Fiction - Thrillers - Historical

"I sat on the couch with my forearms on my knees and my fingers interlaced and considered the meaning of what I'd discovered in the steamer trunk. The trunk had traveled with me from France. I'd seen the stevedores in Cherbourg carry it up...

"I sat on the couch with my forearms on my knees and my fingers interlaced and considered the meaning of what I'd discovered in the steamer trunk. The trunk had traveled with me from France. I'd seen the stevedores in Cherbourg carry it up...

A cursed book has surfaced in a quiet Upstate New York town-and it doesn't just guide, it controls.When a restless college student and a weary bookstore owner cross paths with the Black Book, reality begins to fracture. Memories twist. Dreams bleed into waking nightmares....

A Modern Day Siege Warfare ThrillerAn ancient curse collides with modern greed when heavily armed mercenaries lay siege to the Tower of London.Ashley Bellamy, a diamond enthusiast, visits her estranged father Clive-the Tower's Chief Yeoman Warder-and becomes trapped when ex-bomb disposal expert Richard Bindar...

The snow falls, carollers sing, and a killer plots his next move...London, 1928. Marius Quin and Lady Bella Montague are ready for a quiet Christmas when they learn that Bella's beloved Aunt Adele has met a shocking end in her picture-perfect cottage. Immediately heading...

His name is Maxx. One X isn't enough for a guy this dangerous.Maxx King is a former Army Ranger turned cybercrime investigator trying to get his life back on track when he has an unexpected confrontation with a ruthless Chinese spy. Struggling to understand...

In the Last Surviving Forest of a Shattered World, Three Ancient Hominids Stand Against Brutal Invaders. 74,000 BCE. The Toba super-eruption has plunged Southeast Asia into volcanic winter. In this apocalyptic wasteland, survival lies only in rare, sheltered pockets of land -- refugia.A young...

From the author of Glamorous Notions comes a harrowing tale set aboard a yacht in the 1920s, where luxury borders on lunacy and mysteries of the deep blur the lines between science and the occult.The Great War may be over, but brilliant scientist Billie...

December 2024 -- After the death of his Marine Corps father in Iraq and his struggles to support his alcoholic mother, a disillusioned Max Engelhardt has abandoned all thoughts of his family's long tradition of military service, despite his grandfather's urging to attend the...

Early November 1963 provides no indication of the tragic events set to unfold. For Washington Post political reporter James Kane, a man who has dedicated his life to digging for the truth, there is no reason to suspect that the secretive leads he is...

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE★ "Mesmerising, tragic, horrifying, utterly unputdownable... An outstanding read for fans of WWII fiction and of writers like Anthony Doerr."--Emily Melton, Booklist (Starred Review)Shortlisted for Kerry Group Novel of The Year A Parade Most Anticipated Book of the Year...

A sunken u-boat.A lost cache of Hitler's gold.Can Chase beat a band of Nazis to this hidden treasure?Chase's peaceful beach day is disrupted when he rescues the beautiful Rikki Talen from an attempted kidnapping. He finds Rikki being pursued by a group of neo-Nazis...

"...astonishingly nuanced and masterfully told..."--Quill & Quire In the style of Bernard Cornwell, The Heretic's Secret Trilogy is a rollicking historical adventure set during the bloody 13th century wars against the Cathar Heretics of Languedoc. When the armoured knights of Pope Innocent III swept...

Set in the late Cold War-era Soviet Union, SPY'S MATE: A NOVEL follows the coming of age of Yasha Basmajian, a young chess prodigy of Armenian origin who rises through the ranks of the Soviet chess establishment with dizzying rapidity. Along the way, however,...

A wry, thought-provoking fictional portrayal of ten pivotal weeks in the life of Leon Trotsky, inspired by the Russian revolutionary's exile in New York City in 1917, by the New York Times bestselling author of The Company January 12, 1917: An ocean liner docks...

FAST-PACED SPY THRILLER.ASSASSINATIONS, CYBER WARFARE, ESPIONAGE, AND INTRIGUE ENDS IN DISASTER FOR THE CHINESE MILITARY SECURITY SERVICE (MSS).Jim Murphy and detective Pham "Flower" Chi Hai from the novel, "Awakening of The Golden Phoenix," again team up in this fast-paced action Chinese spy thriller. Murphy...

