Biological Thriller

In the wake of Operation Desert Storm, a defecting Iraqi scientist has revealed Saddam Hussein's horrifying plans for a devastating counter strike against his enemies...and the world.

In the high mountains of Tibet, rumors are spreading. People whisper of an outbreak, of thousands of dead, of bodies pushed into mass graves. It is some strange new disease...a disease, they say, that can kill in minutes. The Chinese government says the rumors aren't true, but no one is allowed in or out of Tibet. At the Pentagon, admiral James Curtiss learns that satellite images prove that a massive genocide is underway. This is no disease. It's a weapons test. Chinese scientists have developed a way to kill based on a person's genetic traits.

Co-author of the best-selling Mrs. Murphy novels, Rita Mae Brown launches a new series with this first mystery featuring Baxter the wirehaired dachshund. When Baxter and his owner, Mags, leave New York for Nevada, they find themselves embroiled in a real head scratcher. First, the local water-pumping station is sabotaged. Then, a murdered man’s bones - dating back to the 1800s - are unearthed in a barn owned by Mags’ great-aunt.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER CELEBRATING THE 20th ANNIVERSARY WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR Wounded in the line of duty, NYPD homicide detective John Corey convalesces in the Long Island township of Southold, home to farmers, fishermen -- and at least one killer. Tom and Judy Gordon, a young...

Deep in the North Ridge Valley, some secrets are better left buried. Steve is a Wilderness Response ranger who has seen it all, but an anonymous tip about illegal poaching leads him into a restricted zone where the rules of nature no longer apply. Lena is a determined wildlife photographer chasing the shot of a lifetime, unaware that she is about to become the prey. When a brutal flash flood traps them in a "dead zone" of magnetic interference and impenetrable timber, they realize they aren't just fighting the elements. A team of ruthless mercenaries is hunting a legend, and they won't ...

An ancient forest is dying from the roots up. Dr. Owen Packard is called to the Cascades to investigate a massive ecological collapse. He expects to find a fungal infection or a toxic soil anomaly. He does not expect to find footprints the size of snowshoes and soil samples that defy earthly biology. Helix Frontier, a shadowy private military corporation, arrives to take over the quarantine zone. They are not there to save the trees. They are hunting an anomaly that guards a doorway to somewhere else. When an unauthorized tactical strike goes wrong, Owen and his lead acoustic researcher ...

A controversial, frightening bio-thriller that blurs the line between truth and fiction, Upon A Pale Horse raises disturbing questions about the man-made origin of nightmare epidemics, and posits a conspiracy so plausible that it will linger long after the novel's shocking conclusion. When young attorney Jeffrey Rutherford's brother is killed in a plane crash minutes after takeoff from JFK, his life is turned upside down - especially when he discovers that his brother's career wasn't what it seemed. Jeffrey's staid existence is upended as he races to unravel a Gordian knot of deceit and ...

In this eagerly awaited follow-up to The Lion's Game, John Corey, former NYPD Homicide detective and special agent for the Anti-Terrorist Task Force, is back. And, unfortunately for Corey, so is Asad Khalil, the notorious Libyan terrorist otherwise known as "The Lion." Last we heard from him...

Perfect for fans of Vince Flynn, Brad Thor, and Michael Crichton A SCIENTIST WITH A DEADLY WEAPON. A WORLD ABOUT TO PAY THE PRICE. STEVE CASE MUST STOP A PANDEMIC BEFORE CIVILIZATION COLLAPSES. Sam Haberman has created the ultimate bioweapon—a genetically engineered virus designed to redress what he sees as injustice in Palestine. But his plan goes catastrophically wrong. The virus doesn't discriminate by religion, politics, or ethnicity. It kills everyone. The field trial in Afghanistan succeeds beyond his darkest imagination. The virus spreads to the West Bank, then Tel Aviv, then Gaza....

Something was buried in the ice. Now it’s awake. Cole Maddox knows the mountains. As a wilderness guide, he respects the cold, the terrain, and the storms. But he has never seen anything like the facility hidden in the deep valley of the Timberline. Hired to escort a team of investors and scientists into the frozen wild, Cole thinks it’s just another high-paying babysitting job. He’s wrong. Inside the compound, a disgraced geneticist has achieved the impossible. He hasn’t just cloned a fossil; he has resurrected an apex predator that evolution tried to erase. A hunter designed for ...

