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.

The last satisfying sunset of the old world went completely unnoticed. Rush hour traffic on Interstate 95 is sluggish but normal. Then the sky tears open. Vehicles die instantly. Cell phones turn into useless glass bricks. The power grid completely vanishes in a fraction of a second. Matt is stranded sixty miles from his family. His daughter is waiting for him. His wife is terrified. He knows that staying on the highway means certain death as panic quickly overtakes the trapped commuters. He grabs what little he has and starts walking. The journey north through Connecticut becomes a brutal ...

A weekend getaway was supposed to mend a fractured family. Instead, it woke a forty-year-old curse. Former search-and-rescue diver Owen Rourke just wants to reconnect with his grieving teenage daughter, Sadie, at their old vacation cabin. But when a violent summer storm traps them on the water alongside a hundred panic-stricken tourists, they realize they aren't just fighting the elements. Something massive, intelligent, and relentlessly hungry is hunting the crowded shallows—attacking boats from below and tearing through steel like paper. To survive a night of claustrophobic terror, Owen...

The storm was only the first threat. Hurricane Mara is tearing across the Gulf Coast, driving a massive surge into the sleepy island of Pelican Key. For the residents who refused to evacuate, surviving the crushing winds and rising tides is a brutal, desperate fight. But the floodwaters have opened a new nightmare. Sawgrass World, a local wildlife rescue facility, has suffered a catastrophic breach. Dozens of captive alligators are now swimming freely through the submerged neighborhoods. Among them is Brutus, a fourteen-foot territorial bull weighing over a thousand pounds, who has claimed ...

On Christmas Eve, while most families prepare for celebration, a veteran law enforcement dispatcher walks into another overnight shift inside a chaotic emergency communications center. The city is understaffed. The calls never stop. Domestic violence erupts without warning. Suicides rise during the holidays. Officers race from crisis to crisis while she struggles to keep everyone alive from the other side of a radio. Then a frightened little girl calls 911 begging for help as her father attacks her mother. Moments later, gunfire explodes over the phone line. What follows is a devastating ...

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....

The power is dead. The dam is cracking. The countdown has begun When a catastrophic blackout plunges Mercy Ridge, West Virginia into total darkness, former lineman Owen Vale rushes into the storm. His brother, Logan, has vanished. Logan spent years being dismissed as a paranoid fanatic, obsessively documenting a chilling pattern: whenever infrastructure fails, an enormous, winged entity with burning red eyes appears right before the collapse. Now, the entire county grid is failing in a massive cascade. A multi-county blackout has isolated the valley, an upstream dam is fracturing under the ...

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 water is rising. And so are they. When a relentless storm traps Jenna and her teenage daughter at an isolated summer campground, the rising river is the least of their problems. The devastating deluge has cracked open a sealed underground drainage system—releasing an ancient, flesh-eating colony of amphibious predators that have been breeding beneath the earth for decades. Cut off from the outside world and surrounded by dark, churning currents, Jenna and a small group of desperate locals must navigate the submerged ruins of the property to escape. But the water is getting higher, the...

A stalled hurricane trapped them inside. A prehistoric apex predator is hunting them in the dark. When a catastrophic sinkhole opens at the Blackwater Exotics Preserve during a massive flood, it unleashes a terror sealed underground since the Paleocene epoch. Dr. Renee Holt and a desperate handful of survivors find themselves marooned as the rising water brings a fifty-foot constrictor straight to their doors. The colossal beast tracks their every heartbeat and footstep through the flooded compound. Their concrete sanctuary is failing, and county rescue is seven hours away. With the water ...

“Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice.” A series of catastrophic tsunamis might do the trick, too. The Super Disasters: a trilogy of standalone disaster thrillers, each tale providing a unique depiction of humanity’s response to nature’s fury. SUPERTIDE 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 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...

THEY OPENED A DOOR THAT WAS SEALED FOR THREE MILLION YEARS. Caldera Reef is a pristine paradise designed for the ultra-wealthy—until the water turns red. When a reckless marina expansion blasts open an ancient volcanic shelf, it releases an apex predator perfectly adapted to hunt in the dark: a sixty-foot prehistoric nightmare. Marine biologist Dr. Tara Reynolds came to the isolated luxury resort to investigate a sudden ecological evacuation. She expected to find chemical runoff or thermal stress. Instead, she finds a severed whale shark carcass, crushed limestone formations, and a ...

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 ...

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...

A flooded cave. A sealed prehistoric world. The ultimate apex predator. When historic storm waters flood the tourist routes of Blackwater Caverns, a group of stranded survivors is forced to retreat deep into uncharted tunnels to escape the rising tide. But the surging waters have breached a geological barrier untouched for millions of years, awakening a forgotten subterranean ecosystem—and the pack of blind, cave-adapted theropods that rule it. With their flashlights dying and the floodwaters rising, Nate Garrison and his teenage daughter must navigate a claustrophobic nightmare of ...

"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 forecast said the storm would turn. The forecast was dead wrong. A grieving former ER nurse thought a summer road trip to a beachfront camper festival would help heal the rift between her and her teenage son. But as they arrive on the isolated coastal sands, the ocean begins to boil. When an anomalous weather system rapidly intensifies into a catastrophic Category 4 hurricane, a devastating explosion severs the only bridge to the mainland. Trapped with thousands of panicked festival-goers and a rising storm surge, the mother's medical trauma training is the only thing keeping the ...

Some calls are never answered. Some voices refuse to disappear. 911 dispatcher Mara Ellison has spent years believing every emergency has one simple rule: answer the phone, send help, save lives. Until a phone that should not exist begins ringing. The abandoned emergency line at her dispatch center was disconnected decades ago. It has no power, no network connection, and no reason to work. But someone is calling. The voices on the other end belong to people who died years earlier—victims whose final emergencies were never resolved. Their calls are still happening. Their crises are still ...

"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...