Inspired by true events... Home Run Thief, the fourth installment in a riveting series including Wounded Bird, MAC 11 Bravo, and Slowrolled, strikes at the heartstrings of readers as it explores the depths of a father's love and the irreplaceable bonds of friendship. In...

A masterful espionage thriller that delves into the murky depths of international intrigue and conspiracy, set in the aftermath of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.Charles McCarry's novel, a major bestseller, follows Paul Christopher, an American intelligence officer and former Marine, as he...

Author: Aaron ElkinsISBN-10: 1497642965ISBN-13: 9781497642966Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 07/08/2014Pages: 216Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.49d

Author: Aaron ElkinsISBN-10: 1497643090ISBN-13: 9781497643093Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 07/08/2014Pages: 312Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.70d

Author: Glenn CooperISBN-13: 9798992574531Publisher: Lascaux MediaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/19/2025Pages: 312Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d

Author: Ray WellingISBN-10: 1958861782ISBN-13: 9781958861783Publisher: Sager Group LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/09/2025Pages: 358Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.24lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.94d

Author: David BaldacciISBN-10: 1538742071ISBN-13: 9781538742075Publisher: Grand Central PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/16/2026Pages: 432Format: PaperbackSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 1.08d

Capone's North Road is a gritty historical noir along Lake Superior's cold spine. Joe Danner runs the northern mouth of a bootleg pipeline-Marquette's docks, Little Lake reeds, Portage, WI canal swaps, and rail spurs toward Cicero's Hawthorne smoke rooms. After the St. Valentine's Day...

"When a string of mysterious disappearances rock New Orleans, every shadow whispers secrets of revenge and family betrayal. "In a city where every note of a jazz record tells a story of pain and passion, Raymond is haunted by a troubled past, desperate to...

A legendary city lost beneath the waves.A relic that shouldn't exist.An expedition that could rewrite history-or claim every soul on board. When Dr. William Carter hauls a mysterious chest from the ocean's depths, Dr. Laura Stevens seizes the chance of a lifetime. With her...

In the Last Surviving Forest of a Shattered World, Three Ancient Hominids Stand Against Brutal Invaders. 74,000 BCE. The Toba super-eruption has plunged Southeast Asia into volcanic winter. In this apocalyptic wasteland, survival lies only in rare, sheltered pockets of land -- refugia.A young...

Follow Quintus and his cohort in another thrilling historical adventure! For fans of Ben Kane, Conn Iggulden, Bernard Cornwell and Simon Scarrow. Ancient Rome meets Ancient Britannia... Julius Quintus Quirinius and his cohort sail to the mysterious land of Britannia. They have been sent...

For over half a century, the chilling tale of the Hope family massacre has been confined to whispers and schoolyard chants. The dreadful rhyme, casting the surviving member, Lenora Hope, as the monstrous villain, echoes throughout the small town nestled by the Maine coast....

In ancient China: A young girl forced to be betrothedTo a cold blooded killer.Her only hope is from a mysterious hermit.And a new Kung Fu Style.Before Bruce Lee, Before Ip Man......There was Wing ChunAuthor: Tracy CinnamonISBN-13: 9798327042582Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/03/2024Pages: 152Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize:...

A High-Stakes Mission, Deadly Rivals, and an Elusive Bomb - Can Joshua Meister Survive the Quest That Will Define His Life?Joshua Meister's life is on the line as he embarks on a perilous mission to locate a lost hydrogen bomb, dropped on Tokyo during...

"I would advise you, young man, to take care around anyone with the surname Firefax. I know not if the rumors be true that they be king killers, but they are, without any doubt, a dangerous family."Legend tells of a city of gold on...

In 1953, English journalist Graham Peters is sent to Nepal to cover the attempt to conquer Mt Everest. Kathmandu is full of foreigners, including two textile merchants, who upon reading of the successful ascent - and the New Zealander who had "knocked the bastard...

Freya Jorgensen is not her real name. Charlotte de Tournet had to hide her true identity when the Nazis rolled into Paris. The SS took over her Avenue Foch mansion, Le Palais, for use by high-ranking Nazis as a place to relax away from...

