As a staple of airport newsstands and dads’ birthday gifts, thrillers
are wildly popular. With $728.2 million in American book sales, crime
and mystery books are second only to romance and erotica, and, when
lumped in with mysteries, “50 percent of respondents in a recent [Book
Ad Report] survey stated that mystery/thriller books were their favorite
genre of e-books.” Thriller authors tend to be prolific, with many
writing a book a year, and cultivate loyal audiences that will read
most, if not all, their books, exposing readers to a frame of thinking
over and over. These novels tend toward conservatism but are not
exclusively reactionary; nonetheless, popular conservative hosts like
Glenn Beck—who has dabbled in writing thrillers himself—and Hugh Hewitt
have used their platforms to heavily promote reactionary conservative
thrillers that reinforce their own worldview. Thrillers are usually fun
adventure romps but, read uncritically, they also have the potential to
influence how readers view real-life foreign policy and national
security issues.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/12/the-politics-of-thrillers
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