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public. There are rumors that something has survived. . . . "ACTION-PACKED." --New York Daily News "FAST AND GRIPPING." --The Washington Post Book World "A VERY SCARY READ." --Entertainment Weekly "AN EDGE-OF-THE-SEAT TALE." --St. Petersburg Times
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Congo
by Michael Crichton
Three adventurers trek into the Congo in search of the diamonds of the Lost City of Zinj.
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The Invoker
by Jon F. Merz
Lawson the vampire keeps other vampires from tipping humanity off to their existence. Lawson had to sanction Watterson for dealing drugs and bringing unwanted attention to the vampires, but he discovers that it was a set-up to get at Watterson's son, Jack, an Invoker. Council member Arvella needs Jack's power to open a link to the spirit world. If Lawson doesn't stop her, all hell really will break loose.
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The Destructor
by Jon F. Merz
In the third title of this blood-chilling series, Lawson, a Fixer who makes sure his fellow bloodsuckers remain out of sight and mind, must face his deadliest and most elusive foe. Shiva--half vampire, half werewolf--is a deadly assassin taking out Fixers--and now she's stalking Lawson's turf. Original.
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The Syndicate
by Jon F. Merz
In this fourth book in Merz's blood-chilling series, vampire cop Lawson heads to New York City to search for his missing cousin and faces off against a group of lethal vampire gangsters. Original.
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Hunter
by James Byron Huggins
Nathaniel Hunter goes to the Arctic Circle to track a raging creature that has decimated a secret research facility, annihilated an entire squad of elite military guards, and started to head south toward civilization. Nathaniel soon discovers that his prey is not only terror-incarnate, but quite possibly immortal.
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Cain
by James Byron Huggins
The late Roth Tiberius Cain, legendary CIA hitman is gone, but not forgotten. A top-secret project code-named Genocide One has resurrected Cain from the dead--and it could mean the end of the human race.
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Jinn
by Matthew B.J. Delaney
Investigating a string of unusual murders in Boston, two police detectives find themselves tracing leads back to a group of World War II marines and a South Seas island that harbors an ancient secret.
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Bite
by Richard Laymon
It's almost midnight. Cat's on the bed, facedown and naked. She's Sam's former girlfriend, the only woman he's ever loved. Sam's in the closet, with a hammer in one hand and a wooden stake in the other. Together they wait as the clock ticks down because ... the vampire is coming. When Cat first appeared at Sam's door he couldn't believe his eyes. He hadn't seen her intern years, but he'd never forgotten her. Not for a second. But before this night is through, Sam will enter a nightmare of blood and fear that he'll never be able to forget -- no matter how hard he tries.
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The Codex
by Douglas Preston
Greetings from the dead, declares Maxwell on the videotape he left behind after his mysterious disappearance.