Environmental Suspense

WELCOME TO THE DEADLY WATERS Where the wild is unforgiving… and the truth can get you killed. From award-winning author Michael Lister comes the Deadly Waters Thrillers—a gripping series set in the rivers, swamps, backroads, and barrier islands of North Florida, where beauty hides brutality and survival is never guaranteed. In these waters, everything hunts The rivers run black. The storms roll in fast. The woods close in tight. And out here, far from help, the most dangerous predator isn’t the wild. It’s human. High-stakes suspense. Relentless pursuit. No way out. Across this ...

When the military transport Orion goes down in the Calderan wilderness, the Alliance hires botanist and tracker Jenny Black Wolf to help find the missing crew. The job is supposed to be a routine search-and-rescue mission. But when Jenny reaches the Orion, it isn’t a crash site—it’s a crime scene. The ship is intact, but everything of value has been stripped out by Karghan marines. The tracks tell her they were there yesterday—and that they didn’t find everything they were looking for. Now they’re hunting the Orion’s crew—and whatever they took with them. Jenny has worked on...

New York Times Bestseller From Neal Stephenson—who coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash—comes a sweeping, prescient new thriller that transports readers to a near-future world in which the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of...

In the Everglades, the deadliest predators don’t have claws. They have signatures. Field Ranger Mac Tanner doesn't trust anything he can’t track. For eight years, he’s been the sole guardian of Sector 7, a vast wilderness of sawgrass and limestone where the only law is survival. His mission: monitoring a ghost—the last breeding female panther in the territory. But as a high-stakes federal land review reaches a midnight deadline, Mac discovers a discrepancy that doesn't belong in the wild. The official data being sent to Washington is being scrubbed, and the species he’s spent his ...

Most listeners and fans of the McGowan Collection Series Novels found a large interest in Bruce McGowan’s adventures while he was a Special Agent of the FBI for twenty years, so we have created a novel based on that time.

Former Marine sniper and CIA target man, Atticus Steed, turned professional hitman, now only takes down special targets...people who for one reason or another have literally gotten away with murder. Directed by an unknown unseen employer who identifies himself simply as Omega, Steed receives his sketchy instructions for the hits via text message from a burner phone. But who is Atticus Steed, really? And how does his employer gain knowledge about cases from all over the country...cases involving those murderers who for whatever reason have been set free by the system?

From New York Times bestselling author Allison Brennan comes a gripping new thriller. A lethal attack with no clear motive…and a killer dead-set on keeping the truth buried. A bomb explodes on a sunset charter cruise out of Friday Harbor at the height of tourist season and kills everyone on...

The storm is cover. The killer is already on the mountain. When whistleblower Dale Fitch flees into the Denali backcountry carrying evidence that could bring down Vance Industries, he thinks the mountain will protect him. He's wrong. A professional hunter named Brecht is already on the glacier. The storm closing in will ground every helicopter within three hundred kilometers. And the only man standing between Fitch and a corporate cover-up is SAR specialist Silas Kincaid — who doesn't know any of this yet. Zero visibility: the weather condition. The operational state. The corporate policy...

This 5th installment in the McGowan series finds the President now compelled to trust only one man for his protection. Can Bruce arrange to get the President safely returned to Washington on his own while the insurgents, who are leaving scores of innocents in their wake, continue their relentless hunt for Eagle One? And will the terrorists actually follow through with their threat of detonating a radioactive dispersion device in city after city until the President surrenders, wreaking even greater devastation than was realized on 9/11?

International terrorist Asahif al-Massoud, AKA The Viper, will soon arrive on U.S. soil to carry out the most heinous and murderous terrorist plot since 9-11. By engaging an American-based Jamaat ul-Fuqra element, his plan is to simultaneously detonate explosive devices in a number of American cities, including Washington, D.C. and New York's Manhattan, that will kill thousands and destroy the cities' infrastructure.

A missing girl. A silent town. Something in the air that makes people stop asking questions. Cole Mercer doesn’t take jobs for money. He takes them because someone has to. When a bar owner’s daughter disappears without a trace—no calls, no sightings, no noise—Mercer follows the only lead he has: east. What he finds in Gayle, North Carolina, isn’t a town hiding secrets. It’s a town that’s forgotten how to care. The air smells wrong. People repeat themselves. Conversations reset mid-sentence. No one questions the work. No one questions the disappearances. And no one remembers ...

