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When a breakthrough energy source triggers earthquakes and tectonic disasters, Kurt Austin and the NUMA team race to stop catastrophe.
Zero Hour
Men's Fiction · Thriller · Action Thriller · Suspense
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When a breakthrough energy source triggers earthquakes and tectonic disasters, Kurt Austin and the NUMA team race to stop catastrophe. With deadly machines hidden deep underground and beneath the sea, time is running out to prevent global destruction. A high octane techno thriller from Clive Cussler and Graham Brown in the bestselling NUMA Files series.
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Clive Cussler, author of the bestselling Dirk Pitt series, and his co-author, Graham Brown, send hero Kurt Austin into the heart of the storm in the action-packed NUMA Files series.
A new energy source holds the promise to change the world. If it doesn't kill it first.
It's called zero point energy - a state of energy contained in all matter everywhere, and all but unlimited. Nobody has ever found a way to tap into it, however . . . until one scientist does.
The problem is, his machines also cause great earthquakes, even fissures in tectonic plates. One machine is buried deep underground; the other submerged in a vast ocean trench. If Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala and the rest of the NUMA team aren't able to find and destroy them - and soon - the world will be on the threshold of a new era of catastrophe and unchecked volcanism.
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Former cop Matt Stromsoe believes his past is settled after the man who killed his family is imprisoned.
Storm Runners
Thriller · Action Thriller
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Former cop Matt Stromsoe believes his past is settled after the man who killed his family is imprisoned. A protection job shatters that illusion when a stalking case leads back to old betrayals and unresolved vengeance. This emotionally driven crime thriller holds 4.3 stars on Amazon and over 1,400 Goodreads ratings.
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"Tasty tension . . . a psychologically sharp crime thriller" from the Edgar Award-winning, New York Times–bestselling author of Desperation Reef (Entertainment Weekly).
Matt Stromsoe has come a long way since his wife and son were killed in an explosion meant for him. Wounded severely in both body and spirit, Stromsoe gave up the last thing that held any meaning for him—his job on the police force—and proceeded to hit rock bottom, hard.
That was a lifetime ago, and finally the spiral of personal destruction and despair seems to have come to an end. The man responsible for the murders—Stromsoe's best friend from childhood and his wife's old lover—is behind bars and Stromsoe has put the past behind him, rescued from the abyss by a former colleague who offers him a job at his private security firm. Stromsoe's first assignment is to protect local television personality Frankie Hatfield from a stalker. But the further Stromsoe is drawn into this case, the more he finds that the net of intrigue is wide and ultimately leads back to the man who killed his family. As events conspire against him, Stromsoe learns that prison is no safeguard against revenge.
T. Jefferson Parker has been hailed as belonging "in the first rank of American crime novelists" (The Washington Post Book World) and praised for "some of the finest writing you'll ever read" (Chicago Sun-Times). Superbly crafted, emotionally complex, and filled with heart-stopping action, Storm Runners proves why the novels of T. Jefferson Parker are impossible to resist.
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After winning a mysterious medallion in revolutionary Paris, American expatriate Ethan Gage is framed for murder and forced into Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign.
Napoleon’s Pyramids
Thriller · Mystery · Action Thriller · Suspense
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After winning a mysterious medallion in revolutionary Paris, American expatriate Ethan Gage is framed for murder and forced into Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign. What begins as an escape becomes a dangerous hunt for ancient truths hidden beneath the pyramids. This historical thriller blends swashbuckling adventure with real history, earning a starred Publishers Weekly review and 4.1 stars on Amazon.
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An American ex-pat attempts to solve a 6,000-year-old riddle with a mysterious medallion won in a card game in this swashbuckling historical thriller.
What mystical secrets lie beneath the Great Pyramids?
The world changes for Ethan Gage—one-time assistant to the renowned Ben Franklin—on a night in post-revolutionary Paris, when he wins a mysterious medallion in a card game. Framed soon after for the murder of a prostitute and facing the grim prospect of either prison or death, the young expatriate American barely escapes France with his life—choosing instead to accompany the new emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte, on his glorious mission to conquer Egypt. With Lord Nelson's fleet following close behind, Gage sets out on the adventure of a lifetime. And in a land of ancient wonder and mystery, with the help of a beautiful Macedonian slave, he will come to realize that the unusual prize he won at the gaming table may be the key to solving one of history's greatest and most perilous riddles: who built the Great Pyramids . . . and why?
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A rare Isaac Newton manuscript pulls historian Trina Piper into a deadly conspiracy where science, alchemy, and murder collide.
The Newton Cipher
Mystery · Thriller · Action Thriller · Historical Thriller
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A rare Isaac Newton manuscript pulls historian Trina Piper into a deadly conspiracy where science, alchemy, and murder collide. As a secret Order closes in, she must decode a three hundred year old cipher before history repeats itself in blood. This fast paced historical thriller holds 4.5 stars on Amazon and Goodreads.
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Isaac Newton kept a secret so dark, he took it to the grave. Now his secret is out… and people are dying.
