Government Conspiracy Thrillers

The president of the United States has terminal cancer. Chief of Staff Eli James, his faithful consigliere and best friend, is one of the few who know. But just as the president’s condition mysteriously improves, Eli’s hit with another blow: his daughter has cancer too. Hell-bent on helping her, Eli turns to Big Pharma’s top lobbyist for advice, but their encounter yields more questions than answers. As he races along a twisted trail to the truth, he stumbles upon a devastating cover-up worth billions of dollars—and millions of lives.

In a world where technology has become humanity's greatest vulnerability, one town stands untouched amidst the chaos. When a mysterious pulse of energy sweeps across the globe, cities burn and millions perish as every electronic device becomes a weapon of mass destruction. In the blink of an eye, modern civilization crumbles, plunging the world into darkness and despair. But Hope, a small Nevada town, miraculously survives unscathed. As the rest of the country lies in ruins, this isolated community becomes a beacon for survivors and a target for those seeking to exploit the new world order....

Michael Mace, head of security at a top-secret research facility, opens his eyes in a makeshift morgue twenty-four hours following an event in which everyone perished—including him and his best friend, Shelby Shrewsberry. Having awakened with an extraordinary ability unlike anything he—or anyone else—has ever imagined, Michael is capable of being as elusive as a ghost. He sets out to honor his late friend by helping Nina Dozier and her son, John, whom Shelby greatly admired.

A recurring frightening vision and the disappearance of a top government researcher are somehow tied to each other. Only Nick Randall solve the mystery. Archeologist Nick Randall is haunted by a recurring nightmare that may be tied to his controversial research. As he searches for answers, assassins nearly kill him, forcing him into hiding. Nick’s son, John, a talented bioengineer, faces his own mystery. Having developed a drug that erases traumatic memories, his research partner suddenly disappears. While searching for him, John makes a terrifying discovery. He has been part of a secret,...

Quinn Quicksilver was born a mystery—abandoned at three days old on a desert highway in Arizona. Raised in an orphanage, never knowing his parents, Quinn had a happy if unexceptional life. Until the day of “strange magnetism.” It compelled him to drive out to the middle of nowhere. It helped him find a coin worth a lot of money. And it practically saved his life when two government agents showed up in the diner in pursuit of him. Now Quinn is on the run from those agents and who knows what else, fleeing for his life.

In a world shattered by an apocalyptic attack survival is just the beginning. Paul Hickman, a man with a shadowy past, finds himself thrust into leadership of Hope, one of the last intact communities in a devastated America. As he navigates the treacherous waters of post-apocalyptic politics, Hickman must confront both external threats and internal power struggles that threaten to tear Hope apart. Meanwhile, his daughter Sam is missing, and he's dispatched an unlikely pair - a guilt-ridden ex-cop and a pregnant woman - on a perilous cross-country mission to find her. From the ashes of ...

The Hunted Become the Hunters... But What They Find Might Be Worse. Dr. Elise Holloway and the broken remnants of her team survived the horrors of Site Sierra, but escape is only the beginning. Hunted by the ruthless Kestrel organization and stalked by unseen forces within the ancient forests, their only hope lies with Dr. Aris Thorne—a brilliant, perhaps unstable, scientist hiding secrets that could shatter everything. Their desperate journey north leads them through treacherous terrain and impossible choices, pushing them past the limits of endurance. Kestrel, led by Aris's own vengeful...

Based on true events, but unlike anything you've ever read before, #1 New York Times best-selling author Nelson DeMille has created what may be his finest work to date.

Five years after the crashof TWA Flight 800, the government has declared it a result of mechanical failure. But John Corey, an ex-NYPD detective who is now a contract agent with the Federal Anti-Terrorist Task Force, is persuaded by Kate Mayfield, his wife and task force partner, that the case deserves a second look.

A Dangerous Journey Into The Criminal Underworld Shane’s perilous journey through the drug underworld, a cesspool, haunted by corrupt politicians, drug cartels, an ongoing criminal conspiracy and a shadow government, forces him and his team to make quick decisions that will alter their lives forever. ˃˃˃ Digging Into The Past To Reveal New Discoveries Shane’s investigation takes him back to a cold case investigated by a team of investigators and reviewed for prosecution by his father. . . The Case that led to his father’s death. The only remaining case file documenting his ...

