Comic Thriller

"Matt Drabble is a name that will one day be as widely recognized as Stephen King & Dean Koontz" - READERS FAVORITE He fell from the stars and changed the world. Suddenly there existed a super being much like those that only existed on the pages of comic books, but not everyone took to the newcomer nor what he represented and some would seek to destroy what they perceived as a blasphemer. SOUL were an organisation created by a Cynthia Arrow, a religious zealot overwhelmed with the desire to deal in terror and rid the country of their greatest hero by any means necessary. Driven by her ...

Eleven vigilante justice thrillers. One terminal diagnosis. One man’s final list. Chris Seely is not a cop. He’s not a lawyer. He’s not a hero. He’s a man who has just been handed the kind of diagnosis that changes everything. When the shock wears off, Chris does not make the usual kind of bucket list. No dream vacation. No peaceful farewell tour. No sentimental final act. He makes a list of names. Predators. Liars. Users. Lowlifes. Criminals. People who hurt others and somehow slipped through the cracks. At first, the list is just a private fantasy. A way to blow off steam. A dark ...

Bob Arctor is a dealer of the lethally addictive drug Substance D. Fred is the police agent assigned to tail and eventually bust him. To do so, Fred takes on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor. And since Substance D--which Arctor takes in massive doses--gradually splits the user's...

Joe Brody is just your average Dostoevsky-reading, Harvard-expelled strip-club bouncer who has a highly classified military history and whose best friend from Catholic school happens to be head mafioso Gio Caprisi. FBI agent Donna Zamora, the best shot in her class at Quantico, is a single mother stuck at a desk manning the hotline. Their storylines intersect over a tip from a cokehead that leads to a crackdown on Gio's strip joint in Queens and Joe's arrest - just one piece of a city-wide sweep aimed at flushing out anyone who might have a lead on the most-wanted terrorists....

Brought to you by Penguin. STOP PRESS! The Stranger Times wins the 2023 British Fantasy Award for Best Audio Work! Some comebacks can be murder . . . Stella is enjoying life as an almost student, or at least she is until a man falls from the sky right in front of her, leaving a big old hole in...

*Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden* 'The most exciting development in spy fiction since the Cold War' The Times 'To have been lucky enough to play Smiley in one's career; and now go and play Jackson Lamb in Mick Herron's novels - the...

“You know Slow Horses—now meet the Sheepdogs.” —The Sunday Times (London) Two Misfits. One Mission. Zero Back-Up. When a high-stakes heist goes wrong, an ex-CIA operative and a special operations pilot find themselves in the middle of a game of espionage and survival as they navigate...

"I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~ Satisfied Kindle Reader "FIVE STARS!" ~ Multiple Fans "ALICE CROWLEY IS ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING WRITERS!" ~ Author G. Taylor Cassie Jenkins is a masseuse in Los Angeles who has a client named John who keeps asking her for a date She's attracted to him, only she is nursing a broken heart from a previous relationship so the hesitates to jump on board John's idea. When the President of the US announces a national sexual holiday of free love, to try and boost the American birth rate, Cassie figures what the heck and opens up to John, joining him ...

A delightfully twisty and darkly comic crime thriller, for fans of My Sister, the Serial Killer and How to Kill Your Family 💀 'A fast-paced, tension-building mystery with a shattering finale. Tam Barnett is a name to watch.' Daily Mail I'm obsessed with true crime. All the podcasts, the...

In this exciting prequel to the critically acclaimed Dane Curse, a pair of black capes are found dead on the floor of Wentorf Hall, mere inches away from the world’s largest diamond. Of course the cops think the pair killed each other over the heist. After all, everyone knows that the Vandenberg Coconut is a one size fits all motivation for murder. Everyone, that is, except for Dane Curse. But when the former villain turned PI takes the case he’ll discover that the truth has more sides than a diamond has facets. And in order to get to it Dane will follow a trail that leads through an ...

