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A pulse-pounding thriller about two brothers, billions of dollars, and the heist of a lifetime by the author of the national bestseller The 500. After escaping the corrupt back rooms of Washington, DC, Mike Ford is again playing a dangerous game -- and this time the stakes are even higher...

Danny Cortez is off the grid, hunted by the agency he once called home. When a journalist dies trying to leak a trove of explosive intel—and Danny's own mother is taken—he's forced back into the shadows. What he uncovers is a covert operation buried deep within the intelligence community. A secret directive. A kill list. And a U.S. senator willing to destroy anyone in his way to keep it hidden. As allies vanish and enemies close in, Danny must decide how far he's willing to go—and how much he's willing to lose—to bring the truth to light.

On a quiet Midwestern lake, a violent night leaves one man fighting for his life and exposes a system unprepared for what comes next. Michael Carter survives a brutal home invasion, but survival is only the beginning. As he lies unconscious in the ICU, decisions are made in his name, decisions that will ripple far beyond the hospital walls. When Michael dies days later, the official explanations come quickly. The truth does not. What follows is not a simple whodunit, but a meticulous unraveling of how institutions fail when procedure replaces judgment and authority goes unquestioned.

A ringing phone awakes Dan Lennigin, college student, in the middle of the night, and the caller baffles him with a stream of panicked gibberish. It is a code, meant for someone else’s ears, and it draws Dan inexorably into a tangled international conspiracy. Minutes after the call, an operative for antiterrorist agency Lucifer is killed, and his superiors come for Dan. He is the only one who heard the warning, and now that he knows what is happening, he can’t say no. Ever since his vacationing father was murdered by hijackers, Dan has dreamed about taking revenge on the world’s terrorists. But this threat is no fantasy.

A leaderless, exhausted federal government is pulling out of Texas, leaving nine million survivors of the apocalypse to fend for themselves. In an attempt to fill the void, the Alliance of West Texas prepares to step in. The ruling council establishes five directives; Energy, Agriculture, Transportation, Communications and Security.

Jace trained for years, bringing his skills to the peak of his ability in preparation for receiving his class. From martial arts, to weapons, to even crafting professions. All of it was an attempt to get ahead. But when he received his class and learned he was the only one in the world with it, he was shocked. There was just one problem. It didn't level like other classes. Restrictions were in place to stir him in a direction that went against the norm. Against what the system wanted. Then, he was trapped.

For 155 days, Will Foster has been locked in medical quarantine without his consent. The doctors claim he is infected with a deadly virus, but this is a lie. Encoded in his DNA is a mutation that provides immunity from disease for all who possess it, source code that Vyrogen Pharmaceuticals aims to commercialize as a multi-billion dollar gene therapy. Against all odds, Foster escapes his laboratory prison and steals a virulent strain of bubonic plague as insurance. To help him unravel the mystery inside him, Foster contacts the only person he can trust - a former lover and microbiologist living Vienna - and the two become fugitives.

The Shinar Directive serves as a kingdom intelligence briefing for God's people in the twenty-first century. On the ancient plains of Shinar, an evil was born: The first world king, the prototype transhuman, the ultimate despot, the Son of Perdition--Nimrod. In Babylon, the Son of Perdition devised the Shinar Directive: the enslaving of humanity and the war against the God of Heaven. God's intervention at the Tower of Babel only delayed his hellish plans.

Discredited, dismissed, and alone… and the only one who sees what’s coming. Veteran storm chaser Beck Maddox knows weather better than most—but lately, it’s not making sense. Tornadoes are forming where they shouldn’t. Storms are behaving with eerie precision. The data doesn’t lie, but no one wants to hear the truth. Savannah Reyes didn’t come to West Texas to babysit a rogue storm chaser. Her assignment was simple: monitor Beck, collect data, and keep him from stirring up trouble and exposing something dangerous. As the storms grow deadlier and secrets start unraveling, she ...

After a precision strike exposes a corporate poisoning operation in rural America, a covert team of elite female operatives realizes they’ve uncovered something far larger than a single target. As they dig deeper, they discover a system built on engineered collapse, and that their first victory has already drawn the attention of forces designed to remain invisible. Now, they must decide whether to expose the truth or weaponize it… knowing either choice could start a war they are not yet ready to fight.

