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...

In Enemy at the Helm by Mark Dickson, coordinated maritime attacks strike major American ports and key global canals, beginning with the destruction of the cruise ship Leviathan off Miami. As the shipping channels are blocked and infrastructure collapses, investigators trace the operation to a...

Rough Diamond Rough Justice by Avien Gray is an enthralling crime thriller. We are transported to England of the 1990s and meet two friends – Cain and Jerry. Jerry is a police officer with the Royal Protection Team. Cain is with MI5’s investigative surveillance team....

Sambisa Sunrise (Olive and Arrow) by Scott R Hofmann is a spine-chillingly realistic terrorist thriller, directly based on the infamous schoolgirl kidnappings in Nigeria by Boko Haram in 2014. When the world was horrified by the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians in Syria by the ISIS...

In Christine Noyes' Maestro's Move, a deadly national crisis ensnares Bradley Whitman, an FBI analyst with a physical disability. A ruthless terrorist, Ali al-Haqani, has already attacked multiple U.S. targets, killing hundreds, and now plans to annihilate America completely. As mysterious deaths spread across the...