Guys, I need your recommendations on CBA international intrigue novels for men

[waterfallbooks]

I'm doing another fiction roundup and this time I need help specifically from guys. It's on international intrigue this time (think suspense/thrillers, politics, spies, and double agents in international settings), and my editor wants me to slant it for men. Since I can only guess at what titles guys would like, I need your help. Same qualifications as before:

In print
Published by CBA publisher (i.e. sold in most Christian bookstores)

Some titles and authors I've come up with (and I'd appreciate your thoughts on these as well):

Oliver North
Jefferson Scott
Betrayal in Paris by Doris Elaine Fell
Jeanette Windle
The Jewel in the Crown by Frank Simon
Divided Loyalties by L. K. Malone

Thanks for your help!

[wgjones3]

Not sure if this exactly fits what you're looking for, but the first thoughts that came to mind were:

The Illuminati by Larry Burkette -- Not exactly international in scope but it was the first CBA novel I ever read, about a mock attempt at a global government. It was okay, sort of on the juvininle side, a 3 out of 5 at best.

Rift in Time by Michael Phillips -- I can't say much about it because I found it to be the most long-winded thing I've ever tried to read, so much so I only got about 40 pages in. It's about Noah's Ark, though it's been so long since I even took it out of the bookcase I couldn't tell you much more than that.

Florian's Gate and The Amber Room by T. Davis Bunn -- Two books I picked up used at a junk shop. They're about the "adventures" of an American (I think) antique dealer in Jolly Ole' England. The storyline flows through many Eastern Bloc countries right after the fall of Communism. I haven't read either yet.

The List by Robert Whitlow -- Whitlow is kind of like a CBA John Grisham. Though The List isn't International in scope, some of his other works might be. I wasn't fond of the writing at all, but I found this to be a quite enjoyable book despite the author's various longwinded attempts to convince the reader that he really was, in fact, from North Carolina.

Murder on the Titanic by Jim Walker -- The title pretty much gives the storyline away. When I think of well-written CBA fiction, this is what I think of. I'd give it a 5 of 5. In fact, I had no idea it was a Christian novel--I was interested first and foremost in it because I'm a bit of a Titanic buff.

There was also a Pat Robertson novel that I haven't read. I've heard horrible things about it (characters who stop whatever they're doing to have Bible study and pray, and I seem to remember a reviewer ranting about an NBA superstar who packed a Bible with him everywhere he went). Since I haven't read it, I can't say if it's bad or not. I have seen a lot of bad press for Peretti, too.

[Zanzibar]

Ok, I'm not a man but I know my husband likes books such as:

Ted Dekker's: Blink - A man is blessed/cursed with vision of the future and he has to rescue an Iraqi princess from a fateful marriage. I does have some romance in it too.

A Blessed Child - An Ethiopian boy prophet has to be protected by a man who doesn't even know if he beleives in God. Evil men are after the boy because they think he knows where the Ark of the Covenant is.

Just a couple to get some thoughts going.

Lynnette

[ChristChild]

I'm sorry I don't have any to add beyond those that were mentioned, but I would really like to know where these lists are being published. In particular, the one dealing with Christian Science Fiction that you asked about in another thread.

Thanks,
Shane

[waterfallbooks]

The book roundups will be published in Church Libraries magazine.

[ChristChild]

The book roundups will be published in Church Libraries magazine.

Thanks for the info. :)

Shane