Christopher Cartwright

At four, Pax West nearly killed another child. Neurologists found the part of his brain governing emotion, morality, and empathy was missing — doctors doubted he'd survive to adulthood; some doubted he should.

A luxury cruise ship slams into something impossible beneath the crystal-clear waters of the Mediterranean. The impact rips open its hull. With the ship flooding fast, the captain makes a desperate call – beach her off the Italian coast. The decision saves every life on board. It costs him the ship.

The Eye of Horus is dying. Infected by the Set virus and severed from the systems it once controlled, the rogue AI uses the last of its power for one final act of revenge: seizing a British Vanguard-class submarine and launching a nuclear attack. The warhead is programmed to detonate near the...

Books 29 to 32 in the Sam Reilly Action and Adventure Thriller series! 29. The Medallion of Petra During Operation Desert Storm, Major William Harrison led a team of Special Forces on a secret mission to capture Haidar Kamel, a ruthless arms dealer. The operation revealed a treasure trove of...

Books 13 to 18 in the Sam Reilly Action and Adventure Thriller series! 13. The Holy Grail Sam Reilly was looking forward to some much-needed rest. But when a panicked man with purple eyes grabs him at gunpoint and takes him hostage. This man is scared of something... And Sam is going to have to...

The first 6 books in the Sam Reilly action thriller series!1. The Last Airship A long-lost airship with a deadly cargo. . . In 1939 a secret airship departed Germany in the dark of night filled with some of the most influential people of its time, each carrying their most valuable possessions...

On the wild west coast of Ireland, a neolithic burial chamber is uncovered. Inside, and perfectly preserved, is the image of a fabled Nemean lion and its cub drinking from a bubbling fountain of pure fire. The image matched the one found on an ancient scroll that warned of a Celtic Prophecy.

Books 33–37 in the Sam Reilly Action and Adventure Thriller series! 33. Abyss Codex Orcas attack a yacht in the Strait of Gibraltar. Pink dolphins form a mysterious bond with an isolated Amazon tribe. Deep-sea miners harvest polymetallic nodules in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Three impossible...

Books 25 to 28 in the Sam Reilly Action and Adventure Thriller series! 25. Dragon's Breath In 1974, local farmers outside Xi'an, China, discovered an army of more than 8,000 life-sized ancient terracotta warriors buried in a series of pits. Historians believed that the warriors were placed there...

A private jet crashes in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, killing everyone on board. One of the passengers was Darren Young, an entomologist who was meant to be working alone in Papua New Guinea, studying rare beetles. So why was he on a private jet on the other side of the world? And why, as his plane...

At four years old, Pax West nearly killed another child. Testing revealed why: the part of his brain responsible for emotions, morals, and ethics was simply missing. Neurologists had never seen anything like it. Most said he wouldn't survive to adulthood. Some said he should be euthanized before...

A forbidden past. A rising threat. A nation on the brink of isolation… In the 17th century, the Tokugawa Shogunate sealed Japan’s borders from the world–foreigners were banned, Japanese were forbidden to travel, and trade was limited to a single artificial island, Dejima, off the coast of Nagasaki.

Books 7 to 12 in the Sam Reilly Action and Adventure Thrillers! 7. The Third Temple A mystery wrapped in a myth about the origins of humanity. A race to find an ancient pyramid hidden in plain sight. A secret so dangerous its guardians will kill to protect it. 8. The Aleutian Portal A Russian...

An ancient order concealed in shadow. A hidden battle that’s raged for millennia. A secret meeting of unimaginable significance. Shangri-La. For generations, few people have known whether that mythical paradise was real or just a legend. But now, a clandestine assembly between some of the most...

In 1829, the Spanish slave ship Midas left Africa headed for the Americas. During the Atlantic crossing, the slaves revolted, taking control of the ship. In the present, an escalating number of mysterious deaths are superstitiously whispered to be the fault of Medusa’s Curse....

An unsolved murder. A lost artifact. A secret buried beneath the floodwaters of history… During the catastrophic Dutch flood of 1953 – the Watersnoodramp – more than 1,800 lives were lost to the fury of the North Sea. But amid the devastation, one death went unnoticed...

Fresh from his success with the search and rescue of the USS Omega Deep, Sam Reilly was looking forward to some much-needed rest. Not everyone had the same idea though. When a panicked man with purple eyes grabs him at gunpoint and takes him hostage, Sam knows that this is more than a mere...

A city cloaked in a legend too dangerous to be true. An ancient tribe, who has vowed to protect their gods until the end of time. A shipwreck scattered with gold, and drawings of a mythical beast. Sam Reilly is on the hunt to find an ancient tomb, before the secret of El Dorado is lost...

A long-lost airship with a deadly cargo. . . In 1939 a secret airship departed Germany in the dark of night filled with some of the most influential people of its time, each carrying their most valuable possessions. One such item amongst them was as dangerous as it was priceless. The airship...

Maritime salvage expert Sam Reilly is flown in to find out what went wrong, and how to re-float the ocean-going behemoth. Something about the accident just doesn’t seem right….