“[Steve Berry] has a genuine feel for the factual gaps that give history its tantalizing air of the unknown.”—The New York Times Book Review After narrowly escaping incineration in a devastating fire that consumes a Danish museum, Cotton Malone—former Justice Department agent turned...

Is there truth to the rumors about the huge man-apes of the Nepalese Himalayas—and are the fabled yetis truly as gentle and enlightened as the local monks claim? Can the creature that pretty Cousin Olivia and her friends glimpsed in Sherwood Forest actually be a unicorn, as described in biblical texts and the work of Galileo? Can the Germanic myth of kobolds—house spirits—and especially the Klaubautermann, which lives onboard ships, hold any truth? Is it really dangerous for one of them to be seen by its ship’s crew? And what really causes earthquakes in remote Iceland?

Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! * #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER CELEBRATING THE 20th ANNIVERSARY WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR Wounded in the line of duty, NYPD homicide detective John Corey convalesces in the Long Island township...

THEY THOUGHT THE WHALE WAS THE ENEMY. IT WAS JUST THE BAIT. Sarah fears the ocean. She is right to be afraid. When a tourist charter in Alaska encounters a massive humpback, the awe quickly turns to terror. The whale is not acting right. It is sick. It is scarred. And it is running from something. A catastrophic collision capsizes the boat, trapping the survivors in a slowly sinking hull. Cold, dark, and running out of time, they must fight to escape the freezing black water. But the whale did not attack them by accident. It was trying to scrape a parasite off its back. Now that parasite is...

The New York Times bestselling author of Elevator Pitch and master of psychological suspense returns with a riveting thriller in which the possible heirs of a dying tech millionaire are mysteriously being eliminated, one by one. “Find You First starts with a bang and ends with an even bigger...

Silent Vector: Rise of the Resistance The virus doesn’t just kill. It recruits. It didn't start with mindless hordes. It started with a quiet reprogramming of the people we trust most. Police chiefs, hospital directors, and government officials—infected and operating with a singular, chilling purpose: to spread the vector before anyone realized the war had already been lost. For five days, the infected look like us. They speak like us. They lead us. Then, the "intellectual phase" ends, and the mindless hunger begins. Sarah Miller saw the pattern when her own supervisor turned. Now, ...

A top nuclear scientist goes mad and takes an innocent family hostage at gunpoint, killing one and causing a massive standoff. A plume of radiation above New York City leads to a warehouse where, it seems, a powerful nuclear bomb was assembled just hours before. Sifting through the evidence...

Read by Award Winning Narrator Daniel Weyman. BOND VS BLOFELD In the aftermath of Operation Thunderball, Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s trail has gone cold―and so has 007’s love for his job. The only thing that can rekindle his passion is Contessa Teresa “Tracy” di Vicenzo, a troubled young...

THEY DIDN'T JUST INVADE. THEY BEGAN TO HARVEST. Ten years ago, the Kharlans arrived. Human ingenuity and nuclear arsenals proved useless against their biological-technological hybrid armor. Major cities fell in days as the invaders turned the entire planet into a buffet—systematically harvesting human bodies for a purpose more terrifying than mere extinction. Lieutenant Carlson is a survivor, a pilot flying a patchwork armada of retrofitted F-16s—relics of a dead world held together by stolen technology and desperate hope. Stationed on the orbiting carrier Forrestal, he spends his mid-...

Your pulse is a homing beacon. Elena Ruiz thought the blizzard was her biggest problem. A seven-hour drive through the Bitterroot Range ends in a white-out nightmare at Heartpine Lodge, an isolated sanctuary where the geography itself has been twisted into a trap. But something is out there in the storm—something that doesn't hunt by sight or scent. It tracks the subsonic vibration of human terror. As a cardiac nurse, Elena understands the rhythm of life better than anyone. When the carnage starts, she realizes the creature isn't just an animal; it’s a biological predator that feeds on ...