Government Fiction Thrillers

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...

Based on true events, but unlike anything you've ever read before, #1 New York Times best-selling author Nelson DeMille has created what may be his finest work to date.

The human race is at a crossroads; we know that we are not alone, but details about the alien presence on Earth are still being withheld from the public. As the political climate grows more unstable, the world is forced to consider the ramifications of granting human rights to nonhuman persons. How do you define “person” in the first place?

Michael Tanner is on his way home from a business trip when he accidentally picks up the wrong MacBook in an airport security line. He doesn't notice the mix-up until he arrives home in Boston, but by then it's too late. Tanner's curiosity gets the better of him when he discovers that the owner is a US senator and that the laptop contains top secret files. When Senator Susan Robbins realizes she's come back with the wrong laptop, she calls her young chief of staff, Will Abbott, in a panic.

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-...

Nobody likes the I.R.S.... But that is Jesse’s job... Could he survive the nightmare coming his way? It wasn’t the life he imagined growing up. He had a wife, but his marriage was in trouble; a career, but it was eating him alive; and enemies? Yes, he had them, too... and they were powerful. Jesse thought if he worked hard and kept his head down, the troubles from his past wouldn’t find him. He was wrong. Los Osos, California, was idyllic in many ways. Jesse and Amber’s love seemed to be taken from the pages of a small-town romance novel, but that was before MacElveign set his ...

Sam Dryden, retired special forces, lives a quiet life in a small town on the coast of Southern California. While out on a run in the middle of the night, a young girl runs into him on the seaside boardwalk. Barefoot and terrified, she's running from a group of heavily armed men with one clear goal - to kill the fleeing child. After Dryden helps her evade her pursuers, he learns that the 11-year-old, for as long as she can remember, has been kept in a secret prison by forces within the government. But she doesn't know much beyond her own name, Rachel.

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 ...

Juliana Brody, a judge in the Superior Court of Massachusetts, is rumored to be in consideration for the federal circuit, maybe someday the highest court in the land. At a conference in a Chicago hotel, she meets a gentle, vulnerable man and has an unforgettable night with him - something she’d never done before. They part with an explicit understanding that this must never happen again. But back home in Boston, Juliana realizes this was no random encounter. The man from Chicago proves to have an integral role in a case she's presiding over....

There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation.

Un relato vibrante, tenso y pormenorizado que empieza leyéndose como una novela policíaca y acaba leyéndose como una novela de terror.

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.

HUNT/CODE CLASSIFIED FILE — PARTIALLY DECLASSIFIED Transcript recovered from Incident 041. Clearance: ALPHA BLACK. INTERVIEWER: Your report lists [REDACTED] missing personnel. COMMANDER: That’s incorrect. They weren’t missing. They were... [REDACTED]. One man screamed after he vanished. INTERVIEWER: You also marked [REDACTED] team members as "unaccounted for." COMMANDER: They didn’t go missing. We just couldn’t retrieve what was left. INTERVIEWER: Did you recover the civilians? COMMANDER: Technically. But [REDACTED] INTERVIEWER: Was the rescue operation aborted by command? ...

Deep in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, a huge protected tract of rain forest in Northern Guatemala, lies the mythical Temple of Priests. Only one man knew of the temple's location, but he was killed before he could relay the coordinates. Now, newly reinstated Taskforce operator Pike Logan has the grid location of the ruins, and he's convinced Jennifer Cahill to travel to Guatemala in search of the Mayan temple her uncle died trying to find. But Pike and Jennifer are not the only ones heading into the rain forest in search of hidden treasure.

A top secret military base is hiding more than just your typical secrets. These ones may change the world forever... Peter Van Klees, a genetics professor turned entrepreneur, is more than he seems. With the support of key military leaders, Van Klees maintains several identities as well as a top secret "Institute" where he is free to carry his most daring experiments to completion. But Paige Stephens, searching for answers to her husband's mysterious death, and Slater Ellis, intrigued by unexplainable events near a top secret military base, stumble into Van Klees' web of deceit and cannot ...

Dimos Horacki is a Borolian journalist and a cynical patriot, his muckraking days behind him. But when his newspaper ships him to the front, he’s embedded in the Imperial Army and the reality of colonial expansion is laid bare before him. His adventures take him from villages and homesteads to the great refugee city of Hronople, built of glass, steel, and stone, all while a war rages around him. The empire fights for coal and iron, but the anarchists of Hron fight for their way of life.

They thought they could strike America and vanish. They were wrong. When a brutal terror attack rocks the American Southwest, three veterans refuse to wait for backup. Wout O’Dell, a former Delta Force sniper, is pulled back into the fight—this time on home soil. Alongside his battle-hardened teammates, Peter and Odie, Wout uncovers a plot more sinister than anyone imagined: foreign terrorists embedded in plain sight, aided by a ruthless cartel and protected by corrupt political forces. Armed with military-grade tactics and unwavering resolve, the team launches a relentless pursuit ...

On Parrish Island, a restricted island off the coast of Virginia, is a little-known and never-visited psychiatric facility. There, the government stores former intelligence employees whose psychiatric states make them a danger to their own government, people whose ramblings might endanger ongoing operations or prove dangerously inconvenient. One of these employees, agent Hal Ambler, is kept heavily medicated and closely watched. But there's one difference between Hal and the other patients, Hal isn't crazy.

Now that the devasting pandemic has subsided, and the election is over, Americans are eager to return to normal. But, with a stunning decision, the Supreme Court has just thrown the country into pandemonium. Under a shroud of chaos and despair, lines are drawn, and sides are chosen. As the United States begins to unravel, rogue militias march across the nation closing borders and threatening citizens. Laws are flagrantly broken by those who vowed to uphold them. Innocent citizens are kidnapped, some are killed. And, the US President is calling the shots. In disparate corners of the country,...

In an age of political unrest, one man aims to bring the government to its knees—and there's only one agent who can stop him. Wealthy political radical John Wright has taken aim at the US government, believing that only he can make things right. State Department Agent John Graves has been watching Wright for months, studying him, gathering intel, trying to determine his next move before he makes it. Now, after hacking a government computer for secret files and stealing a shipment of VZ nerve gas, a binary agent, Wright has gathered everything he needs to unleash mass destruction.