The United States isn’t the place it used to be. While a mysterious deadly fog imprisons people in their homes, a group of billionaire investors take over the country and run it as a private organization. All Eliza Daniels ever wanted was a simple life, but circumstances seem to conspire against her. As a member of the media before it was disbanded, she suddenly finds herself with information that could save the country. But, with her best friend missing, a complacent society, and people who can’t be trusted running the new United States Operation Divisions, she doesn’t have the ...

In a world already brought to its knees, Hope stands as the last bastion of freedom. But for how long? As an overwhelming force of the mysterious Sons of Solomon tightens its grip across the post-apocalyptic American landscape, the small town of Hope faces its greatest challenge. With their ruthless philosophy of survival of the fittest and a return to primitive ways, the Sons threaten everything the townspeople have rebuilt from the ashes of civilization. From multiple perspectives, Last Freedom weaves together the stories of those caught in the Sons' web: Sam Hickman, on the run with a ...

The epic conclusion to the Last City series arrives as humanity faces its darkest hour. With the city of Hope under siege and an army of thousands gathering in the east, Devon Myers and a small band of survivors embark on an impossible mission to eliminate the monstrous General Mendoza before he can unleash his full fury. Meanwhile, Paul Hickman must rally the remaining defenders of Hope for one final, desperate stand. As Devon and his companions race across a ravaged America, they discover the true horror of what the Sons of Solomon have become. But with time running out and loved ones in ...

When civilization falls, the last freedom is the freedom to fight back. In a world brought to its knees by a mysterious catastrophe, the small town of Hope, Nevada stands as one of the last bastions of civilization. But when a sinister organization known as the Sons of Solomon threatens to impose their brutal vision of a new world order, the people of Hope must decide: submit to tyranny or fight for their freedom. Paul Hickman, Hope's unlikely leader, never wanted to be a hero. But with his daughter finally home and his town under siege, he finds himself at the center of a desperate ...

In The Beckett Cypher – Book 3 – The Politicians, Shane’s cypher team incorporates advanced technology that transforms the Beckett Cypher into an Artificial Intelligence Spy System, known as BaCayse. Once perfected, the powerful cyber-weapon is capable of bypassing cybersecurity barriers to investigate and control enemy operations at multiple remote locations around the world, simultaneously. As she develops, BaCayse evolves into a complex, unique personality struggling to balance logic with the emotional concepts of right and wrong. BaCayse weaponizes the Beckett Case Investigation, ...

In 2007, a short blogpost by Gawker Media outed PayPal founder and billionaire investor Peter Thiel as gay. Thiel's sexuality had been known to close friends and family, but he didn't consider himself a public figure, and believed the information was private. This post would be the casus belli for a meticulously plotted conspiracy that would end nearly a decade later with a $140 million dollar judgment against Gawker and its bankruptcy. Only later would the world learn that Gawker's demise was not incidental - it had been masterminded by Thiel.

Michael Shermer presents an overarching review of conspiracy theories—who believes them and why, which ones are real, and what we should do about them. Trust in conspiracy theories, he writes, cuts across gender, age, race, income, education level, occupational status—and even political affiliation. One reason that people believe these conspiracies, Shermer argues, is that enough of them are real that we should be constructively conspiratorial. But Shermer reveals that other factors are also in play: anxiety and a sense of loss of control, as well as certain personality traits.

A small town driven to madness... Something is very wrong in the small town of Blatchford, Pennsylvania. Previously law abiding citizens are being driven to extreme acts of paranoid violence and even murder. Is it just a rash of unusual crimes, or is there a more sinister explanation? Classified Universal Special Projects specialist Colum O’Shea and ex-FBI agent turned CUSP operative Shelby Beck are sent there to find out. What they find in the small rural town is even more baffling and dangerous than either of them could imagine . . . The question is, can they stop it before more people ...

In the future, working under time acceleration is the only way to get ahead. On Monday, Beth Jackson starts work at Relative Industries: a top-secret high-tech science institute with zones of relative time. By Friday, just five days later, she will have worked five years inside Zone 12. For Beth, working inside Zone 12 is an opportunity of a lifetime. But not everyone is as motivated as her to work under time acceleration. Soon after arriving, she meets Howard Henderson: a medical research scientist desperately trying to find a cure for his sick son. However something feels off about his ...

The human race is at a crossroads; we know that we are not alone, but details about the alien presence on Earth are still being withheld from the public. As the political climate grows more unstable, the world is forced to consider the ramifications of granting human rights to nonhuman persons. How do you define “person” in the first place?