Historian Trina Piper is called to the British Library to authenticate a manuscript that could change history—a document believed to have been penned by the legendary Isaac Newton. As she dives deeper into the text, the body count rises as an ancient threat plagues London once more.
When a mysterious scholar appears, determined to take the manuscript for himself, Trina considers it a minor annoyance… until she discovers the truth: he’s part of a shadowy Order bent on reviving forgotten magic for sinister purposes.
And now Trina is forced to confront questions her academic training can’t even fathom: Can science and magic coexist? Should they even try?
With the help of a handsome and resourceful Interpol agent, Trina must navigate a treacherous web of ancient secrets and deadly conspiracies, taking her from the fog-shrouded alleys of Westminster to the hallowed halls of Cambridge University. Buried within the pages of Newton’s cryptic work is the answer she seeks—if she can decipher its three-hundred year old message in time.
As Big Ben ticks down, Trina must reconcile two seemingly contradictory facts: not only was Sir Isaac Newton first among modern scientists, he was also the last of the medieval alchemists…
And his long-buried secret could spell the end for them all.
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A whispered command drives good people to suicide, and Jane Hawk knows it is no accident.
The Whispering Room
Thriller · Action Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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A whispered command drives good people to suicide, and Jane Hawk knows it is no accident. As she hunts a powerful conspiracy manipulating human minds, she goes rogue to stop a technological nightmare. Driven by grief and fear for her son, Jane becomes a relentless force. A New York Times bestselling thriller with 4.6 stars on Amazon and over 21,000 Goodreads ratings.
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Deep beneath the Ural Mountains, a Cold War era city hides an ecosystem of predators evolved in total isolation.
Pandemonium
Thriller · Action Thriller
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Deep beneath the Ural Mountains, a Cold War era city hides an ecosystem of predators evolved in total isolation. When scientists Nell and Geoffrey Binswanger are lured underground, they face creatures from their past and far deadlier threats rising toward the surface. A high-stakes science thriller praised for its imagination. 4.3 stars on Amazon.
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Some men survive by disappearing, but staying dead stops being an option when revenge and desire point to the same woman.
Claim
Dark Romance · Romance · Thriller · Action Thriller · Romantic Suspense
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Some men survive by disappearing, but staying dead stops being an option when revenge and desire point to the same woman. In Claim, a scarred enforcer steps out from behind the mask to protect the woman tied to his past and confront the father who nearly destroyed them both. This dark mafia romance leans hard into obsession, vengeance, and a love fierce enough to survive brutality.
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Claim is a dark mafia romance, the explosive final part to the Beneath The Secrets Series. Each book can be read as a standalone in this interconnected series.
You can’t kill a dead man twice.
I’ve hidden behind a mask for long enough. Six years to be exact.
My scars are the agonizing reminder of the failures of my past. They represent the evil that lies beneath them.
I’ve always been the one in charge, but now I’m a ghost.
And there are benefits to that… I can take what I want, or who I want.
Starting with her.
The woman whose past crosses with my own.
I’ve been her secret protector, now I must save her from the man who almost destroyed me.
My father.
But the woman I’m rescuing is no damsel in distress. She was made to raise hell and take no prisoners.
The moment she falls from that window in her bid for escape, I know she is going to be the death of me.
And what a beautiful way to go…
It was written in the stars long before we met that she will become my wife.
She is mine to claim, to love, and to protect against the cruel world that we live in.
Even when she sees my demons, she wants to dance in the rain with them.
She dives into the depths of my soul and captures my heart and in return, she gives me a future, something I never thought possible.
She is my iskorka, my spark, the one that I need to burn the world down to get my revenge.
They can all try their hardest to tear us apart, but her love for me is just as ferocious as mine for her.
I’m prepared to risk it all, down to my last breath.
I just hope this time, I come out alive to prove to her I am a monster worthy of her love.
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A discovery buried beneath ancient ruins challenges everything history claims to know.
The Cosmos Keys
Thriller · Action Thriller · Historical Thriller
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A discovery buried beneath ancient ruins challenges everything history claims to know. The Cosmos Keys follows archaeologist David Birch and historian Eleni Lillakis as an impossible artifact pulls them into a global race to uncover a machine tied to prophecy, power, and erased knowledge. This is a high-concept archaeological thriller driven by ancient technology, modern conspiracies, and the danger of rewriting the future.
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Buried secrets. Ancient technology. A race against time.
Deep beneath the ruins of Turkey’s underground city of Derinkuyu, archaeologist David Birch makes a discovery that defies history—a bronze device covered in Greek inscriptions, its mechanisms impossibly advanced for its time. The artifact shouldn’t exist. And yet, its intricate design suggests a terrifying truth: someone in the distant past understood the future.
Desperate for answers, David seeks out Eleni Lillakis, a brilliant historian of ancient technology. As they decipher the artifact’s origins, they stumble upon an astonishing legend—the Michaní Peproménou, the Destiny Machine. A device so powerful it was hidden from the world, tied to the secrets of the gods, and capable of glimpsing what’s to come.
But they are not the only ones searching. A secretive cabal, willing to kill to keep the machine’s secrets buried, is closing in. From the shadowed ruins of Athens to the tunnels beneath Nottingham, from hidden crypts to modern-day power struggles, David and Eleni must unlock the truth before the machine falls into the wrong hands. Because if the legends are true, the artifact does more than reveal the future. It can change it.
