Political & Thrillers

Brain Twister

by Laurence M. Janifer Read by Catharine Eastman 4
"Mark Phillips" is, or are, two writers: Randall Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer. Their joint pen-name, derived from their middle …

Phineas Finn the Irish Member

by Anthony Trollope Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Phineas Finn is the sequel to “Can you Forgive Her?” and the second novel in Trollope’s Palliser series. The eponymous hero is a young Irish…

El conde de Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas Read by Epachuko 4.8
El joven marino Edmundo Dantés, es encarcelado injustamente a raíz de unas malsanas envidias y condenado sin remedio a prisi&o…

Caleb Williams or Things As They Are

by William Godwin Read by Bev J Stevens 4.4
The novel describes the downfall of Ferdinando Falkland, a British squire, and his attempts to ruin and destroy the life of Caleb Williams, …

A Poor Wise Man

by Mary Roberts Rinehart Read by Celine Major 4.4
Mary Roberts Rinehart offers a superb blend of romance and suspense amidst political tensions in this story set in early 20th Century Americ…

The Angel of Terror

by Edgar Wallace Read by Allyson Hester 4.1
Beautiful Jean Briggerland is the epitome of evilness in this twisting and turning thriller. She plots many different ways to steal her new …

Bernard Treves's Boots

by Laurence Clarke Read by David Wales 4.6
In "Bernard Treves's Boots," Manton finds himself entangled in a web of deception and intrigue that far exceeds his expectations. …

The Moonstone

by Wilkie Collins Read by Tony Addison 3.6
Said to be the first detective novel ever written, it is wonderful for its blending of the intrigues of romance with the conventional sleigh…

King of the Khyber Rifles

by Talbot Mundy Read by Brett W. Downey 4.5
Athelstan King is a British Secret Agent stationed in India at the beginning of WWI. He is attached to the Khyber Rifles regiment as a cover…

Quintus Oakes

by Charles Ross Jackson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
There have been a series of assaults at the manor house, one sending the mistress of the house insane with fear, another escalating to murde…

The Story of a Patriot

by Upton Sinclair Read by Lee Smalley 4.1
"100%: The Story of a Patriot" dramatically recounts the adventures of a poor uneducated young man who lives by his wits and guile…

Twenty Years After

by Alexandre Dumas Read by John Van Stan 4.8
Volume 2 of The d'Artagnan Romances begins twenty years after "The Three Musketeers." Since then, d'Artagnan's career has stagnate…

Phineas Redux

by Anthony Trollope Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Phineas Finn is the fourth in Trollope's series of six Palliser novels. At the end of Phineas Finn, the second novel in the series, Phineas…

John Dene of Toronto

by Herbert George Jenkins Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
John Dene comes to England with a great invention, and the intention of gingering-up the Admiralty. His directness and unconventional method…

A Vital Question

by Nikolai Chernyshevsky Read by Expatriate 3.9
Despised by Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, What Is To Be Done? is a fascinating, sympathetic story of idealistic revolutionaries in mid-nineteenth…

The Man with the Clubfoot

by Valentine Williams Read by Mark Nelson 4.7
"The Man with the Clubfoot" is one of the most ingenious and sinister secret agents in Europe. It is to him that the task is assig…

The Masquerader

by Katherine Cecil Thurston Read by Tom Weiss 4.5
The Masquerader is one of two Katherine Cecil Thurston’s books that appeared on the Publisher’s Weekly best-seekers list in 1905 (The other,…

The Three Hostages

by John Buchan Read by Kimberly Krause 3.6
The Three Hostages is the fourth of five Richard Hannay novels. The Richard Hannay novels are action/mystery/spy novels with a James bond fe…

Omega

by Camille Flammarion Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Omega: The Last Days of the World transports listeners to a thought-provoking vision of the 25th century, where humanity faces an impending …

The Chartreuse of Parma

by Stendhal Read by Antony Brown 3
This book is more often called The Charterhouse of Parma in English, because "Charterhouse" is the English word for a Carthusian m…

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