Kashmir jumper
John Williams on Bunker 13, a fire-breathing debut by Aniruddha Bahal that leaps from satire to thriller
Spider
David Cronenberg is more a master of the unfilmable literary adaptation than a horror merchant these days and this is clearly a labour of love.
Gavin Lyall
Thriller writer who really knew about the wrong side of the sky
Cusack lined up for next Grisham film
Latest legal thriller adaptation to star John Cusack as a rogue juror
Just because you’re paranoid…
Michael Dibdin's conspiratorial novel, the latest Aurelio Zen thriller And Then You Die, is unnervingly close to Italian reality, says Tobias Jones
‘I think bank robbers are fabulous’
Jeffrey Archer thinks they're rubbish, but Martina Cole's East End crime novels are bestsellers in Essex - and prisoners everywhere just can't get enough of them. Jonathan Margolis meets her.
Working IT out: Jeffrey Deaver
Jeffrey Deaver is a thriller writer. The film rights to his latest novel, The Blue Nowhere, have been bought by Joel Silver. Here he describes the role technology plays in his wiritng life
Don’t Look Now
Philip French: It's the best occult thrillersince Dead of Night in 1945... Pace the title, we find itimpossible to look away.
Robert Ludlum
Prolific thriller writer whose conspiratorial plots of unimaginable evil defined the airport novel.
£28m two-book deal lures Crichton to HarperCollins
The author Michael Crichton has left his publisher after 32 years in favour of a £28m two-book deal with HarperCollins, it emerged yesterday.
They’re playing our book
The simple bit was writing a thriller with her husband. The complications began when Hollywood came calling, using Joseph Fiennes and Heather Graham as the bait...
The e-book: and now a new chapter begins
One day, Dick Francis and Dickens will be read at the touch of a screen. But Jack Schofield finds that before e-literature pushes aside print, publishers will have to find a new market