Adventure fiction is a genre of fiction in which an adventure, an exciting undertaking involving risk and physical danger, forms the main storyline. Adventure novels and short stories were popular subjects for American pulp magazines, which dominated American popular fiction between the Progressive Era and the 1950s. Adventure fiction often overlaps with other genres, notably war novels, crime novels, sea stories, Robinsonades, spy stories (as in the works of John Buchan, Eric Ambler and Ian Fleming), science fiction, fantasy, (Robert E. Howard and J.R.R. Tolkien both combined the secondary world story with the adventure novel)[6] and Westerns. Not all books within these genres are adventures. Adventure fiction takes the setting and premise of these other genres, but the fast-paced plot of an adventure focuses on the actions of the hero within the setting.
Author: Lee Child A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher #17): Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, eyes on the road. Another man next to him, telling stories that don’t add up. A woman in the back, silent and worried. And next to her, a huge man with a…
Author: Lee Child Deep Down (Jack Reacher #16.5): Summoned by Military Intelligence to Washington, D.C., Reacher is sent undercover. The assignment that awaits him: The army is meeting with its Capitol Hill paymasters for classified talks on a new, state-of-the-art sniper rifle for U.S. forces. But vital details about the weapon are leaking—straight from the…
Author: Lee Child The Affair (Jack Reacher #16): March 1997. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Carter Crossing, Mississippi. Just down the road is a big army base. Is the murderer a local guy – or is he a soldier? Jack Reacher, still a major in the military police, is sent…
Author: Lee Child Second Son (Jack Reacher #15.5): Ever wondered what early experiences shaped Reacher’s explosive career as butt-kicker supreme the one-man guided-missile battler for justice? This short story features an incident in Jack’s teen years as the youngest son of a tough career US Marine on a faraway military base in the Pacific. -goodreads…
Author: Lee Child Worth Dying For (Jack Reacher #15): Follows 61 Hours There’s deadly trouble in the corn country of Nebraska . . . and Jack Reacher walks right into it. First he falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it’s the unsolved case of…
Author: Lee Child 61 Hours (Jack Reacher #14): Jack Reacher is back. The countdown has begun. Get ready for the most exciting 61 hours of your life. #1 “New York Times” bestselling author Lee Child’s latest thriller is a ticking time bomb of suspense that builds electric tension on every page. Sixty-one hours. Not a…
Author: Lee Child Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher #13): Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of tell-tale signs. Mostly because they’re nervous. By definition they’re all first-timers. There are twelve things to look for: No one who has worked in law enforcement will ever forget them. New York City. The subway,…
Author: Lee Child James Penney’s New Identity / Guy Walks Into a Bar (Jack Reacher #12.5): These two short stories are part of the Storycuts series. In ‘James Penney’s New Identity’, in the dry desert of Southern California, James Penney is laid off from the plant after seventeen loyal years of service. With the threat…
Author: Lee Child Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher #12): Two lonely towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher never turns back. It’s not in his nature. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets is big trouble. So in Lee Child’s electrifying new novel,…
Author: Lee Child Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher #11): From a helicopter high above the empty California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night…. In Chicago, a woman learns that an elite team of ex–army investigators is being hunted down one by one…. And on the streets of Portland, Jack Reacher—soldier, cop,…
