I was talking with a couple of friends on goodreads about those books which don't get to be famous. Or not as famous as they deserve, in my mind or in yours. The problem is, I suppose, that the books I love which don't get to be best sellers are probably not the same as the ones you love -otherwise, they would be on the New York Times' list.
I could find hundreds of books I liked a lot you probably don't know, and the opposite for you. I can think of books that had a couple of months of shivers announcing their rising celebrity, to just die in infancy and never make it to be remembered. A few years ago, I bought a load of books at a book sale -I do that regularly, yep. Among them was HARD LANDING, by Lynne Heitmann. I just loved it, while seeing its problems, the totally unbelievable story, the mistakes made by all the characters, the trust the heroine put in her lover who never deserved it and the way dimwits were involved in a complicated scheme much above their level. No matter the total unlikeliness of the plot, I enjoyed the story. It was a debut novel and I expected more to come as I rated the author to be the next Lisa Unger. Well, she wrote a couple more books and stopped I believe around 2010 without ever reaching the hall of fame. Sad but true...

So, to speak about books deserving better, I discovered last year the trilogy written by David Khara, CONSORTIUM, the Bleiberg Project, the Morgenstern Project and the Shiro Project.
Usually, I'm not a great fan of adventure-action. I don't like the violence the authors thrive on. It may get to be so gory it throws me off. With Khara's books, I was able to enjoy the thrill of a high-octane adventure without the feeling of being in a slaughterhouse.
The three books revolve around the character of Eytan Morgenstern who used to be a normal man before experiments done on him by Nazis doctors with Hitler's approval, to create an Ubermensch, a real superman, who would not age nor weaken with time and be almost invincible. According to those those three books, they managed to create a pair of those, a man and a woman who have amazing abilities. Strength, smartness as in street smart as well as school smart, brilliance, appeal, they have everything.
But the invention of the characters would not be enough to make an extraordinary book. Some normal people have to enter the equation to fascinate you, like Jeremy Corbin. A mysterious cartel wants to master and use the secrets of Eytan to conquer the world at any price. A young man is lost in a world he hates and tries to find himself by ending his life if needed. Eytan will help Jeremy find a life worth living and they will struggle against the Consortium.
It is impossible to summarize those books in a page, and I won't try to. It has been said the books are a dream for action/adventure lovers and if you don't like this kind of book usually, they will change your mind and make you love them.
If you have not read them, try them, I'm willing to bet you will love them. Once again, each of the books is a standalone, meaning they may be read in any order. If you begin one, you'll be willing to get th other ones...