Books by Christopher Reich and Complete Book Reviews

Christopher Reich, Author . Delacorte $26.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-385-33367-2
Reich continues to struggle, trying to recapture his early success. After a rather intriguing setup, this third novel gradually evolves into something more like an unintentional parody than a real thriller. Following the altogether lackluster Allan...
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Christopher Reich, Author . Delacorte $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-385-33727-4
Reich (The Numbered Account; The Runner; The First Billion) returns to the stratospheric heights of international finance in this complicated novel of terrorist intrigue. Mild-mannered forensic accountant Adam Chapel revels in his first field...
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Christopher Reich, Author . Delacorte $26 (431p) ISBN 978-0-385-33728-1
Thomas Bolden, successful 32-year-old investment banker and Harlem Boys Club Foundation trustee, has come a long way from his turbulent childhood on the mean streets of Chicago. But his street smarts surface at the start of Reich's action-packed
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Christopher Reich, Author . Doubleday $24.95 (390p) ISBN 978-0-385-52406-3
The un-put-downable sixth spy novel from bestseller Reich (The Patriots’ Club , which won an International Thrillers Award in 2006) shows he’s the equal of such masters of suspense as Ken Follett and Frederick Forsyth. The twisting story
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Christopher Reich, Author . Doubleday $26 (419p) ISBN 978-0-385-52407-0
Near the start of bestseller Reich's stellar sequel to Rules of Deception , Dr. Jonathan Ransom flies from Africa to London for a medical conference. That same day, intermediaries arrange for him to meet his fugitive wife, Emma, once a secret...
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Christopher Reich, Author Delacorte Press $24.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-385-32017-7
The Swiss banking industry has been taking some hard hits in the headlines recently, and it doesn't fare any better in this excellent debut thriller of finance and international intrigue. When Nicholas Neumann gives up his fiancee and a fast-track...
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Christopher Reich, Doubleday, $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-53154-2
Reich's outstanding third thriller featuring Dr. Jonathan Ransom (after Rules of Vengeance) finds the courageous surgeon, who no longer works for Doctors Without Borders, in the hinterlands of Afghanistan, where he gets caught in a Taliban raid that
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Christopher Reich, Author Delacorte Press $26.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-385-33366-5
Reich's first novel, Numbered Account, did remarkably well for a debut. Unfortunately, Reich has hit upon a stale notion for his follow-up, and although the book moves along smartly, it feels mechanical in both plot and characters. Set in Germany...
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Christopher Reich. Doubleday, $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-385-53506-9
The newest financial thriller from the best-selling author Reich (Rules of Betrayal) brings espionage to the New York Stock Exchange. Bewildered by a text message that was sent to him by his estranged father right before his sudden death, Bobby,...
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Christopher Reich. Doubleday, $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-385-53157-3
Within hours of Austin-based FBI special agent Joe Grant’s murder, his widow, Mary, and two daughters find themselves fighting for their own lives in this absorbing, though intensely creepy, cyber thriller from Thriller Award–winner Reich (The...
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Christopher Reich, Author, Paul Michael, Read by , read by Paul Michael. Random House Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-5800-9
In true Hitchcockian tradition, Reich plunges his unsuspecting protagonist, Dr. Jonathan Ransom, into a dangerous world of international intrigue and death. After his wife dies in a skiing accident in the Swiss Alps, Ransom learns she had been...
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Christopher Reich, Author, Stephen Lang, Read by Random House Audio Publishing Group $26.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-52690-5
Shortly after the end of the second world war, Erich Seyss, a member of Hitler's SS who's also a Nazi Olympic runner, escapes an Allied POW camp to embark on one last strike for Germany. The protagonist, Devlin Judge, is an American lawyer who's in...
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Christopher Reich. Mulholland, $28 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-34235-3
Freelance spy Simon Riske, the hero of this tense if predictable series launch from Thriller Award–winner Reich (Invasion of Privacy), operates a high-end auto repair shop in central London when he’s not doing spook work. An American expat who grew...
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Christopher Reich. Mullholland, $28 (384p) ISBN 978-0-316-34239-1
Early in Thriller Award winner Reich’s entertaining sequel to 2018’s The Take, Lord Toby Stonewall, Duke of Suffolk and shareholder in the Casino de Monte-Carlo in Monaco, approaches professional problem solver Simon Riske in London. Over the past...
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Christopher Reich. Mulholland, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-0-316-45601-2
Thriller Award winner Reich’s entertaining third Simon Riske novel (after 2019’s Crown Jewel) finds professional problem solver Riske’s old friend Rafael “Rafa” de Bourbon, a Spanish entrepreneur who’s about to open a luxury hotel on the coast of...
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Christopher Reich. Mulholland, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-0-316-45609-8
In Edgar finalist Reich’s heart-pounding fourth outing for freelance London spy Simon Riske (after 2020’s The Palace), Riske’s talent for restoring vintage Ferraris puts him in harm’s way. The 1963 Ferrari that his client just sold for $102 million...
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Christopher Reich. Thomas & Mercer, $28.99 (346p) ISBN 978-1-662516-54-2
A retired CIA operative returns to the fray in this unremarkable spy thriller from bestseller Reich (Once a Thief). Eight years ago, Mac Dekker was framed for treason by his supposed ally, Ilya Ivashka, before appearing to die in an explosion....
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