Political Conspiracy Thriller

“A gritty FBI Thriller with jaw-dropping twists. King’s portrayal of the convoluted world of cross-border criminality, politics and business feels completely fresh.” — BestThrillers.com A junior official with the Mexican Consulate in Houston is abducted, his $600,000 automobile left abandoned in a pharmacy parking lot. In what initially appears to be a simple case of a wealthy foreign dilettante being held for ransom, FBI Special Agent Pete Cortez is assigned the task of securing the young consular official’s safe return and apprehending his kidnappers. With upwards of 150 foreign...

We have your son. It’s the call that’s every parent’s nightmare. And for CIA analyst Jill Bailey, it’s the call that changes everything. It’s Jill’s job to vet new CIA sources. Like Falcon, who’s been on the recruitment fast track. But before she can get to work, Jill gets the call. Her son has been taken. And to get him back, Jill does something she thought she’d never do.

A photograph is worth a thousand words, but is a photograph worth killing for? Caught on Camera is the story of a thirty-year-old photograph discovered amongst a dead man's belongings. Innocent as the picture looks, it holds a dark secret that someone will stop at nothing to preserve. Following the death of his mysterious tenant, landlord George persuades his friend, journalist Tony Vercoe, to trace the family of the deceased man. Together they discover hidden documents. Among them is a thirty-year-old press cutting, as well as a roll of 35mm negatives plus two black and white photographs. ...

The Skyline Cypher plunges you into the gleaming high-rises of Miami, where power and luxury mask a scheme so vast it threatens to upend the global order. In this pulse-pounding thriller by Terence Middleton, ambitious real estate analyst Eva Alcott stumbles onto an explosive secret hidden within the city’s most prestigious development. Beneath the glitter of penthouse sales and million-dollar deals, she uncovers a dangerous cabal of corrupt politicians, cartel lords, and arms dealers—each one entangled in a hidden deed clause granting them unimaginable influence for generations to come...

An Ice Pick Murderer Is Terrorizing San Francisco San Francisco is reeling from a series of brutal icepick murders, and Cole Sage is distracted when his secretary and sidekick, Hanna, takes in a troubled teenage girl. The girl is on the run, and as it turns out is hiding things Hanna should know. Cole works with Lt. Leonard Chin to find the perpetrator of the savage killings terrorizing the city. As Cole and Hanna try to protect the girl, they find themselves caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse, where every answer leads to more danger. With the body count rising, Cole must navigate a ...

Returning to the Yucatan wasn’t what Hank had in mind when he and Nicole discussed taking time away from their mind-numbing research inside ATLAS headquarters. Nevertheless, the two archaeologists are asked to travel to Chichen Itza and investigate the last thing they were trained for, something a bit over their heads professionally. A murder has been committed, witnessed by one of their trusted contacts. Once they arrive and the whole story revealed, Hank and Nicole quickly understand why they, in particular, were called. A secret has been uncovered, one that Ponce de Leon failed to find...

It's been 17 months since the Bloodsmith butchered his first victim, and Operation Maypole is still no nearer catching him. The media is whipping up a storm, and the top brass are demanding results, but the investigation is sinking fast. Now isn't the time to get distracted with other cases, but Detective Sergeant Lucy McVeigh doesn't have much choice. When Benedict Strachan was just 11, he hunted down and killed a homeless man. No one's ever figured out why Benedict did it, but now, after 16 years, he's back on the streets again.

Michael Shermer presents an overarching review of conspiracy theories—who believes them and why, which ones are real, and what we should do about them. Trust in conspiracy theories, he writes, cuts across gender, age, race, income, education level, occupational status—and even political affiliation. One reason that people believe these conspiracies, Shermer argues, is that enough of them are real that we should be constructively conspiratorial. But Shermer reveals that other factors are also in play: anxiety and a sense of loss of control, as well as certain personality traits.

Unholy conspiracy or scientific sensation?For centuries, the occult society AETERNA has guarded an incredible secret: The Shrine of the Black Flame, an artifact as old as the Earth and as sinister as the apocalypse in the darkest prophecies. Now, the supernatural power of the shrine seems unleashed — with fatal consequences for all life on earth. Interpol investigator Isabella Cassini is on the trail of the secret circle and tries to prevent the worst, while quantum physicist Dr. Daniel Slovak hunts the source of a mysterious burst of neutrinos. Yet, he has no idea that these are the ...

In this gripping best seller, Robert Ludlum spins a web of suspense and high-stakes intrigue as two men who are sworn mortal enemies must cooperate in order to foil a sinister plot to topple the world's governments. Ludlum's recollection of his war buddies gave him the idea for this book. Hear the details in the sample below.

