He followed this up with another hugely successful political thriller, 'Seven Days in May' (1964).

After Mr. Noyce made the successful thriller "Dead Calm" in 1989, he was invited to Hollywood.

The idea was so compelling that he interrupted a run of successful historical thrillers to concentrate on it.

Mr. Bayer, the author of such successful thrillers as "Switch" and "Pattern Crimes," has not forgotten how to write.

Frankenheimer followed with another successful political thriller, Seven Days in May (1964).

As in Hitchcock movies, successful thrillers have to be tangled and improbable, without straying into the land of the idiotic.

In 2002, Basu starred in the year's most successful thriller, Raaz.

More recently, she had a supporting role in the successful French thriller 36, Quai des Orfèvres.

All successful thrillers need hype.

Robert Ludlum, whose novels have sold 290 million copies (more or less the population of the United States), knew what makes a successful thriller.