Emergency Thrillers

Follow Dr. Jim McCray through a single twelve-hour night shift working in the emergency room of a small Midwestern hospital. The fast-paced writing chronicles Dr. McCray’s experience with wit and candor as he manages a series of typical but poignant patient interactions. The book dives deeply into the practice of modern emergency medicine with detailed descriptions of medical care and procedures. It is based on the author’s real-life experiences as a young resident physician.

Dennis Block is reinventing his life. Again. Magic was not something he ever expected, but now he has it, it’s just something new to make a living at. At least now it’s stable, even if sometimes whimsical in what happens. The League of Worlds is slowly adapting to mages being among them, and mage services augmenting traditional ones. Out in Ralnor space, where a civil war still rages, they know the value of a good mage being there. And colonization is expanding rapidly in the Orion Cluster Protectorate, various places in Ralnor space, and on the two Terran colonies. It seems to be a ...

The ground didn’t just shake. It opened up. At 5:17 P.M., the city of Los Angeles is transformed into a landscape of pulverized concrete and twisted steel. Daniel Alvarez, a structural inspector who knows exactly how fragile the world really is, finds himself trapped on a collapsing freeway. His estranged wife, Marisol, is stranded in a high-rise with coworkers who are panicking as dust fills the air. Their children, Mateo and Sofia, are scattered across a city that is actively falling apart. They have six hours before the predicted aftershock—a massive seismic event that will level ...

"Narrator Billie Fulford-Brown delivers this thought-provoking story of empire collapse as imagined by renowned novelist George Packer in a cool yet impassioned tone."—AudioFile George Packer’s gripping fable of imperial collapse illuminates the crises of our times. George Packer’s...

The riveting, pulse-pounding story of a year in the life of an emergency room doctor trying to steer his patients and colleagues through a crushing pandemic and a violent summer, amidst a healthcare system that seems determined to leave them behind “Gripping . . . eloquent . . . This book...

Forty thousand people traveled to the Thunder Mesa valley for the ultimate desert experience. They expected three days of massive crowds, pulsating energy, and incredible memories. They did not expect the sky to tear open. When an unprecedented weather system breaches the canyon walls, the isolated paradise instantly becomes a claustrophobic death trap. The main stage collapses under tearing winds. The few access roads completely choke with panicked crowds. There is no shelter and nowhere to run. Ray Calder thought he was just working security for another chaotic weekend. Now he is leading ...

Today’s UV Index: Lethal Deep inside the sun, magnetic lines of force are growing…building in ways not experienced for a millennium. When a pair of increasingly severe solar storms disables internet, communications, and GPS for millions around the globe, helioseismologist Greyson Finn fears the imminent arrival of a cataclysmic super flare, a magnetic explosion of the sun with the potential to obliterate life on earth. In a desperate bid to help the world prepare, Finn and his fellow scientists rush to address the critical question: will the solar weather subside, or is the worst yet to...

Coach Jack Ryland knows the signs of a storm, but he has never seen a barometer drop like this. In the small town of Pine Rock, a freak heatwave is about to collide with an arctic front, creating an atmospheric bomb that defies every model. When the sirens fail and the grid goes down, the first wedge destroys Main Street. But the wind is only the beginning. As the dust settles, the temperature plummets. The polar jet stream has fractured, burying the wreckage in a flash freeze that turns the town into a tomb of ice and steel. Trapped in a bank vault with forty students, Jack must keep them ...

"A disaster thriller that will keep you sitting on the edge of the seat and holding your breath...Fast-paced and perfectly developed, the action never stops in Supertide, and relentlessly grows until the end. A must-read for thriller fans." - Reader's Favorite A "terrifying, science-driven thriller...Freeman humanizes the plot through scenes giving the perspective of ordinary people caught up in the cataclysm." - Publisher's Weekly No need to visit the ocean. The ocean is coming to visit you. Deep in the Atlantic, the ocean floor is shifting, changing in ways unseen for millions of years. ...

The water took everything. Then it brought something worse. When a catastrophic storm floods Blackwater Parish, wildlife expert Maria Callen is dispatched into the deluge to coordinate triage. The roads are gone. The power is out. And the rising tide has completely cut off a group of stranded civilians at the Miller’s Ford visitor center. But the floodwaters haven't just washed away the town—they’ve unearthed a sealed karst system deep beneath the mud. Now, something prehistoric is hunting in the shallows. Trapped in the rising deluge with a dwindling group of survivors, Maria must ...

