Military Thriller Arctic

Arctic Red has been named Military Thriller of the Year for 2025 by BestThrillers Book Awards. The Arctic is no longer frozen—it's on fire and Greenland is the target. In the chilling aftermath of the Sea of Red series, the United States faces its most treacherous enemy yet: a resurgent Russia hell-bent on controlling the Arctic’s strategic frontier. As ice melts, tensions ignite. Lieutenant Commander Jessie “Swagger” Hampton is back in the cockpit of his F-35, now flying combat missions over the world’s newest battlefield. His wife, Lieutenant Commander Sarah “Danger” Freeman...

The Yukon is unforgiving. When a corporate extraction team is sent to recover a lost asset from a crashed plane, they find themselves in a frozen hell. The cold is a living entity, but it's not the only thing hunting them. Stalked by intelligent, bone-white creatures from the ice, their mission becomes a brutal fight for survival. But the monsters outside are nothing compared to the paranoia growing within. As their minds break and their numbers dwindle, the team uncovers a terrifying truth buried in the permafrost—a secret that isn't just a threat to them, but to all of humanity. They ...

Jerry Mitchell, now the commodore of submarine Development Squadron Five, is dismayed when USS Toledo is reported missing in Arctic waters, close to Russian territory. The vessel is captained by his former shipmate and close friend Lenny Berg. Eager to investigate, Jerry convinces the navy to redirect one of his squadron’s boats to find out what happened.

In this sequel to Dale Brown’s New York Times bestselling Arctic Storm Rising, former U.S. Air Force officer Nick Flynn is caught up in a shadow war against allied Russia and Iran—a duo wielding a terrifying new weapon. Nick Flynn is back in action, and he has a new employer—a shadowy...

When Nick Flynn left the US Air Force to join the Quartet Directorate, he did so with the full knowledge that no one could ever know. This covert private force—called Four by its members—promised him the chance to lead his own missions and make his own decisions, though the risks are high. When a former senior CIA executive goes dark, Flynn and his team—including the daring Laura Van Horn—are ready to step in. What begins as a quiet check on his home turns into a firefight against a familiar enemy who is more dangerous than ever.

A Cold War machine buried beneath the Arctic ice is about to decide the future of the world’s energy supply When former MI6 operative Jack Maddox and his partner Lucia Navarro are drawn into a covert mission in the High Arctic, they uncover the Black Atlas—a secret Soviet system designed to control massive methane reserves beneath the seabed. Now a ruthless private operator intends to seize the installation and weaponise it, while Russian commandos and Western intelligence race toward the same frozen target. Deep beneath the ice, Maddox and Navarro must reach the heart of the machine ...

A WEAPON HIDDEN BENEATH THE ICE Far beyond the reach of satellites… beyond the last shipping lanes… deep inside the frozen silence of the Arctic Circle… A weapon is waking up. Buried beneath layers of ice and secrecy, a Russian military installation known only as Severny-12 has been reactivated. Its purpose is as terrifying as it is simple: prepare and launch a next-generation hypersonic missile capable of striking anywhere in the world in minutes. No warning. No defense. No second chance. By the time anyone realizes what’s happening… it will already be too late. A MISSION THAT ...

The war isn’t coming. It’s already here Jack Maddox thought he was done with the shadows, until a buried directive drags him back into a covert war inside Washington DC. As Operation Phoenix resurfaces, he and Lucia Navarro uncover a ruthless conspiracy stretching from intelligence agencies to the highest levels of power. The target isn’t just control - it’s the future of the United States itself. But the battlefield doesn’t stay contained. When a classified mission pulls them into the Arctic, Maddox and Navarro uncover the Black Atlas - a Cold War relic capable of triggering ...

In the Arctic, two American intelligence operatives are kidnapped while investigating Russian submarines - a constant, covert presence beneath the ice caps. In Washington, ex-Marine Charlie Dean and his team at Desk Three trace the abduction back to the Russian mafiya, who have their sights set on the massive reserves of oil that lie thousands of feet below the ocean's floor.

From the #1 bestselling author of The Bourne Identity, an action-packed thriller about a Covert-One operative who uncovers a dangerous secret. On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, researchers discover the wreckage of a mysterious World War II-era aircraft, a discovery that forces the...

USA Today bestselling author Ward Larsen's globe-trotting assassin, David Slaton, returns for another breathless adventure in Assassin's Edge! A U.S. spy plane crashes off the northern coast of Russia at the same time that a Mossad operative is abducted from a street in Kazakhstan. The two...

