Annal:2005 Barry Award for Best Thriller
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Results of the Barry Award in the year 2005. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
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Rain Storm: A John Rain Thriller
- 2005 Barry-Thriller winner
- Score: 10.55
In Rain Storm, Rain has fled to Brazil to escape the killing business and the enemies who have been encircling him. But his knack for making death seem to have been of “natural causes” and his ability to operate unnoticed in Asia continue to create unwelcome demand for his services. His old employer, the CIA, persuades him to take on a high-risk assignment: a ruthless arms dealer supplying criminal groups throughout Southeast Asia.
The upside? Financial, of course, along with the continued chimera of moral redemption. But first, Rain must survive the…
Scarecrow: A Shane Schofield Thriller
- 2005 Barry-Thriller nominee
- Score: 6.55
There are fifteen targets, the finest warriors in the world—commandos, spies, terrorists. And they must all be dead by twelve noon, today. The price on their heads: almost $20 million each.
Among the names on the target list, one stands out. An enigmatic Marine named Shane Schofield, call-sign: Scarecrow.
Schofield is plunged into a headlong race around the world, pursued by a fearsome collection of international bounty hunters—including the “Black Knight,” a notoriously ruthless hunter who seems intent on eliminating only Schofield.
The race is on…
- 2005 Barry-Thriller nominee
- Score: 6.55
The job of a high-risk courier is very simple. You pick something up. You drop something off. The hard part is not getting killed.
When Kyra, the daughter of Big Jake Rynerson—one of the world’s wealthiest men—is kidnapped in the Galapagos Islands, professional courier Simon Leonidovich is hired to deliver the ransom. But playing bagman for a billionaire is not so simple—not when so many people stand to gain by Kyra’s disappearance, and not when someone close to Big Jake is playing for the wrong team. To complicate matters, Simon finds himself falling for Big…
Whirlwind: A Novel
- 2005 Barry-Thriller nominee
- Score: 6.55
Charlie McKenzie is the best at what he does, and what he does best of all is the CIA’s dirty work. At least he did until his bosses double-crossed him. Jailed and disgraced to cover up a mammoth intelligence blunder, Charlie wants to get even.
Opportunity knocks when Irina Kolodenkova, a young Russian spy, stumbles across a top-secret technology called Whirlwind, the most important military breakthrough since the atomic bomb. Charlie’s the only one with the very special skills needed to track her down and retrieve it. The desk jockeys who betrayed Charlie…
- 2005 Barry-Thriller nominee
- 2005 Steel Dagger shortlist
- Score: 12.55
The sins of the past reverberate into the present, in an extraordinary novel by the new master of international suspense.
It was an ordinary-looking photograph. Just the portrait of a man. But the very sight of it chilled Allon to the bone.
Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to authenticate a painting, but the real object of his search becomes something else entirely: to find out the truth about the photograph that has turned his world upside down. It is the face of the unnamed man who brutalized his mother in the last days of…
Paranoia: A Novel
- 2005 Barry-Thriller nominee
- 2004 Steel Dagger shortlist
- Score: 12.55
Adam Cassidy is twenty-six and a low level employee at a high-tech corporation who hates his job. When he manipulates the system to do something nice for a friend, he finds himself charged with a crime. Corporate Security gives him a choice: prison—or become a spy in the headquarters of their chief competitor, Trion Systems.
They train him. They feed him inside information. Now, at Trion, he’s a star, skyrocketing to the top. He finds he has talents he never knew he possessed. He’s rich, drives a Porsche, lives in a fabulous apartment, and works directly for…
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