Political Thriller Novels /Political-Thriller-Novels.html An index to my favourite poltical thriller novels. Superpower politics is an eternal subject for thriller writers. First it was Russia, the next one will be China. House of Cards is also a great political thriller, with a great style where the main character directly addresses the reader in asides. political thriller novels thriller novel political novel political thriller novels superpower politics is an eternal subject for thriller writers the genre matured with the cold war - which also led to many classic espionage thrillers what will be the next big topic for political thrillers china i think so, and i wrote about it at length here there are, though, other types of political thrillers, which may just cover the politics within a particular government, even a political party gorky park by martin cruz smith is one that comes to mind, although some would describe it as detective fiction there are, inevitably overlaps between genres and sub-genres, and many books will be tagged with several categories the hunt for red october is a political thriller in many aspects, but also one of the classic techno-thrillers subpage_bullet_links_with_descriptions