Thrillers, suspense and adventure

Thrillers were the agency's second largest group, and the listings cover most of the sub-genres that sold in the late 1990s and 2000s: legal, medical, political, techno and supernatural. Paul Mark Tag's Category 5 put a Navy meteorologist against an engineered hurricane season in 2007. Brian Kenneth Swain's World Hunger imagined a seed company whose genetically modified crops carried a hidden cost. Maureen Meehan Aplin listed two Wyoming legal thrillers, Powder River Poison, about a rancher fighting a coalbed methane company, and Snake River Secret. Alan Payne's The Q Conspiracy began with a yacht sinking in December 1947.

A few thrillers in this group reached print. Brian Dorner's medical thriller A Cure by Death was listed with Beijia Publishing House in Shanghai, one of the agency's foreign sales. Michael S. Patterson's The Family Man was published by Macadam/Cage in October 2000, and Larry Kelter's By Executive Order by PublishAmerica. Nigel Mitchell's Trojan Horse also appeared on the agency's foreign publications list. One title, Hypershot, survives twice under different file names, which the archive has left as it found them.