https://jonathanmckay.com/tags/thriller/Recent content in Thriller on Jonathan McKayHugoen-usSat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/from-russia-with-love-james-bond-%235/Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/from-russia-with-love-james-bond-%235/I enjoy James Bond films, and while awaiting the debut of Quantum of Solace, found From Russia with Love on the shelves of Kelly’s lake cabin I picked ithttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/a-drop-of-corruption-shadow-of-the-leviathan-%232/Fri, 28 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/a-drop-of-corruption-shadow-of-the-leviathan-%232/Murder, Magic, Malaise If Romantasy is court intrigue with a swooning heartbeat, this is its jaded sibling: Mysterantasy—suspicious deaths, arcanehttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/change-agent/Thu, 11 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/change-agent/A goofy interpretation of CRISPR tech in the vein of face/off, combined with a future fugitive chase like Minority Report. At his best, Daniel Suarezhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/kill-decision/Sun, 07 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/kill-decision/Disappointing. A cross between Sicario and Dan Brown. A fever dream of the 2010's, what if all the conspiracies were true? I'm no fan of the militaryhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/city-of-blades-the-divine-cities-%232/Thu, 02 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/city-of-blades-the-divine-cities-%232/Takes on moral injury rather than themes of societal oppression, and I don't know if the author did a worse job, or if I'm just sadly closer to thehttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/battle-royale/Wed, 09 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/battle-royale/The bloody seed of the metaverse exists right here.https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/fall-or-dodge-in-hell/Mon, 24 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/fall-or-dodge-in-hell/After having been burned by Seveneves, I followed the advice of other reviews and read the first third of the book, until they enter the matrixhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/terms-of-use/Mon, 11 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/terms-of-use/A thriller about a social tech company entering the Chinese market and rigging US elections? You have my attention. Welcome to Circles (not to be confusedhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/freedom-daemon-%232/Sat, 06 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/freedom-daemon-%232/Meh. The commentary on the state of capitalism was much better captured in Capital in the 21st Century, and there were very few ideas not alreadyhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/anathem/Sat, 22 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/anathem/The ideas were great, and the pseudophilosophy was fun. Actually I found myself bored in the action sequences that seemed to jar with the morehttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-andromeda-strain-andromeda-%231/Tue, 22 Jan 2002 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-andromeda-strain-andromeda-%231/This week, my wife tested positive for COVID. We don't know where she got it, may as well have been outer space. I watched our internal quarantine