Poll- Your Favorite Action Thriller Trope

[Nellie]

Curious minds want to know 🧐 What's your favorite action thriller trope:
1- Missing Person
2-Cold Case
3-Hidden Treasure/Ancient Secrets
4-Terrorism/Conspiracy

[CBRetriever]

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[Icewineanne]

Cold case for sure

[Nellie]

Terrific. Thanks for participating! I'll keep this in mind for my next series.

[Andy]

Missing person, cold case, and conspiracy.

[Guy]

First, as a thriller author, it am a little surprised there are so few threads on all of the great thrillers out there. Just sayin' I see other genres and thriller (I thought) was a popular genre. Oh well.

My favorite tropes are mixed. The categories you provide above are a bit of the cliche and older style in my view.

I think in terms of James Rollins, Dan Brown and I think in terms of a cross between political-techno-religious and for me that is the sweet spot.

Of the categories above, the treasure / ancient secrets is my favorite and I actually wrote one that list on BookTrib Best 25 books of 2021 and tagged it Indiana Jones meets Da Vinci code. So yes, I LOVE that style. Sadly, you don't see as much of it as we used to see, but to be honest most of the best secrets have been covered.