Middle East Fiction Thrillers

Kamran Esfahani, a dentist living out a dreary existence in Stockholm, agrees to spy for the Mossad after he’s recruited by Arik Glitzman, the chief of a clandestine unit tasked with running targeted assassinations and sabotage inside Iran. At Glitzman’s direction, Kam returns to his native Tehran and opens a dental practice there, using it as a cover for the Israeli intelligence agency. Kam proves to be a skillful asset, quietly earning money helping Glitzman smuggle weapons, run surveillance, and conduct kidnappings.

What if one impossible decision during a suspenseful mission shattered everything you believed about your past? Set deep within the world of contemporary Israeli espionage, Behind the Trigger is a psychological spy thriller where covert operations collide with buried trauma, and the cost of trust is life or death. Irit is no cliché female protagonist. She’s a Mossad field agent, mother, and wife - trained to complete missions, not confront her past. But when a thrilling assignment sparks an unexpected connection with Noor - the wife of a Syrian missiles engineer - everything changes. Two...

A shocking act of terror brings the Middle East to the point of explosion. As the resulting political conflict threatens to erupt, a young Jewish American lawyer joins the defense team of an arrested but possibly innocent Palestinian. Soon the lawyer's father, a famed criminal attorney, must win the Palestinian's case or risk losing his daughter forever. To do so, he must take into account the tormented history of the Holy Land from every possible angle.

What if your only shot at redemption meant risking your life to uncover one of history’s greatest mysteries - buried deep in enemy territory? Set among the sacred stone walls of modern-day Bethlehem, Operation Bethlehem is a gripping spy thriller fused with the suspense of a rare archeological mystery. Beneath this ancient city, where every step is tracked and every motive is suspect, lies a secret no one dares to find. Daniel, a former Mossad operative haunted by failure and desperate to find his purpose again, goes undercover for a dangerous mission of his own. But he’s not alone. ...

★★★★★ 'Better than James Bond.' ★★★★★ 'I have never ever read such a non-stop 'action' book.' When top CIA operative Sam Baker rescues a kidnapped CNN reporter and her cameraman from the hands of Palestinian terrorists, he uncovers a plan to devastate Israel. Unable to stop the attack in time, Israel is rocked to the core as over 4,000 of its youngest and most vulnerable citizens are slaughtered. Four years later, retired and enjoying a new life, his own family is slaughtered in a bungled attempt on his life. Dealing with his would-be killers, Sam sends a warning to his ...

CIA agent Mitch Rapp battles global terrorism in a high-octane follow-up to the best seller Separation of Power. When a platoon of Navy SEALs, sent on a top secret mission to save an American family kidnapped by Islamic terrorists, is caught in a deadly ambush, Rapp must find out who told the enemy. But a greater threat still lurks. An assassin working closely with the highest powers in the Middle East is bent on igniting war.

Shane Collins, a world-weary CIA spy, is ready to come in from the cold. Stationed in Bahrain off the coast of Saudi Arabia for his final tour, he has little use for his mission—uncovering Iranian support for the insurgency against the monarchy. Then Collins meets Almaisa, a beautiful and enigmatic artist, and his eyes are opened to a side of Bahrain most expats never experience, to questions he never thought to ask.

Miriam is a Saudi princess promised to another, a pawn in a political struggle that could shift the balance of power in the Middle East. Seth is a certified genius with a head full of numbers, a life full of baggage, and an attitude born on the waves of the Pacific. Cultures collide when they find themselves thrown together as fugitives in a high-stakes chase across Southern California. A growing attraction and a search for answers fuel their fight to survive...but with no sleep and a massive manhunt steadily closing in, their chances of surviving any future are razor thin.

On September 17, 2024, 4,500 pagers exploded simultaneously across Lebanon. The casualties were all members of Hezbollah. This operation was not born in a vacuum. After the atrocities of October 7, 2023- the massacre and sexual violence committed by Hamas- and Hezbollah’s immediate entry into the war in support of those crimes, Israel’s Mossad took off the gloves. What followed was more than a military strike. It was a moment that redefined the nature of covert warfare. The Israeli Mossad faced three impossible missions: Transform ordinary pagers into remote-controlled bombs. Design the...

She ran from tyranny. He is trapped into becoming her husband. Sheikha Yasmine Al-Fasih will do anything to escape her father’s arranged marriage to a cruel man twice her age. Her only chance at freedom? Seducing honorable guest Sheikh Jamal Qadir and ensuring he has no choice but to claim her as his wife. Better to endure a marriage built on mistrust than a lifetime bound to a despot. Sheikh Jamal only wants his business negotiations with Sheikh Zameer finished and done. One night, one bed, and he’ll be gone. But when he discovers a stunning blonde beauty waiting beneath his sheets, ...

