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Martynuska, Małgorzata. "Karin Slaughter’s Crime Novel "Blindsighted" as a Southern Forensic Thriller." Tematy i Konteksty 18, no. 13 (2023): 412–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.15584/tik.2023.26.

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The forensic thriller has emerged as a significant subgenre of crime fiction that depicts the work of medical examiners, coroners, forensic pathologists, and anthropologists who analyze scientific evidence. Forensic investigators do not engage directly in pursuing the criminal; instead, they interpret the physical evidence collected from the victim's body and the crime scene. The popularity of forensic fiction, film, and TV series has created the general assumption that criminalistics has become a routine police procedure. This article presents Karin Slaughter's novel Blindsighted as an example of the Southern forensic thriller. The American writer Karin Slaughter is the author of crime stories and thrillers set in the American South. Her Grant County series consists of six crime novels, beginning with Blindsighted and followed by Kisscut, A Faint Cold Fear, Indelible, Faithless, and Beyond Reach. The essay introduces the main qualities of a forensic thriller and highlights the novel's generic characteristics. Then, Blindsighted is analyzed within the paradigm of Southern regional literature, with its distinctive qualities and religious imagery.

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Platten, David. "Wired to the Word: On Reading Thrillers." French Cultural Studies 21, no. 4 (2010): 267–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957155810378573.

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The appearance in 2003 of 21 Georges Simenon novels in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade reaffirmed a widespread consensus that French-language crime fiction, especially the roman noir with its vigil over the political and social ills of the nation, had secured its position as an important vector of French cultural history. Its sister genre, the thriller, has fared less well. Justly criticised for its expedient style and limited intellectual horizons, the thriller continues to appeal to a mass readership drawn from all sectors of society.This article locates its attractions in the ways in which we might once have engaged with the adventure stories of our collective youth that furnished our first solitary contact with literary fiction. It argues that our response to narrative suspense in adventure stories consumed in early adolescence is later rekindled and developed in the more adult thrillers of the modern age. Working within a conceptual framework that includes the psychologically based thrillers of Boileau-Narcejac and Sébastian Japrisot juxtaposed with the adrenalin rush of events supplied by Dan Brown and Maxime Chattam, it analyses the different modalities of suspense and their concomitant reading pleasures, concluding that the thriller meets the expectations not of a certain group of readers but of a certain type of reading experience.

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FINCH, LAURA. "The Un-real Deal: Financial Fiction, Fictional Finance, and the Financial Crisis." Journal of American Studies 49, no. 4 (2015): 731–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875815001693.

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The credit crisis of 2007–8 prompted a Manichean discourse that labeled finance the flighty and unreal other of the solidity of the real economy. Almost overnight the “speculative finance” shifted from a descriptive term to an evaluative one, with freewheeling finance singled out as the main cause of the crisis. The fictionality of finance is, of course, a fiction itself. Not only is finance a part of the real economy but since the 1970s it has played an increasingly significant part in it. This essay aligns with recent work in critical finance studies that puts pressure on the idea that finance can be separated from the real economy. Supplementing the world-historical scale at which this work often remains, this essay theorizes the real abstraction of finance through its lived social experience. The year 1973 was replete with financial events: the end of the Bretton Woods agreement and the gold standard, the Middle East oil crisis, the creation of the Chicago options exchange, and the invention of the Black–Scholes equation governing derivatives. It also saw the birth of the financial thriller with Paul Erdman’sThe Billion Dollar Sure Thing. Seizing upon a formulaic genre and opening it up to a flood of real events from the trading floor, the financial thriller acts as a dynamic interface and sensitive seismograph for theorizing the fictionality of finance. This essay opens with a reading of Bret Easton Ellis’sAmerican Psycho(1991) as an example of a work that renders real abstraction in an explicitly social way. Rather than viewing the novel as a hyperbolically postmodern reflection of abstract financial maneuvers, I argue that it is thickly embedded within the historically specific financial cityscape of 1980s Manhattan. I then turn to a comparative reading of recent financial thrillers written in response to the twenty-first-century credit collapse. Unlike Ellis’s novel, these thrillers strive to keep the unreality of finance segregated from the real economy at the level of plot, while also making use of generic strategies to do so at the level of form, pushing financial data into footnotes, descriptive asides, and a different tonal register of narrative. By reading these thrillers alongsideAmerican Psycho, a book written before the shock of terminal economic crisis, I offer a more historically nuanced reading of their attempts to salvage a workable economy out of the mess of the twenty-first-century American economy.

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Svoboda, Manuela, and Petra Zagar-Sostaric. "How much Artistic Freedom is permitted when it comes to Language? - Analysis of a Crime Novel." European Journal of Social Science Education and Research 5, no. 2 (2018): 50–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ejser-2018-0033.

