Fiction - Thrillers - Political

A colonial-era thriller set against the background of big power conflict. The ultimate timepiece tinderbox of sun, sex and spies. Kuwait 1960. With Soviet backing Iraq plans to invade.Gordon Carlisle lives in the expat community of Ahmadi with little to worry about other than...

Geraldine Hammer, MI5's director of counter-espionage, is in the crosshairs of a gunman.What first appears to be a terrorist plot evolves into a deadly revenge mission by a Russian spy and assassin. Rebecca Strong, a young artist, unwittingly gets caught up in the drama,...

At stake is nothing less than global peace. President Kimbel Stones must transition super operative Magus Crayle from the field to a desk job at Langley. The top desk job. Downside? The end of the invaluable, off the books team led by Crayle. Stones...

Most people forget their dreams in the morning. "Boston" Hollinger must remember his to save his life.From award-winning author Mikael Carlson, this new edition of The Eyes of Others is a retelling of his 2015 action-packed political and spy thriller that will keep you...

A trucker, a blogger, and a congressman determine the fate of the most powerful empire the world has ever known. Americans are angry and divided along party lines. They're tired of the endless wars, high gas prices, and high unemployment. They're tired of the...

OFF THE CHART is a 2017 Winner of the Maggie Award of Excellence.Joni Bell's life as a former American military helicopter pilot has grown complicated. The only way to rescue a spy she's come to love and keep a promise to a child whose...

Were American POWs left behind at the end of the Vietnam War-either by accident or design? Colonel Tom Callahan is driven to find out-his own father is still listed as Missing In Action. What Callahan doesn't understand is how politically explosive the issue is,...

TWISTED REASONS, the first in a trilogy of international thrillers based on arms and human trafficking from a modern 'rogue' Russian state, is the tale of two college friends who get drawn into the heist of nuclear material from a former Soviet site. Arriving...

On a two-hour airplane flight, businessmanHal Dormundgave a rambling monologue of advice to theteen girl --a runaway -- beside him. "Find what you like best and work like hell at it," he said. Seven years later, she has finally found him to say that...

A gripping novel that gives readers a rare glimpse into Colombia's notorious drug wars, told by someone who knows the landscape intimately. When Luzma's brother Jair unwittingly uncovers the plan by Colombia's most notorious drug cartel to smuggle an unprecedented cocaine shipment into the...

Everyone knows UK general elections aren't what they used to be. British politics, Westminster in particular, is mired in an integrity crisis. Expenses scandals, cash for questions, a tainted honours system and other wrong-turns have created a deeply disillusioned electorate. Enter Real Alternative, a...

When young lawyer Ian Sutherland is asked to write a death-bed Will, he has no idea that the dying man, John Field, had been a Royal Marine sniper in the Second World War.Having shot an SS officer, Manfred Fuchs, during the Battle of the...

In an age of rising populism, growing social unrest, and insecurity across Europe, an undercover MI5 eco-warrior turns terrorist. Pursued by the tenacious Inspector Erasmus, they engage in an existential battle of wits with each other, and with an unknown power. The action moves...

The book The Lawyers of Chambia (Licensed Criminals for Criminals) is a satire piece of work that is aimed to provoke the reader's thoughts in legal-related matters. More than getting a reader to think, the book seeks to drive readers to acquire general legal...

Secret Service agent Glinka Glickstien has been "special" from birth. Her talents were always on display, whether she was playing sports, breaking up a counterfeiting ring, or guarding people. But when she and her colleagues discover that she has been the real target of...

Power Play is a timely thrill ride by Ben Bova, one of science fiction's most respected novelists, and a six-time Hugo Award winner.Astronomer Jake Ross wants nothing more than to teach a few university classes each semester and continue his research. However, Frank Tomlinson,...

An Esquire "Best Book of Spring 2022"A San Francisco Chronicle "Most Anticipated Novel of 2022"A Literary Hub "Most Anticipated Book of 2022"From "an important writer in every sense" (David Foster Wallace), a novel that imagines a future in which sweeping civil conflict has forced...

