Government Conspiracy Thrillers

The legend is real, and it's watching. In Point Pleasant, a terrifying red-eyed creature stalks the night, heralding a dark conspiracy and an unthinkable disaster. When the infamous Mothman begins to terrorize the small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, local deputy Joe Larkin and determined journalist Mary Kline are drawn into a deepening mystery. Their investigation into the red-eyed, winged creature uncovers a sinister government conspiracy stretching back decades, involving secret projects like Project Valkyrie and Project Chiron. They face chilling encounters with the enigmatic ...

She buried the project that almost ended the world. Now it’s waking up. Cassie Leigh Horner thought she’d sealed the door on Omega—a classified defense initiative that nearly caused a global tech collapse. But when a ghost from the past breaks into her facility, it triggers a cascade of secrets she thought were long erased. A rogue AI signal. A buried failsafe. A countdown she didn’t authorize. With her brilliant hacker son by her side and an estranged partner demanding the truth, Cassie must unravel who resurrected Omega—and why they want her code. As digital shadows close in, ...

In the first of D. M. Mitchell’s powerful trilogy, a ninety-five-year-old man makes his way into the main offices of The London Gazetteer, a popular newspaper, with an appointment to see Nicholas Harvey, the chief editor. The old man, Ronald Seaton, has a book with him – The Ashenby Incident – written by Nicholas Harvey a number of years ago. It concerns the mysterious bombing of the small East Coast Yorkshire village in 1944, an incident which wiped out most of the village’s inhabitants. But Harvey isn’t interested in what the old man has to say. At least, not until the pensioner...

Quinn Quicksilver was born a mystery—abandoned at three days old on a desert highway in Arizona. Raised in an orphanage, never knowing his parents, Quinn had a happy if unexceptional life. Until the day of “strange magnetism.” It compelled him to drive out to the middle of nowhere. It helped him find a coin worth a lot of money. And it practically saved his life when two government agents showed up in the diner in pursuit of him. Now Quinn is on the run from those agents and who knows what else, fleeing for his life.

The Next Objective is a sequel set 20–25 years after the events of Primary Objective, written in the vivid, character-driven style of Quentin Tarantino and Thomas Harris. The story picks up with Jerry Johnson, now retired and running a martial arts dojo, still wrestling with PTSD from his military past. Dr. William D. Horton, once a military psychologist, has transformed into a high-profile motivational speaker and consultant to intelligence agencies, teaching advanced influence and persuasion techniques. The novel weaves together psychological thriller elements with lessons in neuro-...

She was trained to track monsters—until she uncovered the one inside herself. When a body is found in D.C. with a name from Chloe Reid’s past carved into its chest, the former FBI profiler is forced back into the shadows she tried to escape. But this time, she isn’t just chasing a killer—she’s unraveling a conspiracy that rewrote her entire life. Roland Hayes, the serial killer she once hunted, now becomes her reluctant ally. Together, they descend into the remnants of a covert program that bred predators and called it progress. The deeper Chloe digs, the more she questions ...

The Government Envoy was just assassinated! Nick Branson and his team have failed! Their next decisions will mean life or death, not just for them - but for millions! Nick and his Protection Team must now deliver a top-secret Peace Treaty to the leader of the Shadow Government. Following The Guide, they make their way through armed militias, roving street gangs, and thousands of refugees fighting to survive a deadly virus and a broken nation. Nick and team must succeed in order to stop the coming civil war that will destroy the country. But is the Peace Treaty real - or a ruse? Tangled in a...

Seventeen years after the tragic death of his father, Darius Anderson is walking directly in his father's footsteps as a member of the Ebbsworth Police Department. Just as he begins to ascend within the department, a series of shocking events unfold, leaving Darius to question everything - and everyone - around him. Meanwhile, Bennie Santos, a prominent member with the rival Muerte Lenta Cartel, finds himself in the middle of a power struggle that puts the safety of his wife and daughter at risk. As they search for solutions, dark forces at play behind the scenes threaten to take everything...

Deep in the wilds of Siberia, a woman is on the run, pursued by a man harbouring secrets - a man intent on killing her. Half a world away, James Reece is recovering from brain surgery in the Montana wilderness, slowly putting his life back together with the help of investigative journalist Katie Buranek and his longtime friend and SEAL teammate Raife Hastings.

In 2007, a short blogpost by Gawker Media outed PayPal founder and billionaire investor Peter Thiel as gay. Thiel's sexuality had been known to close friends and family, but he didn't consider himself a public figure, and believed the information was private. This post would be the casus belli for a meticulously plotted conspiracy that would end nearly a decade later with a $140 million dollar judgment against Gawker and its bankruptcy. Only later would the world learn that Gawker's demise was not incidental - it had been masterminded by Thiel.

