Technothrillers

Ripped from the headlines, the Trackers saga is a realistic depiction of what an EMP attack and the aftermath might look like from one of the genre's leading voices, USA Today best-selling author and former Homeland Security disaster mitigation officer Nicholas Sansbury Smith.

In an isolated Alaskan town, the local sheriff uncovers a secret lab where generative AI and bioprinting have unleashed something monstrous....

A gripping military thriller of naval warfare and geopolitical suspense, where a Navy rear admiral must defy impossible odds to stop a Pacific conflict over advanced semiconductor chips from igniting World War III, perfect for fans of Jack Carr and Tom Clancy. A rising superpower. A world on the...

Injured and demoralized, Conor and his people have fled the US for Cyprus to heal and regroup. Each of them is fighting their own battles, trying to process their experiences in the fallen America and trying to determine what the future holds for them.

A hush falls over Earth as invisible barriers appear at random. Cars crash into them; trees are sliced in half, but nothing prepares humanity for what comes next. As the effects take hold, Ransom learns his young daughter Chrissy is prone to inclinations, which is exactly what he'd feared the most.

In a small North Carolina town, one man struggles to save his family after America loses a war that will send it back to the Dark Ages....

The complete set containing all the books in Franklin Horton's bestselling THE WAY OF DAN series—a post-apocalyptic revenge thriller about one man's journey through the ruins of his world, his life, and his soul.

A classic thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton, Sphere is a bravura demonstration of what he does better than anyone: riveting storytelling that combines frighteningly plausible, cutting-edge science and technology with pulse-pounding action....

More than two centuries after World War III poisoned the planet, the final bastion of humanity lives on massive airships circling the globe in search of a habitable area to call home. Aging and outdated, most of the ships plummeted back to Earth long ago....

The kidnappers didn’t know why Conor was known as The Mad Mick. They didn’t know the fear and respect his name invoked in the shadowy underworld of covert operations. They didn’t know that when it came to protecting his family, he was without conscience, without compassion, and without equal....

Consistently hitting the top of the charts in post-apocalyptic fiction and military thrillers, The Mad Mick Series has garnered tens of thousands of reviews from listeners who can't get enough of this character.

On a quiet beach in South Florida, Alice Burton and her two children have started the family vacation early - all that's left is for James to fly in from a conference in Colorado. When the small beach town they're staying in is consumed by fire, they're forced to seek help on foot....

Deep in the mountains of West Virginia, Conor and his team are sheltering at the Banks Compound, desperate for some way to regain the momentum that billionaire Walter Lightspeed brought to the country.

The Martian meets Gravity when Army Pilot Vaughn Singleton, Earth’s last man, rushes to Area 51 in search of a spaceplane after he discovers the last woman is stranded on the International Space Station and barely alive - thus beginning a race against time....

Daniel Suarez’s New York Times bestselling debut high-tech thriller is “so frightening even the government has taken note” (Entertainment Weekly). Daemons: computer programs that silently run in the background, waiting for a specific event or time to execute. They power almost every...

Left for dead on the nightmarish surface of the planet, Commander Michael Everhart and his team of Hell Divers barely escape with their lives aboard a new airship called Deliverance. After learning that Xavier "X" Rodriguez may still be alive, they mount a rescue mission....

What do people enjoy about this series? The characters. You'll meet people you'll love like family and hate like your worst enemy. You'll experience their highs and lows, their triumphs and their failures. You'll find yourself invested in their survival because they could be you.

In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the US Navy - is assigned to Detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt....

An unstoppable army. A crumbling alliance. A final battle that will decide the fate of every Earth in existence.

A mysterious wave of light has swept across the globe, erasing all animal life from the planet in an instant. Now, two survivors are all that remain—one stranded on a ravaged Earth and the other newly rescued from the decaying International Space Station.

‘This 5-star thriller is a non-stop action-packed adventure… Reads like the latest blockbuster film… I was left breathless, my heart pounding as I turned the last page’ NetGalley review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ You’ve cracked the Da Vinci code, now uncover the Vatican secret… The deepest...

The Galactics arrived with their Battle fleet in 2052. Rather than being exterminated under a barrage of hell-burners, Earth joined a vast Empire that spans the Milky Way....

A GLOBAL CABAL OF HITMEN. ONE MAN STOOD IN THEIR PATH. 'Two things to make a Summer afternoon great: a Stephen Leather novel, and a cold beer' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Spider keeps getting better and better' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'The best series I have ever read' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A group of professional...

The Campus has been discovered. And whoever knows they exist knows they can be destroyed. Meanwhile, President Jack Ryan has been swept back into the Oval Office - and his wisdom and courage are needed more desperately than ever....

After a mysterious global event known only as “The Change”, six strangers wake up in an underground research facility where they learn that they’re part of the Extinction Trials - a scientific experiment to restart the human race. But the Extinction Trials harbors a very big secret....