The sun won't rise for forty days. Neither side can wait that long. December 2045. A thousand Chinese Marines are slowly freezing to death in ships never meant to survive an Arctic winter. Their government has declared the mission a success. Their Admiral knows better. And the men who could rescue them have been ordered to treat them as a threat. As polar night descends on Victoria Strait, a British intelligence officer pieces together what the Americans already know but won't share. A Canadian sergeant prepares her section for a tactical situation she doesn't understand. And deep in the ...

The Cold War Never Truly Ended. For decades the Arctic was believed to be silent. Frozen. Forgotten. But something beneath the ice has just come alive. When a U.S. reconnaissance satellite detects an impossible heat signature buried miles beneath the polar ice shelf, Pentagon analysts make a chilling discovery. Hidden beneath the permafrost lies a Cold War weapons complex long believed to have been dismantled after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Now it is powering up. No one knows who activated it. Not Washington. Not Moscow. Not Beijing. Because the system awakening beneath the Arctic ...

They came to test a route. They stayed because they had no choice. October 2045. A Chinese naval task force enters the Northwest Passage, exercising legal transit rights through waters Canada once claimed as its own. The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) task force consists of a nuclear icebreaker, the Xuelong 3 (雪龙3) - "Snow Dragon 3", a collection of Arctic research vessels, and a last-minute addition: a Type 075 Yushen-class - Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) 40,000-ton amphibious assault ship/helicopter carrier with a thousand Chinese Marines who've spent six months training in the ...

2,600 people. 360 kilometers. January in the Arctic. Tropical gear. The march has begun. Admiral Chen's fleet is dying—reactor failing, hull breached, ice closing in. His only option: order every man, woman, and sailor to walk across the frozen sea to Cambridge Bay. In January. With gear designed for the South China Sea. Lieutenant Zhao Jianfeng walks alone at the vanguard, a robot companion his only partner, finding safe routes across sea ice that could swallow the column whole. Behind him, 2,600 lives depend on every choice he makes. Brigadier-General Fontaine watches the column ...

The ice that saved them is now killing them.When a Chinese naval task force's reactor begins venting radiation across Victoria Strait, Admiral Chen Weiming faces an impossible choice: stay aboard the dying ships and watch his people die slowly, or order 2,600 sailors and marines to walk 400 nautical miles across the Arctic—in December—with tropical gear and dwindling supplies.No rescue is coming. Beijing has gone silent. The Canadians are offering help, but Chen's orders forbid him from accepting it. And somewhere between his fleet and salvation, an isolated platoon has just triggered a...

A gripping science thriller in the Arctic! Mysterious nanoparticles in a Greenland ice core confront biologist Nora Grimm with a fascinating puzzle. At first, she believes the 400,000-year-old ice is contaminated. But then the bizarre crystals suddenly show signs of life. Nora realizes that she has discovered far more than just prehistoric climate records. Also, Exobiologist Robert Greaves is on his way to Greenland to investigate a connection to a similar finding by the Mars rover Curiosity. Is this really an extraterrestrial life form that has been lying slumbering in obscurity since ...

Der Start der neuen Serie von Bestsellerautor Dale Brown, in dem Russland und die USA vor einem nuklearen Krieg stehen. Nach einer gescheiterten Mission wird Nicholas Flynn, Geheimdienstoffizier der Air Force, zu einer abgelegenen Radarstation an der arktischen Grenze Alaskas strafversetzt. Doch im hohen Norden braut sich nicht nur ein mächtiger Blizzard zusammen, plötzlich dringen auch russische Militärflugzeuge in den amerikanischen Luftraum ein. Der Kreml sucht fieberhaft nach einem atomar bewaffneten Tarnbomber, den ihr Testpilot entführt hat.

A frozen fortress. A lethal secret. A ghost from the past. The Daughters of Iron are elite mercenaries for hire, and their latest contract takes them into the heart of a Siberian black site that officially doesn’t exist. Ava, Maggie, and Jess are tasked with Operation Frost Line: extracting a high-value “cognitive specialist” from a facility built on Soviet brutalism and secrets. The payoff is enormous, but the mission requires a high-altitude jump into a sub-zero whiteout where the cold kills faster than the guards. When the team breaches the concrete tomb, Ava realises the asset ...

As USS Teuthis Saturation Dive Team Officer-in-Charge Mac McDowell leads his submarine team laying acoustic arrays under the Arctic ice, they capture an abandoned fully automated Alfa-class Soviet sub. Piloting their prize through the ice pack to the U.S. East Coast, they must evade or confront other Soviet subs trying to recover the sub—or sink it.