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Abstract In this article a closer look will be taken at the issue of inaccurately using a foreign language, i.e. German in this particular case, in a crime novel or thriller. Of course, in fiction the author has complete artistic freedom to invent and present things as he/she intends and it doesn`t necessarily have to be realistic or legitimate. But what happens when it comes to an existing language being quoted in fiction? For this purpose David Thomas’ thriller “Blood Relative - How well do you know the one you love?” is analysed regarding parts in which German quotes are used. As the plot is located partly in England and partly in former East Germany (GDR) and the protagonist’s wife is of German origin, direct speech, titles and names are used in German. Subsequently, they are translated into English by the author in order to be understood by the English reader. However, there are many grammar, spelling and semantic mistakes in these German expressions and common small talk quotes. This begs the question, is it justified to disregard linguistic correctness with regards to artistic freedom given the fact that we are dealing with a fictional thriller, or is it nevertheless necessary to be precise concerning foreign language usage? How far may one “test” their artistic freedom in this particular case? In order to answer these questions a detailed analysis of the thriller is performed, concerning artistic freedom and modern literature/light fiction as well as the German language used in quotes and direct speech.

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Kokotkiewicz, Martyna. "Extraordinary Protagonists, Average Issues." Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia 25, no. 1 (2018): 101–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/fsp-2018-0016.

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Abstract Thriller is considered to be a subgenre of criminal fiction, in which the most significant role is played by fast-paced action, suspense, spectacular events. In case of so called international and political thrillers it should also be mentioned that their authors construct their plots around the problems such as global conflicts, international conspiracy, terrorism, the development of nuclear weapon. However, problems commonly mentioned by many authors of other subgenres of criminal fiction, are also present in the novels classified as thrillers. The collapse of well-being society, unstable interpersonal relationships, mental problems of an individual, childhood traumas are therefore often mentioned by the writers, although they do not usually constitute main subjects of the novels. The article concentrates on some examples from international and political thrillers, in which such issues seem to be equally important, written by the most popular Finnish authors of this particular genre, namely Ilkka Remes and Taavi Soininvaara.

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Czyżak, Agnieszka. "Polska literatura najnowsza i Holokaust – edukacyjny potencjał fikcji?" Narracje o Zagładzie, no. 6 (November 23, 2020): 372–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.31261/noz.2020.06.21.

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The article contains considerations regarding memory of the Holocaust in Polish contemporary prose and analyses the arguments for and against fictitious representations of theShoah. The author discusses the changes in treating fiction which narrates the history of Jewish people during the Second World War – from works of fiction published after the war (e.g. Wielki Tydzień by Jerzy Andrzejewski) to popular thrillers written in the 21st century. The main part of this article is devoted to a novel Tworki written by Marek Bieńczyk in 1999, telling a story of young people – Poles and Jews – employed in a mental hospital during German occupation. The novel was at the centre stage of discussion about relationship between fiction and the Shoah theme, yet the author of the article argues that it may serve as an important stepping stone in exemplifying history. This literary vision of the Holocaust (defined as “pastoral thriller”) shows educational possibilities of fiction.

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Gee, Henry. "The Methuselah Gene: A Science Fiction Adventure Thriller." Nature Medicine 6, no. 8 (2000): 857–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/78607z.

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Fisher, Mark. "The Lost Unconscious: Delusions and Dreams in Inception." Film Quarterly 64, no. 3 (2011): 37–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fq.2011.64.3.37.

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An analysis of Christopher Nolan's science-fiction thriller, Inception, which relates it to Nolan's previous films and argues that the film's multilayered nest of worlds and strangely cold action sequences relate to the commodification of the psyche.

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IOVĂNEL, MIHAI. "POPULAR GENRES: SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY, DETECTIVE NOVEL, THRILLER." Dacoromania litteraria 7 (2021): 137–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.33993/drl.2020.7.137.153.

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Winks, Robin W. "The Sinister Oriental: Thriller Fiction and the Asian Scene." Journal of Popular Culture 19, no. 2 (1985): 49–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-3840.1985.00049.x.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Thriller fiction"

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Donnelly, Keith. "Three Deuces Down: A Donald Youngblood Mystery." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2007. http://amzn.com/1588382273.

