Mass Disaster

"Porter is a perfect narrator for these action-packed thrillers." —AudioFile on Joe Ledger: The Missing Files, an Earphones Award winner "Listeners will find themselves entranced by Porter’s terrific narration." —AudioFile on The Dragon Factory, an Earphones Award winner "Porter pulls...

In the next novel in the Joe Ledger and Rogue Team International series by New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry, the team faces new and old enemies alike as a bioengineered version of The Black Death surfaces. This program is read by award-winning narrator Ray Porter. Hundreds of...

"Ray Porter is the perfect book narrator. He submerges so completely into each character that they come alive as individuals. He allows the story to speak rather than making it ‘his’. He’s also fun to work with –and we have done a ton of projects together. It’s to the point that I hear...

As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass extinctions and, in the process, offers us a glimpse of...

When the lights go out, the true countdown begins. An electromagnetic pulse has instantly crippled the nation, plunging the eastern seaboard into darkness. Stranded thirty-seven miles from home, municipal water supervisor Tom Brewer must navigate a dead, panic-stricken highway to reach his wife and daughter. The world he knew is gone, replaced by gridlocked roads, failing supply chains, and desperate people realizing that help is never coming. But getting home is only the first battle. With the electric pumps destroyed, Bellweather’s water supply will run completely dry in exactly forty-...

In 1927, while the majority of the township of Bath, Michigan, was celebrating a new primary school - one of the most modern in the Midwest - Andrew P. Kehoe had other plans. The local farmer and school board treasurer was educated, respected, and an accommodating neighbor and friend. But behind his ordinary demeanor was a narcissistic sadist seething with rage, resentment, and paranoia. On May 18 he detonated a set of rigged explosives with the sole purpose of destroying the school and everyone in it.

In The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, Riley Black walks listeners through what happened in the days, the years, the centuries, and the million years after the impact, tracking the sweeping disruptions that overtook this one spot, and imagining what might have been happening elsewhere on the globe...

Splash Ridge Waterpark was supposed to be the ultimate summer escape. But historic flooding has driven a massive, starving threat out of the deep woods. On opening day, a highly coordinated herd of feral hogs—led by a monstrous, three-hundred-pound alpha—breaches the park's perimeter, turning the sun-drenched concourses into a claustrophobic trap. As communications fail and the panic rises, park manager Nate Rourke and his staff must navigate a deadly labyrinth of shattered attractions and flooded maintenance tunnels to save thousands of trapped guests.

This book contains five apocalyptic survival thrillers that involve CME-induced EMP scenarios. Read about strong protagonists as they battle their way through life-changing events when the odds of survival are significantly stacked against them. Distress Beacon Hazardous Escape The Silent Darkness Depletion Crashing Society

In the next novel in the Joe Ledger and Rogue Team International series, things get personal as the team goes up against a group of genetically and biomechanically amplified soldiers to save Joe's kidnapped fiancée. Joe Ledger and Rogue Team International embark on a desperate mission to rescue...

An EMP attack or solar flare strikes, and in the blink of an eye, all electronic devices are knocked out. Your laptop, phone, tablet, all cease working immediately. It’s a well-known fact that electronic and computerized devices becoming knocked out is a repercussion that will happen as a result of an EMP attack going off or a solar flare striking the Earth? It doesn’t matter what you do, you won’t be able to prevent your phone or laptop from becoming knocked out once the attack happens. Or…what if you could keep an electronic device (or multiple electronic devices, for that matter)...

HYPOXIA CITY London has turned into a vast charnel house. The ozone layer has been torn apart, and the city's nine million citizens have perished, suffocated as the oxygen vanished. The streets are carpeted with the dead, they lie in heaps in the Royal Parks, while the Underground network has become a subterranean maze of poisonous gas. Hardly anyone escapes the apocalyptic nightmare. There is no help from outside because the entire world shares the same fate. Planet Earth has finally reached its carrying capacity and is collapsing like a convulsing corpse. 99% of people, gasping and ...

What can extinct dinosaurs teach us about our future? Plenty, according to paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara, who has discovered some of the largest creatures to ever walk the Earth. By tapping into the ubiquitous wonder that dinosaurs inspire, Lacovara weaves together the stories of our...

A secret preview into the treacherous journey of a man thrown from a successful life in Silicon Valley into the dark asphyxiating prison of San Quentin, with murders, serial killers, rats, and COVID around every corner. This true story is told by an inmate who was inside, living and breathing in the system of incarceration for nearly two years. He paints a masterpiece of detail by challenging the stigma that prisoners are less than people, that law enforcement is superior, and that the system of incarceration in the United States is still functioning.

No one ever entered the city center. There were monsters there. But hunger is a powerful motivation to take risks, and he was starving. The Great Plague swept around the globe in a matter of months. By the time patient zero was tracked to the Korean peninsula, it was too late to stop it. In its wake, governments dissolved, infrastructure collapsed, and social order descended into chaos. The few who survived were not the lucky ones, however, for the virus contained a horrific secret. It transformed the infected, mutating them into mindless beasts. Only those who had not yet entered puberty ...

The sky was supposed to save them. Instead, it became a cage. Mayor Daniel Harrow bet the future of his dying town on the Bellwether Sky Festival—a spectacular, fully autonomous aerial performance by twelve thousand synchronized machines. It was meant to be a night of celebration and economic rebirth. But when a dormant, top-secret military protocol buried deep within the swarm's code is triggered, the machines stop performing and start hunting. Classifying the festival as a protected event and the townspeople as a captive audience, the swarm seals off Bellwether from the outside world. ...

A cruise ship attack turns six survivors into overnight celebrities after they take credit for the heroic act of a stowaway who died saving them. The cruise is just what Jess needed--a bit of harmless fun far from her daily grind. But what begins as a relaxing vacation turns into a desperate fight for her life when terrorists take over the ship and start piling up bodies. Teaming up with a mysterious stowaway, Jess attempts to send out a distress call but knows they cannot wait for help to come. If she or the few remaining passengers have any hope for survival, Jess must act now. The papers...

Bloomsbury presents The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert, read by Anne Twomey ________________ WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION ________________ 'An invaluable contribution to our understanding of present circumstances, just as the paradigm shift she calls for is...

Book #6 of the Jab Boone Murder Mystery Series A badly injured Jab Boone cannot directly lead the FBI against renegade ex-GIs targeting Muslim mosques. He is recuperating from a fractured larynx and broken ribs, suffered at the hand of Spangler the Strangler. But when Jab’s top three student trackers are tapped to find the bombers, Jab must trust a Saudi exchange student to be his voice—or have the mission result in fatal disaster!

Days 5 to 8 is the second book in the Mass Extinction Event series, continuing the story of a worldwide apocalypse seen from the eyes of two very different people in two different parts of the US. Trapped in a ruined city, Elizabeth and her brother Henry try to avoid the dangers that seem to...