When former Navy SEAL Matthew Tucker is hired to track down a missing software engineer in Seattle, he expects a quick paycheck and a quiet return to his off-the-grid life. But what begins as a routine recovery mission spirals into a deadly hunt across the Pacific Northwest. The deeper Tucker digs, the more he realizes the man didn’t vanish—he was erased. His investigation uncovers encrypted files, an untraceable hit squad, and a growing body count. Someone is willing to kill to keep a secret buried, and Tucker just made himself their next target. Haunted by the ghosts of war and ...

What Is a Thought Made Of? It is a surprisingly simple — yet radical — question. If a thought exists, and we continuously experience our thoughts, then it is legitimate to ask: what “substance” are they made of? The voice that speaks in our mind is a thought. The images of dreams, imagined sounds, remembered tastes, ideas, and conceptual abstractions are all thoughts. Yet when we observe a thought carefully, we discover something surprising: it is not made of atoms, nor of particles, nor of electromagnetic fields. It possesses no physical structure. And yet, it exists. This book ...

The deepest parts of the Internet hold the secrets of a world that will never be the same as Homeland Security Presidential Directive 51 overrides every freedom you believed you had when you woke up this morning. A handwritten letter, sent to the FBI unleashes a trail of deceit putting the armed forces of the United States in direct conflict with each other. Discover the power of the 51st Directive through the eyes of FBI agent Erica Brewer as she and Washington D.C. Detective Sam Marco uncovers a secret government conspiracy that turns the United States Constitution into dry ink on ...

When a number of scientists are mysteriously killed on an insignificant scientific outpost on the planet of Loria and no alarm is raised, Commander Rickets of the Galactic Space Arm (GSA) is angered that no one can explain why. Rickets orders Lieutenant Amanda Bostick, along with two armed Guardians, to investigate. All three have faced setbacks in their careers, and time is against them: The GSA is demanding answers within 10 days. But they have no idea what to expect as there are few reports on the planet. 

Peter Novak, one of the world's greatest men, has been kidnapped! Running out of time and hope, Novak's people turn to Paul Janson, legendary covert operative and assassin. Janson is retired, and nothing could lure him back - nothing except Peter Novak, who once saved Janson's life. " Ludlum's best since The Bourne Identity," raves Kirkus Reviews.

The storms have changed. So have the rules. After months of chasing patterns no one else believed in, Beck Maddox and Savannah Reyes find themselves pushed beyond prediction and into survival. What began as an investigation has become something far more dangerous—where trust is scarce, motives are hidden, and every decision carries consequences that can’t be undone. The weather no longer behaves the way it should. Neither do the people watching it. As pressure builds and the skies grow unpredictable, Beck and Savannah are forced to confront a truth neither of them is ready for: some ...

A razor-sharp British thriller about secrecy, power, and the price of knowing too much. Jason Harper, a brilliant but introverted cryptographer, thinks he’s found the perfect role when he’s recruited into a classified Ministry of Defence programme in Corsham. But the project is far more extraordinary—and dangerous—than he imagined. Hidden deep beneath Wiltshire: recovered non-terrestrial craft, sleek, silent, and still humming with alien code. His task? Decipher their language. The oath of secrecy nearly breaks him.

When ruthless assassin Klaus Reiner is hired to kill an American industrialist vacationing in France, he doesn’t count on three tourists getting caught in the crossfire. And he certainly doesn’t count on any trouble from an aging yet dogged investigator by the name of Inspector Paul Mazarelle.

They thought they’d uncovered the truth, but the storms have only just begun. After barely surviving the rogue tornadoes tearing through the plains, storm chaser Beck Maddox and atmospheric scientist Savannah Reyes are determined to expose the weaponized weather conspiracy brewing behind the scenes, but the deeper they dig, the more dangerous the skies become—and someone is making sure the truth stays buried. Each new storm isn’t just stronger, it’s smarter, and it’s targeting the people asking questions. With their allies disappearing and time running out, Beck and Savannah must ...

He survived the first fracture. Now the storm is breaking wide open. In The Kyiv Directive: Fracture, operative Oleksandr Moroz uncovered a conspiracy that nearly tore Ukraine apart. He exposed traitors buried deep in the nation’s political machinery, dismantled a covert network operating under foreign control, and paid for every victory in blood, trust, and pieces of his own soul. But the final moments of that mission left him with a haunting truth: the mastermind was never caught. Now, in the explosive sequel The Kyiv Directive: Black Knight, Moroz is dragged back into the shadows by a ...