A Neural Implant That Promised to Save Lives—Now It’s Killing Them. Five years after the launch of a groundbreaking neural implant designed to revolutionize healthcare, government agent Eric Snoughden stumbles upon a disturbing trend: a spike in unexplained deaths among low-income recipients. The deeper he digs, the clearer it becomes—this is no accident. Someone is targeting the victims and covering up the truth. With the help of a relentless journalist and unexpected allies from an escort agency, Eric unravels a high-stakes conspiracy woven through corporate greed, political ...

What Burns Hotter, Love or Hate? Cole Sage is caught in a firestorm of chaos when two deadly threats erupt in San Francisco. On one side, a mentally unstable, PTSD-stricken Vietnam veteran launches a series of violent arson attacks targeting the city’s Asian community, leaving destruction and terror in his wake. On the other side, Jesse Monday, a self-proclaimed messiah, amasses a dangerous cult following after his sudden death—as rumors swirl of his miraculous resurrection. As Cole once again works alongside FBI agent Carter Washington to uncover the arsonist’s motives and stop the ...

What if the Black Death of 1348 emerged from the thawing permafrost in a new, dangerous mutation? What if the US biolab at Fort Detrick was compromised and the key to fighting the pandemic fell into the hands of a sinister cartel? If you enjoy the gripping suspense of Dan Brown, the scientific intrigue of Michael Crichton, and the high-stakes action of Tom Clancy, Terminal Warfare is a must-read. When USAF flight crews started to fall ill, professor Anja Thorsdottir discovers an herbal remedy in the melting ice of Greenland as the plague threatens the world. Unknown stalkers menace ...

He’s An Undercover Operative, Called In To Take Down A Criminal Syndicate When undercover operative, Shane Beckett, is contracted by the Carson City Sheriff to investigate a crime family syndicate, and the syndicate’s links to drug cartels and politicians, he is quickly swept up in two murders. To complicate matters further, he falls deeply in love with the woman of his dreams, in the middle of the investigation. ˃˃˃ Assassination, Family Secrets, And The Criminal Underground Just as he comes to realize that The Case is far more complex than he could have imagined, he himself becomes...

After barely avoiding becoming a casualty of his boss’s financial fraud at National Airlines and the break-up of his second marriage, Lonny Jones passes on a promotion to Vice President and relocates to Austin, where he’d attended college twenty years ago, to recharge and figure out his future. By chance, he rents a house owned by a politically active couple and is unwittingly drawn into a down-and-dirty mayoral primary election campaign where the powerful, charming and corrupt mayor uses his office to dispense favors to developers. The challenger is an upstart political novice with an ...

Armageddon Inferno The Third Installment of the Armageddon Trilogy In the remote wilderness near Yellowstone National Park, a storm is brewing — not of nature, but of man’s darkest ambitions. When NYPD Detective Mick O’Shaughnessy and FBI Special Agent Buddy Burger uncover whispers of a secret Chinese research facility, they stumble onto a chilling conspiracy: a plot to trigger the Yellowstone supervolcano and plunge the world into chaos. Behind the facade of geothermal farming and soil research lies a sinister mission led by Fu Dong — a master of deception now armed with ...

A murder at a quantum computing firm leads a hacker and an FBI agent into a race against the clock—before a polarized America reaches its breaking point. In the wake of a controversial Supreme Court decision, a firestorm of civil unrest erupts on both ends of the political spectrum. As Los Angeles grapples with the turmoil, a woman is found murdered inside an office building, mere feet from the most powerful quantum computer ever created. The next day, whitehat hacker Isabella Cray hears from an old flame, unexpectedly in town and acting strange. Before she knows it, Cray’s life is ...

The President of The United States is dead. There is no Vice President to take his place. As the nation slips into a constitutional crisis, a small, secretive group conspires to violently seize power. They have the will. They have someone on the inside. And they have the explosives. Standing in their way is a woman who knows their intentions. Can she stop them in time? If she does, will it matter?

Timely and powerfully thought-provoking, Intention finds best-selling author Tom Abrahams (The Traveler Series) return to his roots with this breathtaking novel that brilliantly unpacks a vast, global conspiracy to alter the balance of power.

Three missions. No oversight. Just bodies. Germany’s enemies don’t follow the rules — and neither does Department 89, the covert military unit that doesn’t officially exist. Led by Major Sophie Decker, a woman known across Europe as judge, jury, and executioner, they strike first and vanish without a trace. In Books 12–14 of this relentless thriller series, Decker goes head-to-head with North Korean operatives, dismantles far-right terror networks, and uncovers a plot that could ignite a war across Europe. These aren’t missions — they’re kill orders. Three full-length spy ...