"The conspiracy thriller (or paranoid thriller) is a subgenre of thriller fiction. The protagonists of conspiracy thrillers are often journalists or amateur investigators who find themselves (often inadvertently) pulling on a small thread which unravels a vast conspiracy that ultimately goes \"all the way to the top.\" The complexities of historical fact are recast as a morality play in which bad people cause bad events, and good people identify and defeat them."@en .