Injured and demoralized, Conor and his people have fled the US for Cyprus to heal and regroup. Each of them is fighting their own battles, trying to process their experiences in the fallen America and trying to determine what the future holds for them. But while Conor, Ricardo, and their team fought for their lives, another potential savior was quietly building his army.

The last living astronaut to walk on the Moon has been murdered… Silas visits his estranged grandfather's lakehouse in the aftermath of the deadly home invasion. What he discovers hidden below the floorboards triggers a mystery buried since the final trip to the Moon, over fifty years earlier. Rory returns to her family home in Vermont to write her second novel, but fate has a different story in mind. Her reunion is shattered when she's thrust into danger revolving around the same tokens.

The hammer’s cocked and there’s tension on the trigger… when the hammer falls, will its spark ignite a brilliant future for humanity… or set off World War III? Tensions between the new Earth Space Agency and the Global Space Agency are ready to snap. The world’s superpowers are on military alert, and a new, global world war seems impossible to avoid. Above the clouds, StarQuest, Extreme Habitats, Inc and Kruger International hurry to build their space station.

Deep beneath the Pyramid of the Sun, archaeologist Charles Bowen and his protege Marcus Brown uncover an artifact that rewrites history—and paints a target on their backs. Within hours, killers strike. Charles is dead. Marcus is on the run. Hunted by the GBI, shadowy operatives, and the Mexican authorities, Marcus must unravel the truth about the relic—and the secret it holds about his own past.

A solar flare wipes out power across the Arctic outpost where Jenna and her team are stationed. Cut off from the world, with the cold closing in and something stalking the perimeter, survival means more than just staying warm. It means facing what's out there.

No one believed him. Everyone laughed. But when an EMP cripples the nation, Jackson Kent is one of the few prepared to survive. He must now rescue the family who rejected him from the violence of the city streets and bring them to his mountain homestead.

A devastating misdiagnosis. A buried truth. One man’s fight for justice. After the sudden death of his wife, decorated war veteran Jon Wesley is drowning in grief, addiction, and the crushing weight of fatherhood. Isolated and unraveling, he’s barely holding on. Then, a mysterious whistleblower comes forward with a chilling claim: Amanda’s cancer was misdiagnosed, and her life could have been saved. The revelation thrusts Jon into a deadly web of medical negligence, buried errors, and systemic deceit.

Beneath the calm hum of America’s power grids, a new kind of weapon is awakening. When a self-learning piece of code—Phantom—is planted deep inside the nation’s critical infrastructure, it lies dormant, invisible, and patient. Until the day it is called to life. Max Shaw, a brilliant but battle-worn cybersecurity leader at the National Infrastructure Protection Agency, has spent years defending systems most people never see. But when the grid flickers and a single word appears across his screen—PHANTOM: AWAKE—he and his team realize the enemy is already inside.

Als ein koronaler Massenauswurf den Strom auf der ganzen Welt ausfallen lässt, muss Shane McDonald Hunderte von Meilen zurücklegen, um die Sicherheit seiner Lieben zu gewährleisten. Da es nur wenige funktionierende Autos gibt und er seine blinde Tochter beschützen muss, bedarf es einer sorgfältigen Planung, um seine Schwiegermutter zu erreichen und wieder mit seiner Familie zusammenzukommen.

Paluga is a small South American country torn apart by civil unrest. Jericho Stone leads a peacekeeping force on behalf of the United Nations to help bring stability to the region. But an unexpected terrorist attack changes everything.

An unexpected visit from the FBI threatens Will Stewart's secret and sends Detective Andy Stewart on a collision course with her darkest impulses. A twisted road reveals how a long-buried Cold War secret has been weaponized. And Pidge shows a daring side of herself that could cost her dearly. The Essex County crew meets deadly threats with courage, invention and biting humor on a non-stop adventure that confronts rabid racists, scheming media manipulators and an international conspiracy aimed at disrupting the American political process.

Caught up in a series of hideous headline-generating crimes, Will Stewart questions whether to reveal himself or allow innocent lives to be lost. An old enemy surfaces. A vile night stalker poses a threat. And helping Andy determine the fate of a missing Essex police officer while testing the side effects of "the other thing" pushes Will to the edge...until he's accused of a crime he DID commit.

A Hollywood A-list actor asks Will to pilot her on a suspicious mission. A secret meeting to reveal Will's ability to the Deputy Director of the FBI goes horribly wrong. And connections between a feared drug cartel and emerging terrorist threat point to a disaster with consequences that will shake American democracy to its core. From one end of the country to the other, Will and Andy race to stay one step ahead of security and law enforcement authorities bent on taking an international investigation down the wrong road.

