Ralph R. “Rick” Steinke’s The Sicilian Nexus follows Jake Fortina, a retired US Army officer whose work with Italy’s Carabinieri draws him into signs of a covert operation developing in Sicily. Soon afterward, intelligence links unfamiliar Farsi communications in southeastern Sicily to activity involving organized...

S.E. Glen’s Invasive Species follows Steller, the leader of the Ferns, an underground environmental group targeting corporations blamed for environmental poisoning. After a meticulously planned operation against a Jacksonville packing company, Steller returns home expecting the silence that comes after a mission. Instead, KORA, a...

Chaos is Coming by Dani Donari follows FBI agent David Rickman after a bomb detonates at Atlanta’s MARTA station during the morning commute. Ordered to determine whether the attack is connected to a Charleston park bombing, David discovers that both crimes belong to a wider...

In Rob Phayre’s Reepaman, Jimmy Brown, known online as Reepaman, is a drone engineer with an illegal AI companion named Thalia and a hidden past at MIT that begins with Nathalia’s death. After a Pentagon demonstration draws Defense Department interest, Jimmy gains money, contracts, and...

David Boito’s Fatal Castle opens with the Kohinoor’s arrival at Queen Victoria’s palace in 1850 before moving to the Tower of London in 2023, where the diamond’s colonial history lingers in the Crown Jewels. Ashley Bellamy, a UCLA history student and lifelong diamond obsessive, has...

In Ephraim Clark’s The Paris Protocol, Brad James is an American singer in 1976 Paris who is also an undercover CIA agent. When his handler sends him to the Spanish resort town of Salou to watch Barry Breene, a rogue FBI agent accused of domestic...

In J. Luke Bennecke’s Blackout, the US president is assassinated via a wave of drone strikes to pave the way for a coup, and civil engineer Jake Bendel is thrust into a national nightmare, looking for answers and working hard to stop a complete blackout....

Killing London by Jimmy Ray Conner is a brilliant action thriller that transports us to Britain of the early 1990s. London’s nomination as the host city of the 1992 Olympics and the confidence in the government of Margaret Thatcher suddenly came under threat when gruesome...

Gaza: Tears of Rage, Tears of Sorrow by Richard J. Reese moves between Gaza and Israel, tracing lives shaped by conflict across decades. The story begins on the eve of October 7, 2023, as Khalid ibn Jibril Fawza prepares for a mission that will change...

Athena Technologies is creating a computer system called God’s Eye, which allows all the alphabet agencies of the US to have equal access to the same information. Some people in the government believe this is too much information to have access to and want the...