Books by John Gilstrap and Complete Book Reviews
John Gilstrap, Author . Atria $25 (368p) ISBN 978-0-671-78686-1
Suspense veteran Gilstrap (Even Steven) falls back on one of his familiar themes—young person in peril—for this rousing, if hokey, adventure set in Utah's Wasatch Mountains. Scott O'Toole, the teenage son of celebrity shrink...
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John Gilstrap, Author . Pinnacle $6.99 (446p) ISBN 978-0-7860-2087-4
Bestseller Gilstrap (Nathan’s Run
) launches a thriller series following PI Jonathan Grave. Much like Bruce Wayne, Grave is single and rich, uses expensive gadgets and has a vigilante alter ego. Hokey dialogue (“I respect anyone willing...
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John Gilstrap, Pinnacle, $6.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-7860-2088-1
The addictively readable second thriller featuring freelance hostage rescue operative Jonathan "Digger" Grave (after 2009's No Mercy) marries a breakneck pace to a complex, multilayered plot. When two teenage boys are inexplicably kidnapped from a...
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John Gilstrap, Author Atria Books $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-671-78666-3
Corny internal monologues drag down this action-packed third novel by Gilstrap (Nathan's Run; At All Costs), featuring an ill-starred childless couple and a hapless young mom caught between the cops and the bad guys. Still grieving over the recent...
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John Gilstrap. Pinnacle, $9.99 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-7860-2493-3
At the start of Thriller Award–finalist Gilstrap’s rousing fourth novel featuring hostage rescue specialist Jonathan Grave (after 2011’s Threat Warning), Grave and his partner, Boxers, set out to save four adults and six teens ages 15 to 17, part of
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John Gilstrap. Kensington, $26 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4967-1269-1
Thriller Award–winner Gilstrap’s exciting eighth outing for hostage rescue specialist Jonathan Grave (after 2015’s Against All Enemies) takes Grave and his partner, Brian Van De Muelebroecke (aka Boxers), on a mission to the Mexican jungle, where...
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John Gilstrap. Kensington, $26 (512p) ISBN 978-1-4967-1815-0
Set on a private island off Mexico’s Pacific coast, Thriller Award–winner Gilstrap’s 10th Jonathan Grave novel (after 2017’s Final Target) is a sizzling beach read for military action fans. What is supposed to be a lazy tropical holiday at the...
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John Gilstrap. Pinnacle, $9.99 mass market (480p) ISBN 978-0-7860-3982-1
Hundreds die when snipers shoot up six high school football games in bestseller Gilstrap’s propulsive 12th Jonathan Grave thriller (after 2018’s Scorpion Strike). The FBI enlists Grave, the billionaire leader of private investigating firm Security...
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John Gilstrap. Kensington, $26 (512p) ISBN 978-1-4967-2855-5
The U.S. approves an Israeli first-strike to destroy Iranian nuclear weapons, in this pallid near-future series launch from bestseller Gilstrap (the Jonathan Grave series). Given the threat of nuclear war, all members of Congress are transported to...
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John Gilstrap. Kensington, $26 (512p) ISBN 978-1-4967-2857-9
Gilstrap’s engrossing sequel to 2021’s Crimson Phoenix finds former U.S. Congresswoman Victoria Emerson continuing to organize an Ortho, W.Va., community of like-minded survivors of Hell Day, an “eight-hour conflict that left the world in ruins” 34...
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