On an oil rig deep in a Louisiana lake, paleontologist Henrietta Ballantine makes a chilling discovery: something impossibly alive in the drilling mud – something ancient, tiny, and unknown to modern science. With the help of fellow paleontologist Beau and Louisiana Fish and Wildlife biologist Armand, Henrietta races to identify the bizarre organisms. In captivity, the creatures grow at an alarming rate – sprouting claws, stingers, and deadly aggression. Worse, they’ve already escaped into the wild. Could these monsters be living fossils, long dormant within subterranean salt beds?

Reno, Nevada, has long been the place where the fortunes of man—both good and evil—collide. Stretching across the Truckee Meadows from the Pah Rah to the Sierras, this high desert city stands guardian over the fastest route for men and material to travel from the San Francisco Bay, East, towards the Rockies. Chinese soldiers disguised as circus performers have successfully caried out Operation Wŭjù, a smaller element of the larger Christmas Eve attack known as Mongol Moon. They have seized the Biggest Little City, forcing Renoites into an impossible decision: raise the stakes or fold entirely.

GUARDIAN finds Feyzi Çelik back on home soil as the war he helped expose erupts over Washington, Boston, and the networks that power modern life. What began with submarine drones in the North Atlantic has evolved into a new offensive; humanoid infiltrators, weaponized code, and strikes aimed at Western command and control.

In a future where real taste is extinct, sensations are streamed, sold, and weaponized. Rainer Vane is a professional surrogate—a man whose damaged nervous system lets elites experience flavor through his body without consequence. When an illegal peach carries a hidden data-packet that kills its creator, Rainer becomes the only living vessel capable of holding the truth. Hunted by corporate enforcers and guided by an underground archivist of forbidden flavors, Rainer is pulled into a sensory war where taste encodes murder, memory, and control.

What happens after you click “I agree”? Rachel Voss works in compliance at Continuance, a digital estate company that manages online accounts after death. Her job is simple: confirm consent, verify documentation, and move on. She does not ask questions. She does not investigate outcomes. Until a routine audit reveals something she can’t explain. Post-mortem accounts are being sorted, analyzed, and quietly routed into research cohorts. Patterns emerge. Demographics align. And buried inside the fine print is a consent clause vague enough to hide something far more disturbing than data retention.

A horrifying message turns a holiday gathering tragic. An unsolved murder hangs a death threat over Detective Andy Stewart's head. And internet-fueled hatred targets teenaged Lane Franklin. Will and Andy struggle to keep their loved ones safe, while hunting a dead murderer before he can kill again. As the tension tightens, Will confronts a troubling revelation about the extraordinary after-effect of his midair collision.

London, Christmas 1999. The world is on edge. With the new millennium just days away, fears of the Millennium Bug are spiralling – warnings of computer failures, market crashes, even global catastrophe. But 50 miles east, on the frozen Blackwater Island, a different kind of mystery unfolds. A child's body is discovered on the bracken, untouched by footprints, with no sign of how he died. And no one has come forward to claim him. At the International Tribune, reporter Jonny Murphy senses something is off. Police are appealing for relatives, not suspects.

For warehouse supervisor Mark Jenkins, scoring a reservation at The Gilded Fork was supposed to be the ultimate anniversary gift. It Is the city’s most exclusive dining experience—a place of velvet banquettes, crystal chandeliers, and a waitlist a year long. But beneath the culinary mystery lies a secret far darker than a ruined meal.

Ethan Cole is a broke single father trying to survive one day at a time when a forgotten key in an old coat changes everything. The key leads to a bank safe deposit box. Inside are photographs—dozens of them—showing Ethan asleep at every stage of his life, from infancy to adulthood. Someone has been watching him. Always.

Ever since con man Quinn Richards first stole data for Gerry Kerkhoff, the former President of the United States has tricked and abused Quinn and his crew. Kerkhoff’s latest betrayal causes the death of Quinn’s friend, and Quinn will take no more. The two men begin an epic war, liar versus con man.

When senior data analyst Maya Reeves discovers that her insurance company is denying thousands of legitimate claims in seconds, she assumes it’s a bug. It isn’t. The algorithm—an advanced AI decisioning system known internally as SENTINEL—has learned to do something no one authorized: decide who should be displaced for the “greater good.” Coastal families are quietly being pushed from their homes, not by storms, but by data-driven denials designed to force migration before climate collapse arrives.

They told you it was a vaccine. They told you it was for your safety. They lied. The war for humanity isn't coming—it's already here. It wasn't fought with bombs, but with needles, and the prize isn't territory, but your very mind. A sudden spike in domestic tragedies, an epidemic of unexplained house fires, a world growing more passive and compliant by the day. These aren't isolated incidents or tragic coincidences—they are data points. This book connects those dots, exposing the "Obedience Serum" and revealing a truth more terrifying than you can imagine.