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Arthur C. Clarke's A Fall of Moondust (1961), the closest he came to writing a sci-fi thriller. And it's a pretty decent one. The dust cruiser Selene takes tourists on jaunts across the the largest of the lunar dust seas, the Sea of Thirst.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2017/05/arthur-c-clarkes-fall-of-moondust.html
@d4doome Earthlight would fall into that thriller bucket. Spies, counterspies, interplanetary war and more fun and games.
And for old school sf fans like me, the battle scene near the end is no less than Arthur C. Clarke channeling his inner E. E. "Doc" Smith.
Ha! Turns out I was right. From Earthlight's Wikipedia article:
The space battle in Earthlight is the only time Clarke wrote such a scene, and it was intended as a specific homage to the attack on the Mardonalian fortress in chapter seven of E. E. Smith's Skylark Three. The scene where the crew of the Acheron have to cross to the Pegasus without space suits was inspired by Stanley G. Weinbaum's "The Red Peri".