Biological Thrillers

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.

Obedience was their first mistake. Twenty-two-year-old Lilah is the perfect picture of compliance. Locked behind the towering iron walls of the Republic of Ophir, she lowers her gaze, wears her coarse grey shroud, and dutifully drinks the metallic Draft of Serenity every morning. In this oppressive patriarchal dystopia, the toxic elixir acts as a chemical lobotomy, trapping the women in a smiling, dead-eyed fog of absolute submission. To High Patriarch Gideon, Lilah is his compliant, voiceless "Blessed Miracle." He has no idea what is violently waking up inside her. The daily poison was ...

#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...

The USA TODAY bestselling novel of terror from “one of the hottest horror authors on the planet” (Paste) and writer of the #HorrorBookTok sensation The Troop! On a remote island in the Canadian wilderness, five elderly volunteers from different walks of life are given a tantalizing offer: to...

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 ...

The cure is gone. In a flash of blue-white light, the physical vaccine is incinerated, leaving Captain Kane Rooker and Dr. Mira Valen in the ruins of a global hope. But the data remains the ultimate weapon. As the final traitors are brought to trial and the world heals in her wake, the ultimate tactical challenge begins: learning how to be human again. The war is won. The mission is terminated. Now, Kane must find her way home through a world that no longer needs a soldier.

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 ...

Dark Matter meets HBO’s “The Last of Us” in this apocalyptic tale of humanity’s fight against a quickly spreading bacterial infection that turns people into possessed followers of the mysterious “Collective.” Olivia Scott once had a strange ability: she could glimpse echoes of high-emotion events that had taken place nearby. As a child, those visions terrified her. Now, these long-forgotten gifts might be the only thing standing between survival and annihilation.

The Blackwater Ridge trail feels safe. It is managed and predictable. A flat tire changes everything. Sophie Moran and her father find themselves stranded as daylight fades. They are not alone in the trees. Something is moving through the undergrowth. A local outbreak has breached the containment zone. The animals are acting under new instructions. Their movements are mechanical. Their aggression is absolute. Henry Hale and his family are also trapped on the mountain. They barricade themselves inside an old ranger station. They must work together to survive the night. The threat outside is ...

The flood was only the first catastrophe. A sudden surge of violent currents has wiped out the roads and drowned the communications of an exclusive African wildlife camp. Nine guests and six staff are left stranded on a rapidly shrinking ridge. Their vehicles are useless. Their safe haven is gone. The rising river has brought something with it. A massive hyper territorial bull has claimed the flooded tributary blocking their only path to salvation. Statistically the most lethal beast on the continent this three ton juggernaut is not hunting for sport. It is fiercely defending its domain and...

Winter 1862. The Civil War has dragged on longer than anyone anticipated. Some in the Confederacy have proposed desperate measures to end the war, even embracing a plot to destroy the Union with a deadly epidemic. Fearing that the actions of Southern radicals could jeopardize Europe's acceptance of the Confederacy, the Confederate Secret Service sends an agent to stop the madman who plans to unleash Rebel Fever in Washington. Not all the enemies wear gray, and nothing less is at stake than the lives of thousands and the future of a nation. Based on an actual incident, this historical ...

It isn't a disease. It's an evolution. When a pristine cave system yields an ancient, predatory pathogen, Captain Kane Rooker and Dr. Mira Valen are sent in to contain the impossible. But the "T-800 of viruses" doesn't just kill—it rewrites biology in the dark. As the Phoenix Protocol incinerates everything they know, Rooker faces a final, brutal choice: die in the ashes of a military cover-up, or board the unmarked gunship of a corporate predator. Welcome to the Crimson Quarantine.

There is an invisible weapon among us. By the time you know you are a victim, it has turned you into a killer. A compelling, fast-paced, ticking clock non-fiction thriller from the author of the bestselling Nuclear War: A Scenario. A lab accident, a bio-attack, a global pandemic, and the...

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 ...

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...

From New York Times Bestselling author (creator of the Netflix series V Wars), Jonathan Maberry comes the first in a brand new series featuring Joe Ledger and Rogue Team International. A small island off the coast of Korea is torn apart by a bioweapon that drives everyone—men, women, and...

One ship. One cure. Three factions ready to burn the world for it. As the *Aeterna Ascendant* founders, Captain Kane Rooker fights through a landscape of chemical fire and electrical storms to protect the master batch. But with the arrival of the Aegis International Task Force, the standoff turns into a bloodbath. In the humid dark of the engine room, Rooker must decide if the cure is worth the lives of the people who helped her build it. The time for protocols is over. The time for tactical reality has arrived.

Security is a cage. Captain Kane Rooker and Dr. Mira Valen are now assets of Aeterna Pharmaceuticals, held in a high-tech purgatory aboard the *Aeterna Ascendant*. But when Colonel Lancaster’s manhunt breaches the hull, the ship becomes a vertical tomb. Trapped in a hermetically sealed BSL-4 corridor, Rooker must negotiate a lethal three-way standoff where the air itself is a weapon. In the box within a box, the mission isn't rescuing the world—it's surviving the humans who want to own it.

“[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...

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 ...