People resist change. Normal is comfortable. With Labour winning the general election, a new Prime Minister takes centre stage, a man with very different values to the outgoing leader. For him, the military and everything close to them are just his new toys, to be used as and when he wishes. In Whitehall, the new Director of Special Forces is a man who likes his sherbets, who has no personal experience of elite soldiering. For him it’s all about who you know, not what you know. Anything for an easy life. For Alex Green and his young family this all becomes too much, and he resigns his ...

Screams Without Words is a gripping fictionalized narrative inspired by real events that expose the devastating realities of war, the fragility of peace, and the resilience of the human spirit. When West Point graduate Mike Adams is recruited by the CIA after demonstrating exceptional leadership during the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, he is thrust into the heart of the Middle East. Assigned to the CIA station at the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, Mike’s mission takes a dangerous turn as the Israeli-Hamas conflict erupts into brutal warfare. Tasked with rescuing American hostages ...

A militant leader threatening chaos. A covert team racing against time. A city on the edge of war. In war-torn Damascus, Captain Chris “Magic” Kassner leads Night Team—a secretive unit under USSOCOM’s banner. Their mission is to infiltrate a militant stronghold and stop Tariq Al-Mansur, known as the Angel of Death. With Iranian sponsorship and an apocalyptic vision, Tariq’s plans could ignite the Middle East and engulf the world. As the stakes escalate, Magic faces impossible choices between security and sacrifice. With Hezbollah closing in and sniper fire echoing through the ...

Michael Vaux, ex-journalist and occasional MI6 operative, is back. The reluctant hero of The Wayward Spy and Operation Saladin is about to find himself pulled back into the violent world of espionage and counterterrorism. After a high-ranking member of al-Qaeda in the Muslim Maghreb terrorist group expresses a desire to defect, MI6 can't afford to ignore his request. The information he holds could help prevent future terrorist attacks. An envoy is sent from Morocco to negotiate a deal with MI6. But on his return, while under the protection of novice agent Sebastian Micklethwait, the envoy ...

Christopher Buckley's comic thriller takes readers to the Arab land of Matar, where a philandering emir allays his restless wife by allowing her to start a TV network for Arab women. She is joined in this endeavor by a maverick American State Department officer known as Florence, who wants to use the TV network to start a revolution among Islamic women.

She desires the man of her dreams. Can she resist the attention of another? Sheikha Aisha Al Wahed might be the sister to Sheikh Hamid—one of the most renowned and unconventional Sheikhs on the planet—but it doesn’t mean she is cut from the same cloth. She wants what almost every girl wants: to marry the love of her life. That she’s had a crush on Tabari Usamah for so long makes her more determined for him to notice her. So why is Dhamar, one of her brother’s many friends, distracting her beyond all reason? Sheikh Dhamar Qadir desires one thing—Aisha Al Wahed. A pity she is ...

When a highly sophisticated missile guidance device, developed in US, finds itself in the hands of an unscrupulous group of rebels in Afghanistan and were planning to escalate the tension in the region by targeting cities throughout the middle east. The US President was demanding every resource to be used to find these missiles but without success. Back in the middle of the Indian Ocean, a couple of young sailors find themselves caught up in these world events by just being anchored in the wrong place at the wrong time. There world is turned into a living nightmare as they unwittingly ...

He went to the desert to lose himself. Instead, he found her. Freelance photographer Holly Petersen has never shied away from risk, but breaking down in the desert with no one around is a step too far. Until an untamed stranger on a camel appears out of the heat haze, demanding her obedience if she wants to survive. Hamid Al Wahed never wanted to rule his country. But when tragedy thrusts the crown onto his head, he longs to bury it beneath the sand dunes. Escaping into the desert wilderness with nothing but his loyal steed, his liquor, and the illusion of freedom, he stumbles upon a fiery-...

‘The Brotherhood’ is a thrilling new mystery series by acclaimed author Bronwyn Law, which uncovers the ancient secrets buried in the Old City of Jerusalem. Journalist Keren Kane is trying to build a new life in Israel when she finds herself investigating the strange death of a young Palestinian boy in Jerusalem, who is found next to a dumpster with his throat slit. The murder is highly unusual even for a country torn by sectarian violence, but Kane’s investigation is quickly shut down by the police. In the meantime, Kane gets a tip-off that hundreds of young Jewish children are being...

An Israeli government minister is assassinated in the home of his mistress. Days later, a Mossad officer leads his final raid, killing a Hamas leader in his bed and barely escaping with his life. The action moves into the near future, when world leaders, united under the leadership of a visionary female president of the United States, broker a major compromise between Israel and the Palestinian authority. Their hope is to snuff out the violent flashpoint that fuels global terrorism.