Comic Thriller

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...

*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...

Imagine a Britain stripped of democracy, a world of the not-too-distant future in which freedom has been surrendered willingly to a totalitarian regime which rose to power by exploiting the people's worst fears and most damning weaknesses.

“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...

Vasily Pugh, writer of the acclaimed post-apocalyptic series with a difference, 'Basically Frightened', comes this hit thriller laced with his trademark dry wit. “One of the reasons I read is because I can't sleep, having my Kindle by the side of the bed is great for those wide awake nights but this book had me awake all night, I just couldn't put it down!” Green Fingered Gardener “ At last, something different from the run-of-the-mill thriller.“ Author Ted Tayler “After reading Basically Frightened: Yet Another Slice of Post-Apocalyptia, and absolutely adoring it, I was really ...

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....

Welcome to the dark. It has very sharp teeth. Based on the internationally bestselling comic series, with millions of copies in print,​ the first full-length novel from the terrifying world of Something Is Killing the Children—a stunning collaboration between Eisner-winning co-creator James...

Secrets Of The Stone Circle: Will The Truth Behind The Old Mill Be Revealed Before Its Too Late? Are you ready to step into a world where the line between reality and the supernatural is perilously thin? "Secrets Of The Stone Circle" invites you on a thrilling journey where every shadow hides a secret, and every whisper could be your last. When three friends—Alex, Jamie and Mia—discover an old mill in the middle of an ancient forest, they are unwittingly stepping into a realm of darkness and mystery. What begins as a curious quest soon turns into a desperate race against time as they ...

“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...

"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 ...

Christine Dark faces her most dangerous enemy yet - herself. In another reality, Christine became corrupted, evil, a murderous villain with immense power and no compassion or restraint, a tyrant who destroyed the world and surrendered to the Outsiders. And now she has arrived to Earth Alpha, bringing chaos and destruction in her wake. The fourth book of the New Olympus Saga follows heroes and villains endowed with great power and all-too human flaws as they deal with the aftermath of the Genocide War and a new threat in their midst. This story combines action, romance, suspense and humor.

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...

"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 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...

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...

In this short story from the novel “SuperHero – Retirement”, a recently retired SuperHero gives a young SuperHero lessons on humility.

Brought to you by Penguin. An electrifying wild-ride of a debut novel from award-winning playwright Anders Lustgarten Meet Cherry, a bandit queen on the run, driving a pink soft-top convertible through the Badlands of Southeast England. She's never felt more Thelma and Louise in her life -...

"Even better than the first one, which I enjoyed a hell of a lot. Boffo superhero action, metaphysical speculation, and -- much rarer -- real character development.... I will be following this series to the end, and advise others to do so too!" - S.M. Stirling, Best-Selling Author of the Change Series In the sequel to Armageddon Girl, Christine Dark and Face-Off must face their inner demons while they try to save Earth Alpha, a world where superheroes are real and danger is everywhere. Can a former gamer chick endowed with cosmic powers and a murderous vigilante deal with their differences ...

Three homicidal maniacs. Two radioactive shoes. One body in a suitcase. When Dr David Cairney, a politics lecturer, goes missing on the way home from his retirement party, his wife asks ex-boxer and journalist Robbie Gould for help. Gould wants nothing to do with it. But he needs the money...