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"Bored Wall Street whiz kid Donald Youngblood returns to his East Tennessee hometown and on a whim gets a Private Investigator license. Joined by his best friend Billy Two Feathers, a full-blooded Cherokee Indian, they open Cherokee Investigations and for a few years work small cases and just hang out. Then Don is summoned by the rich and powerful Joseph Fleet to find his missing daughter and son-in-law. As Don and Billy go through the motions of investigating the disappearance, a sinister plot unfolds complicated by a restless girlfriend, a New York mob boss and a killer on the loose with Don in his sights. From the backwoods of Tennessee to the coast of Florida to the streets of New York and half way around the world, Donald Youngblood, with the help of some well-connected friends and a nose for trouble, chases an elusive and deadly foe to extract the ultimate revenge and realize the chase will change his life forever."--BOOK JACKET.<br>https://dc.etsu.edu/alumni_books/1000/thumbnail.jpg

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Donnelly, Keith. "Three Devils Dancing: A Donald Youngblood Mystery." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. http://amzn.com/0895873982.

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"In Keith Donnelly's third mystery featuring private investigator Donald Youngblood (after Three Deuces Down and Three Days Dead), all the usual players return in Don's biggest case yet. His quiet home life has become a bit more complicated with live-in love Mary Sanders and quasi-daughter Lacy Malone ruling the roost. Then a father's plea for justice for his dead daughter leads Don into a maze of murder as he tries to unravel the mystery of a strange tattoo that is part of a deadly game with rules so sinister only the devil himself would approve. As the body count mounts and the murders draw national attention, Don and an old FBI nemesis close in on a deranged killer who will not stop until he is either caught or killed. Matter get even more complicated when a young mother ends up in a coma, an old friend is in bad need of counseling, and a drug kingpin calls in a favor. As Don juggles two cases with the help of partner Billy Two Feathers and a new ally, Oscar Morales, he wonders if becoming a private investigator was such a good idea in the first place."--AMAZON<br>https://dc.etsu.edu/alumni_books/1001/thumbnail.jpg

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Donnelly, Keith. "Three Days Dead: A Donald Youngblood Mystery." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2009. http://amzn.com/0895873729.

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"When Tennessee private investigator Donald Youngblood solved the Fairchild case in Three Deuces Down, he vowed never again to go hunting for a missing person. With live-in-love and Mountain Center cop, Mary Sanders, and his faithful black Standard Poodle, Don's life has settled back into its old routine. All of that is about to change. An attractive, precocious teenage girl shows up in his office one morning needing help finding her missing mother. Now, Don must track down a mother gone wrong while trying to find her abandoned daughter a proper home before child welfare gets the scent. To complicate matters, an old flame is being harassed by a former boyfriend, who is not what he appears to be, and she is begging Don to do something about it. Tracking down the missing mother with the help of his best friend and partner and Don's ever-dangerous new friend, the trail of clues leads to a Las Vegas confrontation where Don comes face to face with henchmen of a Vegas bad boy, and nearly pays the ultimate price."--AMAZON<br>https://dc.etsu.edu/alumni_books/1002/thumbnail.jpg

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Donnelly, Keith. "Three Deadly Drops: A Donald Youngblood Mystery." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. http://amzn.com/089587587X.

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"In the fourth Donald Youngblood mystery more than a year has passed since Don closed the file on the Three Devils case. His personal life is trending upward, his business is booming, and no one has come to him with a case likely to get him killed. All of that changes when Jessica Crane walks into Don's office, asking him to look into the apparent heart-attack death of her husband. Don is convinced that Mrs. Crane's request is just the delusion of a grieving widow. As he goes through the motions of his investigations, he uncovers a mysterious note and a 20-year-old photograph of a group of soldiers known as the Southside Seven. Don soon thinks the grieving widow might be on to something. The Silver Star, a soldier with a stress problem, an Army Ranger black ops mission gone wrong, a mysterious assassin, and a missing vial are all pieces to the puzzle that Don races to fit together before anyone else dies. In the desert of New Mexico, the bayou country of Louisiana, the mean streets of Memphis, and small towns in South Carolina and Kentucky, a haunting mystery unfolds as Donald Youngblood uncovers a startling secret from Desert Storm that haunted the seven men who shared it."--AMAZON<br>https://dc.etsu.edu/alumni_books/1003/thumbnail.jpg

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Donnelly, Keith. "Three Dragons Doomed: A Donald Youngblood Mystery." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. http://amzn.com/0895876272.