Kilauea's smoldering lava fields--a unique place to bury the bodies A scrap of cloth fluttering in the wind leads Hilo police Chief Detective Koa Kāne to the tortured remains of an unfortunate soul left to burn in the path of an advancing lava flow....

Britain is a country under surveillance. Neighbours spy on neighbours. Schools enforce loyalty to the state. And children are encouraged to inform on their parents.Jennifer Sinclair has earned her freedom but returns home to find everything changed.Rita Gurumurthy has failed to prove her loyalty....

Jennifer Sinclair's fight to save her political career, her family and her freedom has failed. Traumatised by prison violence, she agrees to transfer to the mysterious British Values Centre.Rita Gurumurthy has betrayed her country and failed the children in her care. Unlike Jennifer, she...

Jennifer Sinclair is many things: loyal government minister, loving wife and devoted mother. But when a terror attack threatens her family, her world is turned upside down. When the government she has served targets her Muslim husband and sons, her loyalties are tested. And...

TALK OR KILL is an intriguing suspense thriller, which details the hunt for the al-Qaeda leadership, and offers a fictional portrait of Osama bin Laden, plus an insight into how he managed to hide in Pakistan for so long. The story describes al-Qaeda's war...

"One of the best thriller writers on the planet." --The Real Book Spy In the next thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling Mitch Rapp series, it's a race against the clock when ISIS takes out the entire US power grid and throws...

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER "Fast-paced...pulse-pounding...supremely entertaining...His best ever." --The Washington Times "This might be the single greatest thriller I've covered....It's amazing!" --The Real Book Spy Scot Harvath returns in the newest thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling...

A writer in self-imposed exile in London receives a call from the Prime Minister of his former country, inviting him to return to write the Prime Minister's biography. As he embarks from his small flat in west London to the modern Caribbean island he...

From the winner of the 2021 Chinua Achebe Prize for Literature... Determined to overrule the Nigerian President, members of the powerful secret society, The Sacred Order of the Universal Forces, led by Chief Donald Amechi and Christian Evangelist Chris Chuba, employ a terrorist cell...

Friendship comes at a costWhen Inspector George Zammit, of the Maltese Pulizija, reluctantly agrees to help his old friend, the former Libyan militia leader, Abdullah Belkacem, his quiet life is turned upside down. George is thrown into an adventure in the wilds of North...

From bestselling author J. B. Turner comes the next chapter in Jon Reznick's story--revenge for a murdered friend.Jon Reznick is not a man to cross. A brutally effective black-ops veteran, Reznick has a history of taking the law into his own hands. So when...

From bestselling author J. B. Turner comes the next chapter in Jon Reznick's story--revenge for a murdered friend.Jon Reznick is not a man to cross. A brutally effective black-ops veteran, Reznick has a history of taking the law into his own hands. So when...

The long-anticipated origin story of legendary Marine, fan favorite, and father of literary icon Bob Lee takes us to the battlefields of World War II as Earl Swagger embarks on a top secret and deadly mission--from Pulitzer Prize--winning and New York Times bestselling Stephen...

A gripping and evocative story of love, politics, betrayal and bravery, which reimagines events of the interwar years. Jennie Lee was elected to parliament aged just twenty-four, five years too young even to vote in 1929 Britain. From the Labour backbenches, she hurled barbs...

The dawn of an inconceivable act of treason rises. The stakes for America's future have never been higher than in a gripping novel of suspense by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Deep Sleep.When CIA officer Helen Gray died, her son, Devin, a...

Yasmin Angoe's They Come at Knight is the heart-pounding second installment in the Nena Knight series about an intrepid female assassin who will stop at nothing to protect her family.For elite assassin Nena Knight, eliminating dangerous players on the world stage is part of...

Yasmin Angoe's They Come at Knight is the heart-pounding second installment in the Nena Knight series about an intrepid female assassin who will stop at nothing to protect her family.For elite assassin Nena Knight, eliminating dangerous players on the world stage is part of...