A single faulty sensor. A town blissfully unaware of the poison in the air. For Elena Markham, a brilliant and dedicated nuclear engineer, it’s the start of a thirty-hour nightmare. When her instruments detect a critical anomaly at the St. Croix Nuclear Facility, her superiors dismiss it as a minor glitch. With a major safety audit looming, they’re more concerned with appearances than with a potential catastrophe. As management actively works to bury her findings and silence her warnings, Elena finds herself in a desperate race against time. The reactor's core is unstable, and the ...

Marine biologist Dr. Mara Engström arrives at Halcyon Platform — a decommissioned North Sea oil rig turned research station — to continue the work of her predecessor, Erin Caldwell. But Erin didn't leave. She vanished. As a winter storm cuts the platform off from the mainland, Mara discovers Erin's hidden journal and disturbing water samples that point to something far more dangerous than anyone admitted: chemical weapons dumped on the seabed decades ago, now leaking. Someone on the platform knows what happened to Erin. Someone will do anything to keep the secret buried beneath the waves.

If Zufar al-Massoud, the celebrated leader of the Salafist jihadists, accomplishes his planned terrorist act, Thanksgiving Day in the U.S. will forever be known as America's Day of Blood. He and his fellow conspirators will not only place multiple IEDs along the New York City Macy's parade route, slaughtering thousands of onlookers but will release canisters of sarin gas on the subway landings in both New York and Washington, D.C.

I went into the woods looking for a scandal. I found a hunter instead. I’m a litigation attorney. I live for the law, the fine print, and the win. But the law doesn’t exist on Blackwood Ridge. Out here, there is only the rain, the mud, and Cormac. He’s a rogue Park Service ranger with slate-gray eyes and a rifle he knows how to use. He didn't just find me trespassing; he captured me. He says he’s protecting me from the corporate killers hunting us both. He says the handcuffs are for my own safety. But then I found the dossier. He’s been watching me for weeks. He knew my name ...

A body on Florida’s coast. A detective who won’t let silence win. When a young woman washes ashore in Crystal Cove, Detective Ava Martinez uncovers a web of ecological sabotage, corporate greed, and murder. As the investigation deepens, her partner is killed—and the case turns personal. Every clue drags her deeper into a town built on secrets, where the next body could be hers. Why readers can’t look away: • Relentless suspense — a detective racing against corruption and time • Atmospheric Florida setting — beauty masking danger beneath the surface • Emotional depth — ...

Editorial Review A chilling, slow-burn thriller that turns environmental collapse into relentless psychological terror, Silent Extinction grips readers from the first anomaly to its haunting final line. Fans of The Happening will recognize the quiet dread of a world failing without warning — but this story pushes the concept further, grounding the fear in procedural realism and human cost. The result is a disciplined, unsettling novel that lingers long after the last page, proving that the most terrifying disasters are the ones that unfold in silence. SILENT EXTINCTION A True Documented ...

The future of the environment ...plays out on a remote stage.As Jake Maguire, a young FBI special agent, sets out to investigate the murder of a celebrity environmentalist in far-off Mongolia, he finds himself in a race against time. With mining interests and a desperate killer hot on his tail, Jake must use all of his skills and training to unravel the mystery and prevent a lovely and intrepid investigative journalist from walking into danger. With nonstop action and edge-of-your-seat suspense, Murder in Mongolia is a thrilling tale of crime and international intrigue that will keep you ...

In the small town of Oakhaven, the annual Founder’s Day fair is a portrait of peaceful, American life. For EMT Mara Duvall and volunteer firefighter Cole Briggs, it’s a rare day off. But when the sky turns a sickly, nauseating green, the cheerful afternoon curdles into terror. A monster tornado descends on the town, but this is no ordinary storm. When the funnel passes over the site of an abandoned industrial works, it inhales decades of buried, forgotten poison. What it exhales is a toxic, black rain that coats everything in a greasy, deadly film. Trapped in a hardware store with a ...

“Will the world ever return to normal?” This is the question on everyone’s lips in 2064 while the Earth is recovering from the aftermath of gamma radiation. Years before, two comets collided on the brink of Earth’s atmosphere – their debris leaving a path of destruction and a tear in the ozone layer. Now, a group of scientists has gathered inside DomeWorld, a futuristic city built at the epicenter in New Mexico, to find solutions to the damage that’s been done. One of these scientists, Dr. Raina Shores, is drawn to this military-based compound for dual reasons: to use her ...