Looking for some recommendations for my dad who will be spending 4 days in the hospital recovering from heart surgery. He leans more to the thriller/espionage genre but prefers fast pacing and to come away from a novel having learned something new (skills, body of knowledge, geographic info, etc). Allergic to subpar writing or unlikable characters, he’s a Stephen King Constant Reader and likes classics as well as lengthy epics like Lonesome Dove and Shogun but might need something lighter for hospital reading.
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Joe Hill is King’s son and his newest book, King Sorrow, is fantastic. Loved it so much I immediately started it over when I finished.
I’m going to guess he’s read 11/22/63, but that sounds like it would fit the bill if he hasn’t.
I think Knitting Death could be a good one for him! I finished it recently and it’s a nice quick read that transports you
John Sandford’s Prey series
I could put the entire Red Sparrow trilogy down in four days. Go with that. Starts with Red Sparrow, author is Jason Matthews. Long, but modern east vs west espionage with great characters. And Matthews is a former spook. So he knows what he’s talking about. Edit: forgot to say at the end of every chapter is a recipe. It’s random as fuck but the few I’ve made are amazing. He collected them all from when he was stationed.
If you want to go more in the thriller direction, slightly away from espionage but one single *incredibly* cinematic and hard to put down story, get him I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes. It’s more of the Day of the Jackall type of thing.
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