The World of the Thriller Author:Ralph Harper Not really a history,but existential themes and the psychology of the reader's involvement. Deals with aspects of thrillers; Crisis, terror, suspense, chaos,etc. drawing upon Le Carre,Ian Fleming[James Bond],Graham Greene,etc since the first precursor in 1903. Alluding to Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard,Kafka,and Jaspers, poetic justice and the absurd a... more »re considered as well as the reader's "Do I myself know who I am?". False identities, lies, concealment, and exposure are within the thriller as well as the reader. What is mote real, the day-dreaming self or the self in "reality"? Or is there a middle "third" self?« less