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...

The Badass Widows by Valerie Saul is an excellent book. The widows are not your typical mature women. One fixes boat engines. Another is a tech guru. The main character, Beth, is a retired FBI agent, which puts her in a formidable league of her...

The Return of the Flying Boat is a historical drama by Dale Morton. It's the late 1990s. The Russian government has ramped up attacks on shipping corridors all over the Arctic and Atlantic with covert, cutting-edge technology-equipped stealth submarines. Among them, the USS Buffalo is...

Mike Krentz’s Dead Will: Dr. Zack Winston Book 5 is a chilling and riveting medical conspiracy thriller. Dr. Zack Winston is a well-respected ER physician, based at the Bethesda Metro ED. He is temporarily at the District of Columbia University Medical Center ER, in charge...

Dividing Down the Sunlight by Jason Shearer is a Western in the best tradition of the brutal, hard-living existence of the Nebraskan Panhandle. Set in 1878, it follows the exploits of Charlie Aintree, a manhunter, considered the best in the business. Operating out of Fort...

The Waking Ark by T.N. Traynor is set eight centuries after Earth fell silent. Cal wakes inside Ark Twelve to failing oxygen and a containment purge already in motion. Rescued by Mara Nova, he joins a small group of survivors navigating a vessel damaged by...

“The fight didn't end when Harrison died. It started.” No, it isn't a fight that starts in The Shadow Gentleman, a novel by Robin Alden Howard; it's nothing less than a full-blown war. The story begins when Eli Mercer, a brooding individual, takes control of...

Loner-Style Justice, a novella by Mike Marsbergen in the style of screwball comedy, hits all the right spots in delivering a great story. Joseph Tugger is an unusually big but gentle guy whose mission in life is to solve problems, especially the ones where he...

In The Second World by Jake Korell, Flip Buchanan grows up inside a Martian colony where power is exercised through ceremony, media displays, and corporate rituals. While adults hold authority in public, Flip builds his real life with his friends Pepper, Rizz, Pockets, and Cheese,...

In Come the Blood Moon Night by M. Flagg, Chris Forbes survives a supernatural battle in New York and returns to civilian life with his partner, Paige Virelli, believing the danger has passed. Instead, a wound over his heart begins to draw him toward the...