Victor Vex was supposed to be the world's greatest supervillain. He has the volcano. He has the cape. He has the dramatic laugh. Unfortunately, the superheroes vanished decades ago. Now Victor spends more time arguing with accountants, repairing ageing death rays and trying to recruit competent henchmen than threatening the world. His greatest enemy might just be modern bureaucracy. Everything changes when a simple bank robbery uncovers a forgotten photograph, a mysterious key and a message that should never have existed. The Collection has begun. As old allies, retired villains, forgotten ...

Brought to you by Penguin. Discover Graham Greene’s blackly comic and timely espionage thriller, set amid the vice and squalor of pre-revolutionary Havana. 'Graham Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks...

America stumbles into an election ...brainwashed by China. During an American presidential campaign, a spooky candidate uses mind control to destroy the American economy. Meanwhile in China, a hapless American grad student has just been ditched by his Chinese flame, who takes off for the American West. When the CIA asks our unlucky but intrepid hero to hotfoot it home to investigate the financial collapse, he must overcome feelings of rejection, snide remarks from friends, and assailants who want him dead. He must come home to wake up a nation and bring the malicious malefactors to justice....

Enjoy this compelling spy thriller series with loveable guy and girl next door characters. A madman seizes power in China ...and only America can stop him. In this blockbuster novel of first love and last resorts, the CIA must assemble an unlikely team of young scientists and pilots to infiltrate the Middle Kingdom and take down the ruthless megalomaniac who has set his sights on America. Join forces with America’s next hero as he uses his powers of deduction and iron will to overcome all odds, save his girl, and rescue a grateful nation. Termed “iconoclastic” and “an epic adventure...

“A suspenseful, psychologically gripping story” (Entertainment Weekly) that explores what happens when your past and present collide, from the star of Netflix’s Jessica Jones, AMC’s Orphan Black: Echoes, and author of the novel Retreat. “A phenomenal, haunting debut.”—Gillian Flynn...

Olivia Zack is an aspiring neuroscientist, pharmaceutical consultant, —and murder victim. It will take a post-mortem quest to sort through the mess that led to her death at the hands of a mobster in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn—a death that might have been inadvertently caused by her former best friend, Phoebe Warner. Celebrities, nightclubs, red carpets: Polly’s life as a junior publicist sounds totally glam. Too bad it’s a total sham. Overeducated, underpaid, and utterly disillusioned, she is mired in an early-life crisis. Her father, an old-school psychiatrist, thinks all she needs ...

In “the Trump satire we’ve been waiting for” (The Washington Post), award-winning and bestselling author of Thank You for Smoking delivers a hilarious and whipsmart fake memoir by Herb Nutterman—Donald Trump’s seventh chief of staff—who has written the ultimate tell-all about Trump...

The Plot Thickens: Imagine you're a 32-year-old Master Chief in the U.S. Navy named Walter Koch, and you're not just testing any old diving suit; you're in what's essentially a high-tech, sci-fi wetsuit for Project Seadragon. This suit lets you swim deeper than a submarine's dreams, without the hassle of tanks or the fear of the bends. But, as luck would have it, your test dive goes south faster than a penguin on a ski lift. An explosion sends you rocketing towards the surface, leaving your team in a rather permanent state of "rest." When you wake up, you're not just in the suit; you are ...

After several years in the military, Kirby Jackson just moved back to his coastal hometown to open up his dream coffee shop. But his best friend and co-owner, Ryan, just had to add his own flair: Comic books. And the business isn't off to a good start. On the cusp of telling Ryan the grim news, he finds his friend with a knife in his back. The shop’s mascot, a stubborn dachshund named Gambit, might hold the keys to solving the case. But he ain't talking. His woofs are only for treats...Or are they?

When a highly classified urban operation goes dark, the blueprint for global stability is completely shattered. Broken Blueprint: Zero Protocol is a fast-paced, gritty tactical thriller that plunges listeners into the trenches of a high-stakes conspiracy. Centered on intense combat mechanics, deep emotional stakes, and survival in an unforgiving landscape, the story follows elite operatives fighting to prevent a catastrophic system override. This is a universe where every second counts, trust is a liability, and a single tactical misstep means total annihilation.