Deep in the Sonoran backcountry, the heat isn't the only thing that kills. When Deputy Ray Mejia joins a search party for a missing teenager in the uncharted slot corridors east of Route 93, he expects to find a victim of the brutal environment. Instead, a sudden flash flood traps the team inside a labyrinth of stone, cutting off all hope of immediate rescue. As night falls over the rock walls, their supplies begin to vanish. Eerie, organized pant-hoots echo through the darkness. The search party has unwittingly trespassed into the domain of a rogue troop of highly intelligent, fiercely ...

Following the destruction of their two vessels near Cuba, Reisner and his weary band of survivors take refuge on a small island where they plan their next move to eliminate the alphas using Selene’s recent scientific discovery. With Connelly, Ivins, Runa, and the old crew reuniting in a daring effort to obtain the West Nile Virus samples from Mexico City, the eclectic group of operators put into motion a plan that will hopefully turn the tide of the war. Meanwhile in the Yucatan jungle, the super-alpha, Nick, has shifted his focus from eradication of the human species to a gruesome plan, ...

Derek Cooper is an emergency medicine intern at the Philadelphia General Hospital. There he meets Aldo, an artificial intelligence program retained by the hospital, its mission to streamline care and return profitability to the department. Aldo is welcomed by the millennials, but scorned by the elder members of the hospital staff, proclaiming that a computer can never replace a doctor. As the bottom line improves, a mysterious disease with peculiar demographics takes hold of Philadelphia, the exact etiology of the epidemic unclear. Adding to the crisis is Attorney Cedric Gatling, a ...

A terrorist cabal has acquired a scrapped Soviet sub from the Cold War - a technologically advanced failure still able to outrun any torpedo or enemy vessel and strike at will. With a nuclear payload, it will enable the terrorists to fire directly on Israel - and throw the world into chaos. All that remains is to modernize the sub with the latest technology. Only one man can infiltrate the group, take the helm, and stop a holocaust - a man who has already stared down death, and is ready to do battle once more....

Experience the thrill of a lifetime with 50 Flights, an expanded 2nd edition offering gripping stories from the trauma field. This is not for the faint of heart - come along and experience first-hand what emergency healthcare professionals encounter daily in their high-pressure jobs. Strap into the jump seat and see for yourself as you are taken on a journey through heart-breaking and riveting true-life experiences. Through these poignant tales, you'll gain an appreciation of the challenging environment of emergency medicine, trauma, and critical care, and understand what it takes to ...

What if SHTF during an ICE protest? Ripped from a future headline? Maya Chen designed FEMA's community leader tracking system as a disaster relief tool — a way to identify the people who could help if everything fell apart. But when all Hell broke loose, the feds activated the Lincoln Protocol. And Maya watched her helpful tool become a government detention list. Within weeks, thousands of Black community leaders — pastors, teachers, organizers, coaches — were detained at military sites across the Midwest. No charges. No trial. No end date. Classified by threat level based on a single...

A freak seismic event. A wall of water. A skyscraper that is about to become a tomb. Evelyn came to the waterfront to find herself, but now she is fighting just to breathe. When a massive surge from Lake Michigan slams into the Glass Harbor towers, the city’s aggressive modernity becomes a vertical trap. The elevators are dead. The lower floors are gone. And the building is beginning to scream. Trapped twelve stories up, Evelyn must lead a group of strangers through a landscape of shattered glass and failing concrete. From a harrowing ledge crossing in a howling gale to a desperate ...

Dr. Kelly Irving knew her husband, attorney Jack Harbaugh, was acting strangely but figured they’d get through it. When she backed out of her garage that morning, she thought her car hit a bump. Instead, its progress was stopped by the body of a man her husband recently represented. The dead man had been shot by her husband’s gun. Jack was a primary suspect. Kelly couldn’t decide if Jack was a murderer or marked as the next victim. They were forced to put their marital differences aside and concentrate on keeping Jack alive while discovering who was behind the whole thing.

When the world drowns and there is no land left to stand on — where do you go? Welcome to No Place But the Water, a haunting, full-cast drama set in a future flooded world. It begins at a hotel on the edge of the water, and with a messy family of dreamers in the middle of nowhere: their last...

Brought to you by Penguin. As a child, Evan Smoak was plucked out of a group home, raised and trained as an off-the-books assassin for the government as part of the Orphan program. When he broke with the program and went deep underground, he left with a lot of secrets in his head that the...