13 Best thriller books like The Truth Machine by James L. Halperin

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The Truth Machine

By: James L. Halperin

3.99

Format: 416 pages,

"It is the year 2004. Violent Crime is the number one political issue in America. Now the Swift and…

If you liked the thriller plot in The Truth Machine by James L. Halperin , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Truth Machine

By: James L. Halperin

3.99

Format: 416 pages,

"It is the year 2004. Violent Crime is the number one political issue in America. Now the Swift and… read more

Similar categories in James L. Halperin's The Truth Machine book and James L. Halperin's The Truth Machine

  • childrens
  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • modern
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
Cover of Disclosure by Michael Crichton

2. Disclosure

By: Michael Crichton

3.79

Format: 464 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Thomas Sanders' world collapses in just 24 hours - he is passed over for promotion, his new woman b… read more

Similar categories in Michael Crichton's Disclosure book and James L. Halperin's The Truth Machine

  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • novels
  • fiction
"Power is neither male or female."

-Michael Crichton, Disclosure

"Friendships are nice. So is competence."

-Michael Crichton, Disclosure

"Sometimes women scare the hell out of me."

-Michael Crichton, Disclosure

"The system didn't screw you. The system revealed you."

-Michael Crichton, Disclosure

Cover of Deadspeak (Necroscope, #4) by Brian Lumley

3. Deadspeak (Necroscope, #4)

By: Brian Lumley

4.14

Format: 487 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A new vampire stalks the earth, and only Harry Keogh can defeat him! The silence of the grave is… read more

Similar categories in Brian Lumley's Deadspeak (Necroscope, #4) book and James L. Halperin's The Truth Machine

  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Vamphyri! (Necroscope, #2) by Brian Lumley

4. Vamphyri! (Necroscope, #2)

By: Brian Lumley

4.11

Format: 470 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Not the end of life, Harry Keogh discovered--and not the end of his battle against he terrible evil… read more

Similar categories in Brian Lumley's Vamphyri! (Necroscope, #2) book and James L. Halperin's The Truth Machine

  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2) by Elmore Leonard

5. Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)

By: Elmore Leonard

3.93

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Ordell Robbie makes a fine living selling illegal high-powered weaponry to the wrong people. Jackie… read more

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2) book and James L. Halperin's The Truth Machine

  • thriller
  • novels
  • fiction
"He sat in the living room in the dark, an expert at waiting, a nineteen-year veteran of it, waiting for people who failed to appear, missed court dates because they forgot or didn't care, and took of…"

-Elmore Leonard, Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)

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6. Immortality

By: Milan Kundera

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

This breathtaking, reverberating survey of human nature finds Kundera still attempting to work out … read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"The reign of imagology begins where history ends"

-Milan Kundera, Immortality

"واحسرتاه! ففي حالة الحب يكفي القليل جداً لزرع اليأس في النفس!."

-Milan Kundera, Immortality

"To be absolutely modern is to be the ally of one's grave diggers."

-Milan Kundera, Immortality

"I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them."

-Milan Kundera, Immortality

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7. Rising Sun

By: Michael Crichton

3.65

Format: 399 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In a novel set within the arena of volatile Japanese-American relations, business moguls compete fo… read more

Similar categories in Michael Crichton's Rising Sun book and James L. Halperin's The Truth Machine

  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • novels
  • fiction
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8. Airframe

By: Michael Crichton

3.74

Format: 431 pages, Paperback

The twin jet plane en route to Denver from Hong Kong is merely a green radar blip half an hour off … read more

Similar categories in Michael Crichton's Airframe book and James L. Halperin's The Truth Machine

  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • novels
  • fiction
"Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It’s bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it ev…"

-Michael Crichton, Airframe

"I understand,' Marder said. 'But a claim filed in a court has limited publicity. Newsline is going to present these crazy claims to forty million viewers. And at the same time, they'll automatically …"

-Michael Crichton, Airframe

"There's only one more thing I can tell you, Katherine. You work in a complex business. If you try to explain that complexity to Martin, you'll be frustrated. You’ll feel he isn't interested. He'll pr…"

-Michael Crichton, Airframe

"What she was looking for was a way to shape the story so that it unfolded now, in a pattern that the viewer could follow. The best frames engaged the viewer by presenting the story as conflict betwee…"

-Michael Crichton, Airframe

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9. Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Tricked by the uncle who has stolen his inheritance, young David Balfour is kidnapped and bound for… read more

Similar categories in Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1) book and James L. Halperin's The Truth Machine

  • novels
  • fiction
"And life is all a variorum, at the best."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

"To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

"There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

"But besides that I was of an unforgiving disposition from my birth, slow to take offense, slower to forget it, and now incensed both against my companion and myself."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

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10. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

By: Peter Watts

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more

Similar categories in Peter Watts's Blindsight (Firefall, #1) book and James L. Halperin's The Truth Machine

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"