A Must-Read for Fans of Archaeological Mysteries and Ancient Secrets
The Cosmos Keys is an electrifying archaeological thriller that blends real historical mysteries with pulse-pounding suspense. Fans of The Da Vinci Code, Indiana Jones, and Steve Berry will be swept away by this globe-spanning adventure, where mythology, science, and danger collide in a battle for humanity’s fate.
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Raised as orphans and trained as assassins by the man they believed was a father, two brothers become targets when he orders their deaths.
The Brotherhood of the Rose
Thriller · Action Thriller · Spy Thriller
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Raised as orphans and trained as assassins by the man they believed was a father, two brothers become targets when he orders their deaths. Their search for answers drives them through a maze of betrayal, covert history, and deadly pursuit. A landmark thriller, The Brotherhood of the Rose delivers fierce tension and nonstop action.
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As boys, they were orphans who learned to trust the mysterious man who visited with candy and gentle promises. As young men, they became the perfect weapons he shaped them to be. Now, without warning or explanation, the handler they once loved as a father has marked them for death, unleashing a hunt that spans continents and decades of covert history.
Torn between loyalty and survival, the brothers follow a trail of betrayal through the darkest corridors of espionage, where every truth is suspect and every ally may be a trap. Their only chance lies in deciphering why they were created, why they are being erased, and who benefits from the blood being spilled.
A groundbreaking classic, The Brotherhood of the Rose blends authentic spycraft with relentless action, redefining the modern thriller.
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Jim Courtney’s privileged life changes when he rescues Louisa Leuven, an orphaned prisoner who survives a wreck off the Cape.
Blue Horizon
Thriller · Action Thriller
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Jim Courtney’s privileged life changes when he rescues Louisa Leuven, an orphaned prisoner who survives a wreck off the Cape. Their escape drives them deep into the African interior as Dutch forces hunt them with growing determination. With 4.6 stars on Amazon and more than 10,000 Goodreads ratings, this installment brings the Courtney saga to a dramatic frontier.
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In the Dutch-ruled colonies of South Africa, Jim Courtney lives under the protection of his family’s trading empire. That safety vanishes when he crosses paths with Louisa Leuven, a young woman who survived the plague only to be imprisoned and transported across the sea. After a violent storm wrecks her prison ship, Jim becomes her sole chance at freedom.
Their flight into the African interior thrusts them into a world of shifting loyalties and relentless pursuit. Dutch forces want Louisa returned to captivity and Jim punished for helping her. The land around them offers both sanctuary and peril, forcing them to depend on each other as danger closes in.
With 4.6 stars on Amazon, more than 10,000 Goodreads ratings, and Wilbur Smith’s renowned legacy, this Courtney adventure delivers sweeping landscapes and high-stakes survival.
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When terrorists kidnap the family of famed anchorman Crawford Sloane, the veteran reporter becomes the story he once covered.
The Evening News
Mystery · Action Thriller · Political Thriller · Suspense
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When terrorists kidnap the family of famed anchorman Crawford Sloane, the veteran reporter becomes the story he once covered. As he hunts the men who shattered his life, the line between journalist and avenger disappears. The Evening News holds 4.5 stars on Amazon and 4.0 on Goodreads, a tense, human thriller from Arthur Hailey.
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Crawford Sloane has spent his career chasing chaos from behind the camera. A respected network anchorman and former war correspondent, he thrives on crisis, reporting breaking stories with calm precision. But when terrorism hits home, the story turns deadly personal.
His wife and child are abducted by radicals who see him as the perfect symbol of American influence. With the world watching, Sloane steps out from the safety of the newsroom and into the heart of danger, determined to bring his family back, no matter the cost.
The Evening News holds 4.5 stars on Amazon and 4.0 on Goodreads. From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author Arthur Hailey, this gripping thriller exposes the ruthless world behind television news and the terrifying price of fame.
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Frank Kane, a war-torn veteran living in solitude, is dragged back into darkness when his niece is kidnapped.
The Unwanted
Thriller · Action Thriller
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Frank Kane, a war-torn veteran living in solitude, is dragged back into darkness when his niece is kidnapped. What follows is a brutal reckoning as he hunts those responsible, guided only by his own code of justice. The Unwanted has 4.4 stars on Amazon and Goodreads, a gripping vigilante thriller of vengeance and family.
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Frank Kane was built for war and broken by it. Scarred, silent, and content to be forgotten, he spends his days repairing a ruined lighthouse on a desolate coast. The solitude suits him, until his niece is taken. The men who kidnapped her think he is just an old soldier. They are wrong.
To save her, Frank resurrects the instincts he buried long ago. With the precision of a sniper and the ruthlessness of a ghost, he hunts those who wronged his family, leaving no law or conscience to hold him back. But his path to vengeance may pit him against his own brother, a man of money and power.
The Unwanted holds 4.4 stars on Amazon and Goodreads, a relentless vigilante thriller that strikes hard and never lets go.
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