Revenge - Fictional and Non
Explore the gripping theme of revenge with our curated book list, blending fictional thrillers and true crime. From Frederick Forsyth's Avenger to Ann Rule's Every Breath You Take, discover tales of justice, betrayal, and retribution.
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Every Breath You Take
by Ann Rule
America’s #1 true-crime writer fulfills a murder victim’s desperate plea with this shattering New York Times bestseller. “If anything ever happens to me…find Ann Rule and ask her to write my story.” In perhaps the first true-crime book written at the victim's request, Ann Rule untangles a web of lies and brutality that culminated in the murder of Sheila Blackthorne Bellush—a woman Rule never met, but whose shocking story she now chronicles with compassion, exacting detail, and unvarnished candor. Although happily ensconced in a loving second marriage, and a new family of quadruplets, Sheila never truly escaped the vicious enslavement of her ex-husband, multi-millionaire Allen Blackthorne, a handsome charmer— and a violent, controlling sociopath who subjected Sheila to unthinkable abuse in their marriage, and terrorized her for a decade after their divorce. When Sheila was slain in her home, in the presence of her four toddlers, authorities raced to link the crime to Blackthorne, the man who vowed to monitor Sheila's every move in his obsessive quest for power and revenge.
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Avenger
by Frederick Forsyth
Attorney Calvin Dexter hangs his shingle in a quiet New Jersey town, has a reasonably successful practice, and takes the hills strong while triathalon training. But Dexter is no ordinary man. *** The summer before he goes to college, Ricky Colenso travels to Bosnia to volunteer as an aid worker. A few weeks later, he disappears and is never heard from again. A family grieves and is offered little hope--in the fog of that horrible time and place, the killer, too, has vanished. *** Or so it would seem. For in a world that has forgotten right and wrong, there are few like Cal Dexter who can settle the score. And so, years later, a worldwide chase is on and Dexter begins to draw a net around the killer. But this time CIA agent Paul Devereux must find a way to stop Dexter before his quest for vengeance throws the world into chaos. *** A heart-stopping novel of murder and mystery, double-cross and triple-cross, old loyalties and new hatreds, Avenger has all of Frederick Forsyth's page-turning trademarks.
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Behind Closed Doors
by Shannon McKenna
Suspecting his millionaire boss Victor Lazar responsible for the murder of his half-brother, surveillance expert Seth Mackey gets sidetracked by Lazar's lovely girlfriend Raine Cameron, a woman with her own reasons to pursue Victor.
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No, Daddy, Don't!
by Irene Pence
Recounts the tragic story of husband John Battaglia and his violent behavior against second wife Mary Jean Pearle, which culminated in the death of their two children in the spring of 2001.