-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Cover of Slasher Girls & Monster Boys by Jay Kristoff, Jonathan Maberry, Marie Lu, Leigh Bardugo, Carrie Ryan, Stefan Bachmann, A.G. Howard, Cat Winters, April Genevieve Tucholke, Kendare Blake, Danielle  Paige, Megan Shepherd, Nova Ren Suma, McCormick Templeman

11. Slasher Girls & Monster Boys

By: Jay Kristoff , Jonathan Maberry , Marie Lu , Leigh Bardugo , Carrie Ryan , Stefan Bachmann , A.G. Howard , Cat Winters , April Genevieve Tucholke , Kendare Blake , Danielle Paige , Megan Shepherd , Nova Ren Suma , McCormick Templeman

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

For fans of Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Lois Duncan, and Daphne Du Maurier comes a powerhouse anthol… read more

Similar categories in Jay Kristoff's Slasher Girls & Monster Boys book and James L. Halperin's The Truth Machine

  • thriller
  • fiction
"Not all monsters are filled with darkness."

-Jay Kristoff, Slasher Girls & Monster Boys

"You name drop authors like other girls drop boy bands."

-Jay Kristoff, Slasher Girls & Monster Boys

"What I think and what I actually do are two different things. That's what makes us good or evil."

-Jay Kristoff, Slasher Girls & Monster Boys

"It took strength to be quiet. It took strength to be kind. It took strength to let other people's cruelty bounce right off of you."

-Jay Kristoff, Slasher Girls & Monster Boys

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12. Timeline

By: Michael Crichton

3.87

Format: 489 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In an Arizona desert, a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-fou… read more

Similar categories in Michael Crichton's Timeline book and James L. Halperin's The Truth Machine

  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"In reality, time doesn't pass; we pass. Time itself is invariant. It just is. Therefore, past and future aren't separate locations, the way New York and Paris are separate locations. And since the pa…"

-Michael Crichton, Timeline

"Because in the late twentieth century, you couldn't seriously ask other people to think that you believed in honor and truth, and the purity of the body, the defense of women, the sanctity of true lo…"

-Michael Crichton, Timeline

"In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The great fear is not of disease or death, but of boredom. A …"

-Michael Crichton, Timeline

"But where will this mania for entertainment end? What will people do when they get tired of television? When they get tired of movies? We already know the answer—they go into participatory activities…"

-Michael Crichton, Timeline

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13. Deadspawn (Necroscope, #5)

By: Brian Lumley

4.15

Format: 608 pages, Mass Market Paperback

There's a maniacal murderer on the loose, brutally slaughtering young women with a ferocity that ri… read more

Similar categories in Brian Lumley's Deadspawn (Necroscope, #5) book and James L. Halperin's The Truth Machine

  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fiction
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14. Between the Strokes of Night

By: Charles Sheffield

3.72

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

By leaving their home planet after the final nuclear war, a group of young people live to see the s… read more

Similar categories in Charles Sheffield's Between the Strokes of Night book and James L. Halperin's The Truth Machine

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of In the Balance (Worldwar, #1) by Harry Turtledove

15. In the Balance (Worldwar, #1)

By: Harry Turtledove

3.82

Format: 465 pages, Paperback

War seethed across the planet. Machines soared through the air, churned through the seas, crawled a… read more

Similar categories in Harry Turtledove's In the Balance (Worldwar, #1) book and James L. Halperin's The Truth Machine

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"Holy Jesus God, it's the Gerps shootin' us up!" the manager shouted. He hadn't known whether to say Germans or Japs, and came out with both at once."

-Harry Turtledove, In the Balance (Worldwar, #1)

Cover of Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2) by Orson Scott Card

16. Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)

By: Orson Scott Card

4.10

Format: 382 pages, Paperback

Now available in mass market, the revised, definitive edition of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning … read more

Similar categories in Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2) book and James L. Halperin's The Truth Machine

  • science fiction
  • novels
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"The piggies were not to be disturbed-"

-Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)

"Darkness bound them closer than light."

-Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)

"I am a disbeliever in the unbelievable."

-Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)

"Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to."

-Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)

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17. Ragtime

By: E.L. Doctorow

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tape… read more

Similar categories in E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime book and James L. Halperin's The Truth Machine

  • novels
  • fiction
"It is the law of wealth that such people only profit from the money that is taken from them."

-E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime

"You're nothing more than a clever prostitute. You accepted the conditions in which you found yourself and you triumphed."

-E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime

"It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction."

-E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime

"Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."

-E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime

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18. 2010: Odyssey Two

By: Arthur C. Clarke

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When 2001: A Space Odyssey first shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s, the nov… read more

Similar categories in Arthur C. Clarke's 2010: Odyssey Two book and James L. Halperin's The Truth Machine

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
"Humor was the enemy of desire."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

"It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

"Men knew better than they realized, when they placed the abode of the gods beyond the reach of gravity."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

"They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

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19. Fear Nothing (Moonlight Bay, #1)

By: Dean Koontz

4.00

Format: 448 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Christopher Snow is the best-known resident of 12,000-strong Moonlight Bay, California. This is bec… read more

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  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fiction
"The dead are merely the countrymen of my future."

-Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing (Moonlight Bay, #1)

"The windows were heavily draped, and the milk-pitcher moon couldn't find gaps through which to pour itself. All was blackness on blackness."

-Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing (Moonlight Bay, #1)

"Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next."

-Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing (Moonlight Bay, #1)

"I stopped in St. Bernadette's Cemetery one of my favorite places... The trunks of six giant oaks rise like columns supporting a ceiling formed by their interlocking crowns. In the quiet space below, …"

-Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing (Moonlight Bay, #1)

Cover of The Source (Necroscope, #3) by Brian Lumley

20. The Source (Necroscope, #3)

By: Brian Lumley

4.15

Format: 505 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The third book in the Necroscope series traces the battle between Harry Keogh and the horrifying Va… read more

Similar categories in Brian Lumley's The Source (Necroscope, #3) book and James L. Halperin's The Truth Machine

  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of The Shadowglass (The Bone Witch, #3) by Rin Chupeco

21. The Shadowglass (The Bone Witch, #3)

By: Rin Chupeco

4.28

Format: 449 pages, Hardcover

In the highly anticipated finale to the Bone Witch trilogy, Tea’s life—and the fate of the kingdoms… read more

Similar categories in Rin Chupeco's The Shadowglass (The Bone Witch, #3) book and James L. Halperin's The Truth Machine

  • fiction
"It was hard work, killing nightmares."

-Rin Chupeco, The Shadowglass (The Bone Witch, #3)

"Karma is a sweet, unforgiving mistress."

-Rin Chupeco, The Shadowglass (The Bone Witch, #3)

"Guilt feels heavier on good men's shoulders."

-Rin Chupeco, The Shadowglass (The Bone Witch, #3)

"Our value changes depending on how we perceive our worth."

-Rin Chupeco, The Shadowglass (The Bone Witch, #3)

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22. Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive

By: Philipp Dettmer

4.59

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think ab… read more

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"Life hates nothing as much as wasting resources."

-Philipp Dettmer, Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive

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23. Weeds

By: Amanda Wilkin

2.98

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Sometimes sowing the seeds of change means getting your hands dirty. Climate activist Shirley Wa… read more

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24. Fake

By: Erica Katz

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Boys’ Club, a gripping novel set in the high-stakes world of art forgery tha… read more

Similar categories in Erica Katz's Fake book and James L. Halperin's The Truth Machine

  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back by Alden Wicker

25. To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back

By: Alden Wicker

4.32

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

A Silent Spring for your wardrobe, To Dye For is a jolting exposé that reveals the true cost of the… read more

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26. The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health

By: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

4.52

Format: 934 pages, Kindle Edition

#1 on AMAZON, and a NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, USA TODAY and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY NATIONAL B… read more

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Cover of Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell

27. Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

By: Tony Fadell

4.33

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Written for anyone who wants to grow at work—from young grads navigating their first jobs to CEOs d… read more

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28. Red Valkyries: The Revolutionary Women of Eastern Europe

By: Kristen R. Ghodsee

4.18

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The overlooked revolutionary women of Eastern Europe and their contribution to socialist feminist h… read more

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Cover of More Bedtime Stories for Cynics (Bedtime Stories for Cynics, #2) by Nick Offerman

29. More Bedtime Stories for Cynics (Bedtime Stories for Cynics, #2)

By: Nick Offerman

3.20

Format: 176 pages, Audible Audio

Nick Offerman and his posse of high-profile guests present this series of 12 short stories written … read more

Similar categories in Nick Offerman's More Bedtime Stories for Cynics (Bedtime Stories for Cynics, #2) book and James L. Halperin's The Truth Machine

  • fiction
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30. Bury the Corpse of Colonialism: The Revolutionary Feminist Conference of 1949

By: Elisabeth B. Armstrong

4.39

Format: 206 pages, Hardcover

An intimate look at the 1949 Asian Women’s Conference, the movements it drew from, and its influenc… read more

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31. Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion

By: Gary Webb

4.29

Format: 601 pages, Kindle Edition

In July 1995, San Jose Mercury-News reporter Gary Webb found the Big One--the blockbuster story eve… read more

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"I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV shows, and judging journalism contests. And then I wrote some stories that made me realize how sadly misplaced my blis…"

-Gary Webb, Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion

"If we had met five years ago, you wouldn't have found a more staunch defender of the newspaper industry than me ... I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV sh…"

-Gary Webb, Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion

"One of the questions I have been asked many times since this story broke is this: Now that the facts are out there, what can we do? My answer, depressing and cynical as it may be, is always the same.…"

-Gary Webb, Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion

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James L. Halperin

3.99

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3.79

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4.14

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To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back

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4.32

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