Comic Thriller

"Matt Drabble is a name that will one day be as widely recognized as Stephen King & Dean Koontz" - READERS FAVORITE He fell from the stars and changed the world. Suddenly there existed a super being much like those that only existed on the pages of comic books, but not everyone took to the newcomer nor what he represented and some would seek to destroy what they perceived as a blasphemer. SOUL were an organisation created by a Cynthia Arrow, a religious zealot overwhelmed with the desire to deal in terror and rid the country of their greatest hero by any means necessary. Driven by her ...

Eleven vigilante justice thrillers. One terminal diagnosis. One man’s final list. Chris Seely is not a cop. He’s not a lawyer. He’s not a hero. He’s a man who has just been handed the kind of diagnosis that changes everything. When the shock wears off, Chris does not make the usual kind of bucket list. No dream vacation. No peaceful farewell tour. No sentimental final act. He makes a list of names. Predators. Liars. Users. Lowlifes. Criminals. People who hurt others and somehow slipped through the cracks. At first, the list is just a private fantasy. A way to blow off steam. A dark ...

Joe Brody is just your average Dostoevsky-reading, Harvard-expelled strip-club bouncer who has a highly classified military history and whose best friend from Catholic school happens to be head mafioso Gio Caprisi. FBI agent Donna Zamora, the best shot in her class at Quantico, is a single mother stuck at a desk manning the hotline. Their storylines intersect over a tip from a cokehead that leads to a crackdown on Gio's strip joint in Queens and Joe's arrest - just one piece of a city-wide sweep aimed at flushing out anyone who might have a lead on the most-wanted terrorists....

*Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden* 'The most exciting development in spy fiction since the Cold War' The Times 'To have been lucky enough to play Smiley in one's career; and now go and play Jackson Lamb in Mick Herron's novels - the...

Bob Arctor is a dealer of the lethally addictive drug Substance D. Fred is the police agent assigned to tail and eventually bust him. To do so, Fred takes on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor. And since Substance D--which Arctor takes in massive doses--gradually splits the user's...

Brought to you by Penguin. STOP PRESS! The Stranger Times wins the 2023 British Fantasy Award for Best Audio Work! Some comebacks can be murder . . . Stella is enjoying life as an almost student, or at least she is until a man falls from the sky right in front of her, leaving a big old hole in...

“You know Slow Horses—now meet the Sheepdogs.” —The Sunday Times (London) Two Misfits. One Mission. Zero Back-Up. When a high-stakes heist goes wrong, an ex-CIA operative and a special operations pilot find themselves in the middle of a game of espionage and survival as they navigate...

Long before civilization collapsed, Dwayne was ready for it. A former “toy soldier” at FAO Schwarz, he spent years stockpiling supplies and waiting for the world to end. When a massive solar flare finally pulled the plug on civilization, Dwayne turned his beloved toy store into a fortress and assembled a cult of loyal minions—his “adds”—named after the video-game villains and heroes of his childhood. In the drowned ruins of Manhattan, batteries are currency, childhood memories are scripture, and the mysterious Sungunners run a casino out of the Plaza Hotel. As famine and ...

"I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~ Satisfied Kindle Reader "FIVE STARS!" ~ Multiple Fans "ALICE CROWLEY IS ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING WRITERS!" ~ Author G. Taylor Cassie Jenkins is a masseuse in Los Angeles who has a client named John who keeps asking her for a date She's attracted to him, only she is nursing a broken heart from a previous relationship so the hesitates to jump on board John's idea. When the President of the US announces a national sexual holiday of free love, to try and boost the American birth rate, Cassie figures what the heck and opens up to John, joining him ...

The Plot Thickens: Imagine you're a 32-year-old Master Chief in the U.S. Navy named Walter Koch, and you're not just testing any old diving suit; you're in what's essentially a high-tech, sci-fi wetsuit for Project Seadragon. This suit lets you swim deeper than a submarine's dreams, without the hassle of tanks or the fear of the bends. But, as luck would have it, your test dive goes south faster than a penguin on a ski lift. An explosion sends you rocketing towards the surface, leaving your team in a rather permanent state of "rest." When you wake up, you're not just in the suit; you are ...

A delightfully twisty and darkly comic crime thriller, for fans of My Sister, the Serial Killer and How to Kill Your Family 💀 'A fast-paced, tension-building mystery with a shattering finale. Tam Barnett is a name to watch.' Daily Mail I'm obsessed with true crime. All the podcasts, the...

Brought to you by Penguin. Discover Graham Greene’s blackly comic and timely espionage thriller, set amid the vice and squalor of pre-revolutionary Havana. 'Graham Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks...

The resistance is one target away from exposing the kill-code hidden inside every HealthSync implant. Only one man can stop them: Mark Splendaberg, billionaire CEO of NeuroLink Dynamics—and the reclusive genius who wrote the software that’s murdering millions. Their weapon: Phoebe Chandler—gamer-girl escort with a body made for sin and a mind sharp enough to hack a man’s soul while she’s riding him raw. Her cover: a purple-clad Catwoman selling the rarest comic in the world at Comic-Con. Her mission: lure the Batman-obsessed billionaire into a private suite, make him come so hard ...

America stumbles into an election ...brainwashed by China. During an American presidential campaign, a spooky candidate uses mind control to destroy the American economy. Meanwhile in China, a hapless American grad student has just been ditched by his Chinese flame, who takes off for the American West. When the CIA asks our unlucky but intrepid hero to hotfoot it home to investigate the financial collapse, he must overcome feelings of rejection, snide remarks from friends, and assailants who want him dead. He must come home to wake up a nation and bring the malicious malefactors to justice....

“A suspenseful, psychologically gripping story” (Entertainment Weekly) that explores what happens when your past and present collide, from the star of Netflix’s Jessica Jones, AMC’s Orphan Black: Echoes, and author of the novel Retreat. “A phenomenal, haunting debut.”—Gillian Flynn...

In “the Trump satire we’ve been waiting for” (The Washington Post), award-winning and bestselling author of Thank You for Smoking delivers a hilarious and whipsmart fake memoir by Herb Nutterman—Donald Trump’s seventh chief of staff—who has written the ultimate tell-all about Trump...

John Dies at the End is a genre-bending, humorous account of two college drop-outs inadvertently charged with saving their small town—and the world—from a host of supernatural and paranormal invasions. Now a Major Motion Picture. "[Pargin] is like a mash-up of Douglas Adams and Stephen King...

Olivia Zack is an aspiring neuroscientist, pharmaceutical consultant, —and murder victim. It will take a post-mortem quest to sort through the mess that led to her death at the hands of a mobster in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn—a death that might have been inadvertently caused by her former best friend, Phoebe Warner. Celebrities, nightclubs, red carpets: Polly’s life as a junior publicist sounds totally glam. Too bad it’s a total sham. Overeducated, underpaid, and utterly disillusioned, she is mired in an early-life crisis. Her father, an old-school psychiatrist, thinks all she needs ...

THE ABSURD CRIME FICTION PARODY BY FICTIONAL AUTHOR 'MARTIN FISHBACK' - AS SEEN ON BBC TWO 'What's better than a good crime novel? I'll tell you - a spoof crime novel, by the absurdly funny and clever Fergus Craig' MIRANDA HART 'We all need more laughs like this' AISLING BEA Exeter: a city in...

'A fiendishly clever, totally moreish read with oodles of character and a hefty helping of sharp humour. A five-star whodunnit that kept me hooked right to the brilliant ending' - Gytha Lodge 'Another great and clever book from Jo Jakeman. I struggled to put this down. I was completely hooked...