In June 1959, America's TV superhero took a bullet to the head in an apparent suicide. But was it? And is he really dead? Stan Wade, a Hollywood PI, sets out to uncover the secret and encounters a host of Mob and Soviet intrigue...

Exoticism and romance. A breath of fresh air.1892 in colonial Africa. A classic and everlasting adventure style. A French official travels Tanganyika in East Africa German to perform intelligence tasks. The daughter of an Arab sheik in danger. Ivory hunters, slave traders, conflicts between...

Sickened by man's barbarity, a medieval lord decides to conduct a bold experiment.Length: 19,000 words.This brutal tale can be found in the short story collection, Straitjacket Blues 2 and the anthology Begin The Madness.About The AuthorDave Franklin's caustic, profanity-laced prose should be approached with...

The premarital bliss between Tom Flanagan and fellow historian Mindy McDonnell is disrupted by mysterious writing on their living room wall and a sudden visit from their former adversary, Martha Radisson. Her fresh and unexpected insights regarding the circumstances of the unexplained disappearance of...

When Emmaline Cagney's father dies on her graduation day, she foregoes college and heads to Honduras to volunteer with Nicaraguan refugees. It's 1986. The Sandinista-Contra war rages in the jungles all around her. But when General James Wilkinson reenters her life during a hurricane,...

GOLD MEDAL WINNER International Book ContestREVIEWS"DiSilvio's plot is cunning and ingenious..." - 5 Stars! Jack Magnus for Readers' Favorite"Rich DiSilvio's novel is an action-packed thriller that is best read with your seatbelt buckled. His descriptive style is so vivid that the atrocities in Auschwitz...

GOLD AWARD WINNER. A Dark Thriller of Tragic Love During War. Author: Rich DisilvioISBN-10: 0981762573ISBN-13: 9780981762579Publisher: Digital Vista, IncorporatedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/07/2016Pages: 236Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.54d

Villisca, Iowa: In 1912, eight people were murdered in their sleep, marking one of America's most disturbing unsolved crimes. More than a century later, investigator Alex Hartman arrives in town after receiving an unsigned letter that simply says: Come. It's time someone took a...

Off the northern coast of Venezuela, in the late 1600s, a pirate ship sinks in a storm, its treasure lost and its crew forgotten. Centuries later, a cement freighter sinks under mysterious circumstances in the same waters.Marine researchers Chris Dunn and Ray Salas arrive...

In 1700, fifteen-year-old Johann Sebastian Bach and his schoolmate Georg Erdmann walked 250 miles from their village of Ohrdruf to the northern-German city of Lüneburg to enroll in the St. Michael's Kirche choir school. While many biographers mention this journey, none describes the details.Award-winning...

Some secrets never stay buried...When Jack, a disillusioned Cambridge graduate stuck in a dead-end job, meets the enigmatic Giselle on a train from Paris and she agrees to accompany him to a wedding, he believes he's found the answer to his problems. But things...

The ship rocks violently, and Gemma leans against the door to steady herself, but the figure on the narrow cabin bed doesn't move at all...London, 1859. Nurse Gemma Tate boards the American packet ship the Prince Regent to aid Inspector Sebastian Bell in investigating...

"A solid gold, suspenseful, immersive and intriguing story."--Lee Child"One of the most enjoyable novels I've read in ages . . . utterly distinctive and totally addictive."--Paula Hawkins"The gift of The Impossible Thing is the pure joy of reading."--Val McDermidFrom the exceptionally original mind of...

In 1878 a teenage Jew, the Hessex Kid, kills an Irish thug in a Five Point's bar fight in front of hundreds of drugged and drunken killers, all members of the Whyo Gang, which controls all crime in Manhattan under the aegis of the...

Uncovering a chilling legacy of the Challenger disaster, a determined investigator confronts a dangerous government cover-up, revealing the dark forces behind advanced weaponry and igniting a powerful message of hope and resistance against nuclear escalation.In Why They Had To Die, Marc Koller finds himself...

Outrunning Hitler is set in Berlin in 1936. The famous young Negro sprinter, Jesse Owens, is heading to the 1936 Berlin Olympics to prove he is the fastest man alive and, in the process, demonstrate the Nazi theories of racial superiority are rubbish-even as...