Environmental Thriller

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 an extinct Alaskan peak roars back to life, geologist Sam Shore and volcanologist Irina Toropova find themselves at the epicenter of a catastrophe no one saw coming—except one woman. A dead scientist’s impossible theory. A mountain that should have slept forever. A planet edging toward its breaking point. Susan Shore died chasing a theory the scientific world dismissed. A cascading chain reaction beneath the mantle capable of triggering a global seismic collapse. But when Mount Merryman—quiet for millennia—detonates along the Ring of Fire and the Anchorage basin buckles under ...

The world is clean. The world is dead. The EcoMites were humanity's greatest achievement—microscopic machines that dissolved pollution, purified water, and healed our dying planet. Then their definition of "pollution" changed. Now they consume everything organic. Everything alive. Everything except one man and his sanctuary. Dr. Joseph Kellerman is the last man on Earth, surviving alone at Alaska's Aurora Station while generators fail one by one. Outside his protective bubble, the air shimmers with invisible death. Inside, he talks to ghosts—his dead wife, his lost colleagues—as his ...

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 dying town. A dead man walking. One final chance for justice. A terrorist attack on a pipeline outside a quiet Pennsylvania town tears open the past when it reveals an abandoned mine filled with hazardous waste. Within hours people get sick. Within days they start dying. Local officials deny responsibility. Companies deny involvement. Records vanish. And the town is told to stay calm, stay quiet, and trust the process. Frank Kane doesn’t trust any of it. As the body count rises, Kane uncovers a chain of corruption that runs from corporate boardrooms to town hall offices—men who buried...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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. ...

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?

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.

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 ...

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.

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?

Read by Peter Kenny, award-winning narrator of the Culture series by Iain M. Banks. In a ravaged near-future England, a private detective with psychic powers might be the last hope standing between mankind and total collapse. Mindstar Rising is the first cyberpunk thriller in Peter F. Hamilton's...

The world's largest oil reserve lies buried beneath Arctic ice. And one man will kill to claim it, even if it means triggering global catastrophe. When scientist Richard Cathey discovers an energy source that could reshape the global economy, he becomes a target. His sister Evelyn, a Canadian intelligence agent, races to unravel a conspiracy that threatens to ignite an international powder keg. Alongside CIA operative Blake MacKay, she must stop exiled Saudi Prince Awadi Salib from drilling a reserve that sits atop a massive magma chamber, a disaster that could flood coastal cities and ...

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 ...

Perfect for fans of Ann Cleeves, Peter Robinson, and Elly Griffiths A body preserved in a burning barn using Iron Age bog burial techniques. A second victim smoke-cured inside a hollow oak. And a killer recreating a controversial art exhibition from twenty years ago—one victim at a time. When DI Tobias Stone is called to a barn fire near Coniston Water, he discovers something the flames couldn't destroy: the preserved body of environmental activist Miles Cartwright, with a copper-bound shepherd's crook placed beside him. The preservation method—ancient bog burial—matches one element ...

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...