A small town driven to madness... Something is very wrong in the small town of Blatchford, Pennsylvania. Previously law abiding citizens are being driven to extreme acts of paranoid violence and even murder. Is it just a rash of unusual crimes, or is there a more sinister explanation? Classified Universal Special Projects specialist Colum O’Shea and ex-FBI agent turned CUSP operative Shelby Beck are sent there to find out. What they find in the small rural town is even more baffling and dangerous than either of them could imagine . . . The question is, can they stop it before more people ...

Three missions. No oversight. Just bodies. Germany’s enemies don’t follow the rules — and neither does Department 89, the covert military unit that doesn’t officially exist. Led by Major Sophie Decker, a woman known across Europe as judge, jury, and executioner, they strike first and vanish without a trace. In Books 12–14 of this relentless thriller series, Decker goes head-to-head with North Korean operatives, dismantles far-right terror networks, and uncovers a plot that could ignite a war across Europe. These aren’t missions — they’re kill orders. Three full-length spy ...

NOW AVAILABLE AS AN AUDIOBOOK! The only way to survive is to keep running. Flynt Redcraft is good at disappearing. Outrunning the Foundation—the organization that experimented on his mind and body—was supposed to be the hard part. Staying hidden should have been easy. Until a strange girl appears out of nowhere, claiming to know him. Claiming he’s her imaginary friend. Flynt knows the Foundation tampered with his memories. He doesn’t trust himself. He doesn’t trust her. But when trained killers close in, hunting them both across the frozen wilderness, Flynt has no choice but to ...

Extraterrestrials finally show their faces. Can one investigator use their technology to stop WWIII from destroying humanity? Dallas, 2072. Jack Slater has been piecing together evidence of alien visits for years. So as the head of a fully funded UFO research team, he’s excited to give an interview to a cute journalist about his unusual job. But when a real-life spaceship appears outside his window and beams in a powerful probe, only his split-second action saves them from an unknown threat. Believing the vessel may have been trying to issue a warning, Jack searches for more clues to the ...

When Detective Constable Lillian Tate arrives at a remote paleontological research site in the harsh Nullarbor Plain, she expects a routine missing person case. Dr. Noah Henshaw, a respected scientist studying ancient fossils, has vanished into the red dust of the Australian desert. What begins as a straightforward welfare check quickly transforms into something more sinister. The discovery of Dr. Henshaw's body reveals a brutal murder that shatters the quiet academic world of fossil research and threatens to expose secrets that powerful people will kill to protect. As Tate delves deeper ...

The Central Intelligence Agency has a hidden hand in the tech world, controlling an intricate web of corporate entities carefully concealed from the public. All for their own nefarious ends - to gather intelligence, weaponize social media outlets, and craft the ultimate human agent. Journalist James Lewis uncovered the truth that threatened to reveal the CABAL's activities and so they acted swiftly to silence him and his editor, Daphne Meyers before more knowledge could be spread. Lewis was killed by swift-moving cancer, but Daphne was taken to become the CABAL’s next experiment, PROJECT ...

The United States isn’t the place it used to be. While a mysterious deadly fog imprisons people in their homes, a group of billionaire investors take over the country and run it as a private organization. All Eliza Daniels ever wanted was a simple life, but circumstances seem to conspire against her. As a member of the media before it was disbanded, she suddenly finds herself with information that could save the country. But, with her best friend missing, a complacent society, and people who can’t be trusted running the new United States Operation Divisions, she doesn’t have the ...

The Restoration Initiative promised salvation, but beneath their pristine Safe Zones, they’re waging a war against humanity itself. For Dr. Geoffrey Belmont, a gifted surgeon forced into their deadly experiments, survival hinges on uncovering their darkest secrets—and keeping his own humanity intact. When Geoffrey is thrown into Site 5, a hospital twisted into a battlefield, he faces horrors beyond comprehension: the infected roam the halls, patients turned into mindless predators, and the Initiative's sinister T2 soldiers hiding in plain sight. To survive, he must form fragile ...

What if the conspiracy theories are true? In The Shadow Protocols: Five Tales of Conspiracy and High Strangeness, award-winning journalist Chet Dembeck presents five chilling stories that blur the line between fiction and reality. From secret government projects that breach the barriers between dimensions, to cyber warfare that threatens the fabric of society itself, these tales explore the dark corners where truth and imagination collide. The Niverna Project reveals a classified experiment gone terrifyingly wrong. Between Dimensions asks what happens when reality tears and something comes ...

On an otherwise normal morning, former Special Forces operative Sam Dryden is the target of an unsuccessful attempted abduction. Using his attacker's cell phone, he learns that another person, a woman named Danica Ellis, is also being targeted. Dryden arrives just in time to save Danica from the assault team sent after her. But neither of them recognizes the other or has any idea why they are being targeted. The only clue is a heavily redacted, official-looking document given to Danica by her stepfather before he was killed.