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"Outside the small town of Saddle Boot, West Virginia, a bulldozer uncovers a long-buried body. Only four living people know it's that of drifter Johnny Cross. But Johnny Cross was not who he appeared to be. In the early-morning hours a few days later, in Mountain Center, Tennessee, a body is dumped in a downtown back alley, a young female dead less than twenty-four hours. Over the next few weeks, two more dead females turn up in East Tennessee. A serial killer with an unusual signature is on the loose. The only thing that connects these events is private investigator Donald Youngblood. Don knows the identities of the body in West Virginia and the dead women dumped in East Tennessee. He also knows the bodies are personal messages for him from a killer seeking revenge. A new and deadly game has begun. In this unique double sequel to Three Days Dead and Three Devils Dancing, Youngblood wrestles with two separate and distinct cases: finding the true identity of Johnny Cross and tracking down a serial killer who seems to be in a big hurry for a final showdown."--AMAZON<br>https://dc.etsu.edu/alumni_books/1004/thumbnail.jpg

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Thomas, Christian. "The Tiberius Torture." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2016. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2195.

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Dev, Namrata. "Malfunction." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2186.

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Malfunction is a science fiction thriller that explores what the other extreme of mental health awareness could look like. A system that is TOO technologically equipped, proactive and sure in its ability to solve every mental health illness. but can such a perfect world ever exist? not everyone in this world has good intentions and if you try to go against the norm...you may not survive.

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Waage, Fred. "The Birth Spoon." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. http://amzn.com/1939289572.

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This mystery is set in the early 1980s and based on actual events. A high-school student unearths dark and deadly secrets of his Appalachian community. The explosive consequences forever mark his own life, his family's, and his town's.<br>https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1009/thumbnail.jpg

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Everett, Katharine More. "Eden." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1589227367791853.

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Mahmoud, Mafaz. "“Get a Problem, Solve a Problem”: Vulnerability, Precarity and Vigilantism in Lee Child’s Jack Reacher Novels." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23253.

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This paper analyzes how vulnerability is represented in the Jack Reacher series, by drawing onwork by Bryan Turner and Judith Butler. The purpose of the research is to investigate the reasonReacher’s acts of vigilantism are needed. I look at examples of vulnerability and precarity foundin the books Killing Floor and Die Trying, and argue that state neglect is the cause of economicand social vulnerability in the towns Margrave and Yorke, leading to precarity expressed ascriminal money and community subjugation controlling the towns. I conclude that the solutionpresented, through vigilantism, is reassuring but insufficient, but that the series, in representing acomplex display of vulnerability and acknowledging the insufficiency of the solution, stressesthe difficulty of presenting a simple solution to the multifaceted nature of the issue ofvulnerability.

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Books on the topic "Thriller fiction"

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1947-, Patterson James, ed. Thriller. Mira, 2006.

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Patterson, James, ed. Thriller. Mira, 2006.

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Chapman, Helen. Thriller. Rising Stars, 2011.

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Merl, James E. Chicago 1871 - a Science Fiction Thriller: A Science Fiction Thriller. Independently Published, 2020.

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Tree, Joshua, and Philipp Tree. Signal: Science Fiction Thriller. Independently Published, 2019.

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Klopfer, Fred. Plan: Historical Fiction Thriller. Klopfer, Susan, 2013.

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Tree, Joshua. Fossil: Science Fiction Thriller. Independently Published, 2018.

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Ansell, Thor. Scry: Science-Fiction Thriller. Independently Published, 2018.

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Kamont (science-Fiction, Thriller). Independently Published, 2021.

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Apps: Science Fiction Thriller. Independently Published, 2021.

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Book chapters on the topic "Thriller fiction"

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Bedore, Pamela. "The Legal Thriller." In The Routledge Introduction to Canadian Crime Fiction. Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003125242-12.

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Simpson, Philip. "Noir and the Psycho Thriller." In A Companion to Crime Fiction. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444317916.ch14.

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Smith, V. Anne. "A Code for Carolyn: A Genomic Thriller." In Science and Fiction. Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04553-1_1.

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Crane, Ralph, and Lisa Fletcher. "Cave Genres/Genre Caves: Reading the Subterranean Thriller." In Popular Fiction and Spatiality. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56902-8_2.

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Brown, Jonathan C. "Bleeding the Thriller: Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Intertextual Crimes." In The Art of Detective Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62768-4_14.

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Ginway, M. Elizabeth. "The Politics of Resistance in Brazil’s Dystopian Thriller 3%." In Studies in Global Science Fiction. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11791-6_9.

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Blouin, Michael J. "John Grisham and the New Economy Thriller." In Mass-Market Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1972–2017. Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89387-7_6.

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Sauerberg, Lars Ole. "Conclusions: In and Beyond the Anglo-American Courts of Fact and Fiction." In The Legal Thriller from Gardner to Grisham. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-40730-6_9.

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Cobley, Paul. "Geopolitical Reality: The Thriller, Global Power, and the Logic of Revelation." In Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-42573-7_11.

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Korte, Barbara. "Victims and Heroes Get All Mixed Up: Gender and Agency in the Thriller." In Heroes and Heroism in British Fiction Since 1800. Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33557-5_11.

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