Perfect for fans of Matthew Quirk and Barry Eisler, in Frank Sennett's hands, the world of a former military officer and Secret Service agent comes to harrowing life as a diabolical plot threatens everything he cherishes and believes. Ex-Army Ranger sniper Rafe Hendrix leads...

"Beware, [this] story will leave you hanging..." -- James Stejskal, author of The Snake Eater ChroniclesRichard "Rick" Blayne has a mission. One of the CIA's top expert on Cambodia, who escaped the country's fall to the Khmer Rouge and has monitored the ensuing genocide...

With its roots in a true but little-known incident involving the aerial bombing of a Midwest powder production plant in 1969, Summer of Rain, Summer of Fire is a family conflict that illuminates the struggle between conservative and liberal, between conformity and independent thought....

A modern-day Romeo and Juliet--set against the backdrop of deadly weapons smuggling When ten-year-old Elizabeth West's father dies in a tragic plane crash over the Persian Gulf, her family uproots their life in Washington, D.C., and moves to London. Her mother marries a knighted...

A Russian Defector--A Worldwide Dragnet--A Looming Assassination--Max Geller is back in Moscow Former CIA Russia expert Max Geller is recovering from an intense mission while lying low in Australia, enjoying his sudden wealth in the company of his new girlfriend. But his beachy bliss...

Football manager Charlie Gordon is struggling with one defeat after another at the club he loves. Only a decent Cup run is keeping him in work, but tensions are running close to the surface ahead of the next round: Chelsea away. Footballers fall into...

An exclusive prequel novella to the New York Times bestselling author's award-winning thriller series. FBI Special Agent Irene Rivers is horrified to learn that because of mistakes made by agents under her command, a murderer and child molester will walk free. But now her...

When Violet Cruz accused U.S. Representative Alan Barclay of being "the spawn of a Martian whore" and took a shot at him, everyone agreed that she was delusional. It was just another conspiracy theory in Washington, DC, where such bizarre claims had become all...

Author: Stefan AhnhemISBN-10: 1786694646ISBN-13: 9781786694645Publisher: Head of ZeusLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/06/2020Pages: 544Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.75lbsAbout the AuthorStefan Ahnhem is the internationally bestselling author of the Fabian Risk thrillers. He has worked as a screenwriter on Mankell's Kurt Wallander series and serves on the board of the...

Two men are kidnapped, sent to an African diamond mine to complete an equipment installation, and must find a way to escape. They'll revive a temple and keep their mouths shut, or be killed. It's 1994, near the end of the Rwandan war. Robert's...

In this "spellbinding and totally original thriller" (Philipp Meyer, author of The Son) a lonely veteran's gruesome discovery throws him right into the face of danger as a twisted investigation unravels the secrets of his dark past. One early morning on a Norfolk beach...

Alex Hawke is sailing into trouble when an around-the-world journey becomes a fight against terror in the latest exciting adventure from New York Times bestselling novelist Ted Bell. After saving the kidnapped heir to the British throne, gentleman spy and MI6 legend Alex Hawke...

"And on the Seventh Day, He rested."-Genesis, 2: 2-3 From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genesis Code and The Syndrome, here is a spellbinding new thriller of international intrigue, religious prophecy, cutting-edge science, and unrelenting suspense. For Danny Cray, a struggling...

From bestselling author Noel Hynd comes this new series, The Cuban Trilogy, bursting with intrigue and set against the backdrop of Havana, an explosive capital city of faded charm, locked in the past and torn by political intrigue.U.S. Treasury Agent Alexandra LaDuca leaves her...

It is April 1997, and all of Hong Kong is counting down to July 1, when Britain will hand over rule of the country to China. Public anxiety about the transfer of power is running high, but "Charlie" Chan Siu-kai's biggest concern is a...

A story of foreign student from North Africa, only planning to potentially fly to the U.S. But he finds himself in a spy game between Uncle Sam and Uncle Mao.. Don't Be Afraid to Fall If You Look Out The Window! Author: Ramdane BelamriISBN-10:...