This morning I was on track to having a rare win against my computer. Then bloody Windows suddenly, without warning, closed my system down so it could automatically upgrade my magnificent Vista operating system. A great improvement on XP, which at least when it lost my work it as an accident. A few hours later I spotted the upgrade warning icon. Continue Reading

Any discussion related to the thrillers can hardly be complete, without referring to the magnanimous contribution of Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock. This outstanding director of thriller movies was born in 1899 in England. In his 60 years’ career, he has directed over 50 films, both in UK and then in Hollywood. Rearing a keenness for photography, Continue Reading

Thriller is one of the most enjoyable and sought after category of literature. This has led many thrillers to be turned into films. Despite the difficulty of discussing all the thrillers and their movie versions choronologically, we would try to have an overview of some of them. Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Identity was made into a movie, that used Continue Reading

Thriller publishers are now focusing on the new form of media publishing, giving special emphasis on spy and military gaming. This form of thriller publication will target the first person shooter generation. Initial planning is to give service to the providers by mobile, video games and by internet services. The new media for Thrillers was Continue Reading

An overview of some contemporary thriller writers, who overwhelmed the readers with their writings are given below. Stephen Hunter is a grand master of the thriller genre today. His nuclear nightmare novel, from Cold War–era, The Day Before Midnight hijacks the readers to the thrilling experience of the past. His Point of Impact introduces us to Continue Reading

Sherlock Holmes, the most admired sleuth in the history of thrillers, first appeared in 1887, in A Study in Scarlet. The creator of this British detective, Scottish doctor Sir Arthur Conan Doyle got him solve mysterious cases in as many as 4 novels and 56 short stories. Conan Doyle has always referred to his colleague Dr. Joseph Bell as his Continue Reading

As soon as we come across this name, a strange sense trickles down our spines and a thin, pale face with a pair of sharp, devilish eyes and two sharp canines jutting out from the mouth, resurfaces in our minds. One of the most famous thriller characters after Sheridan le Fanu's classic Carmilla, which is said to have influenced this enormously Continue Reading

John Ray Grisham was born in1955. He is an American ex-politician, retired attorney and novelist. In 1967the family settled in the town of Southaven in DeSoto County, Mississippi. Grisham graduated from Southaven High School. He was encouraged by his mother both in building a reading and writing habit and was well influenced by the work of John Continue Reading

Some of the most well known thriller writers are described below: Alistair MacLean. In 1955, he had come up with his impressive classic wartime naval adventure, H.M.S. Ulysses. His works are persuasive and pleasurable. His some other works include The Guns of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare, Ice Station Zebra, The Golden Rendezvous, When Eight Bells Continue Reading

The narrative techniques in literature started in ancient age. Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer's Odyssey used the similar style. But the thrillers are separately taken into consideration just a few centuries ago. In Odyssey, the hero Odysseus has to vie with villains to be reunited with his wife Penelope. Odysseus uses his grey-matter instead of force to Continue Reading