If you come after the CIA’s most feared assassin, there’s one cardinal rule: Don’t miss.America is under attack. Thousands lie dead after simultaneous strikes across the country. The day will come to be known as Bloody Monday.Jason Trapp, codename ‘Hangman’, was a covert operative whose feats became the stuff of legend. He was the tip of the spear—the man his country unleashed when all hope was lost.Six months ago, someone sold him out. The Agency listed him as killed in action. He lost everything—and everyone—he held dear.But Trapp’s not that easy to kill. As his country reels from the deadliest terrorist attacks it has ever witnessed, Trapp’s personal vendetta leads him right back to where he started: duty to his country. The violence, the terror, the assassination of his partner… It’s all connected.And now the Hangman is coming for the guilty.⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯"Fans of Ryan, Reacher and Bourne will love betrayed CIA operative Jason Trapp, who stars in a pulse-pounding revenge thriller in 2019's breakout hit."Note: Dark State was previously published as Deep State. Read more

Montana, USA When Lance Spector quit the CIA, he swore he was out for good. One more government lie and he would go off the deep end. They could find someone else to do their dirty work. As far as he was concerned, Washington, Langley, the Pentagon could all go to hell.Yekaterinburg, Russia A secret Russian expedition returns with a devastating new pathogen, harvested from the frozen corpses of mammoths. It's the biological super weapon they've been looking for, an apocalypse-level pathogen, a virus more deadly than anything ever to come out of a Russian lab. Something that will stop NATO and the Americans in their tracks.A Biological Chernobyl.Washington DC, USA A mysterious vial, sealed in a titanium case, arrives at CIA headquarters. They have no idea who sent it, but it comes with a note."I will only speak to Lance Spector." The Asset by Saul Herzog is a stunning new thriller, a spectacular tour de force, a book that has single-handedly taken the publishing industry, and Hollywood rights departments, by storm. This dazzling debut kicks off the jaw-dropping new Lance Spector series, and sets the stage for a franchise that's on track to break all records. From the mind of one of the most creative and versatile writers working in America today, this book will go down as a classic of the spy thriller genre.If you read only one book this year, this is it. Action, adventure, rebellion, provocative foreign agents, characters you can sink your teeth into. If you're looking for a new spy thriller series that will stay with you long after you turn the last page, look no further.Recommended for fans of Lee Child's Jack Reacher, Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp, Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne, and Brad Thor's Scot Harvath. Read more

They say revenge is a dish best served cold.But Jason Trapp is losing his taste for it. For six months, his personal crusade has taken him around the world, mopping up the last of the Bloody Monday conspirators. There's only one left, and after the crooked financier Emmanuel Alstyne meets his maker, Trapp's debt will be paid in full. He vows he's done with the business of death.Unfortunately, it isn't done with him.After a simple kill mission goes sideways in Macau, leaving a CIA spy kidnapped, half a dozen Chinese agents dead, and America's satellites burning in the skies, Trapp is propelled back into the game. Eliza Ikeda was taken on his watch, and he's determined to get her back–no matter the cost. The problem is, he has no idea who took her, why, or what they plan to do next.Trapp knows he's being played. And with the world's only two superpowers hurtling toward the precipice of war, time is running out...Retirement will have to wait.Trapp is back in action. And this time, it's personal.⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯"Fans of Ryan, Reacher and Bourne will love betrayed CIA operative Jason Trapp, who stars in a pulse-pounding revenge thriller that threatens to be 2019's breakout hit." Read more

Jason Drake isn't just ex-CIA.He's a wanted man.And now he's the world's last hope to stop a world war. A weapon equivalent to a small nuclear bomb is missing.Not one intelligence agency in the world has a lead.Everyone who gets close to the truth ends up dead.With no one to trust at the Agency and knowing that time is of the essence, CIA Station Chief Kate Price turns to the only man she knows she can trust: disgraced covert operative and former assassin Jason Drake.The problem? Drake is a wanted man.What follows is a globe-trotting thriller ripped straight from the headlines. It's a story of intrigue, non-stop action, friends turned enemies, and betrayal.The Assassin's Betrayal kicks off one of the most full-throttle CIA assassin series to hit bookstores in decades. It was created from the ground up to fill the space between Jason Bourne and Mitch Rapp.This series of espionage thrillers is ready to shake you to the core and keep you reading late into the night. Auston's primary goal is to share stories that entertain, provoke, and leave you wanting more.Are you ready to read the best thriller novel of 2023? Read more

Sometimes the past doesn't stay buried...A Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile system takes down a passenger jetliner in the skies over Belarus, showering the fields below in burning scrap. As the world begins to mourn the horrific accident, one man—new CIA director, George Lawrence—knows it is anything but.Three hundred innocents were sacrificed in order to snuff out the life of one man: Professor Alexey Sokolov, a senior adviser to the Russian government. As well as a CIA asset recruited by a ghost known as the Hangman...Trapp doesn't know any of this. He's hundreds of miles away in rural Tuscany with Eliza Ikeda, and on a mission of his own: recovery. Both are hurting, but this is their chance at a real life. Together.But it doesn't take long for trouble to arrive at their door. He should have known that his past wouldn't let go that easily. The question is: why did Sokolov run? How did the Russians discover who he truly was—and what secret could possibly justify the murder of three hundred innocent men, women and children to cover up?Trapp doesn't want to know. But he sure as hell intends to find out...⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯Fans of Ryan, Reacher and Bourne will love betrayed CIA operative Jason Trapp, who stars in a pulse-pounding revenge thriller that threatens to be 2019's breakout hit." Read more

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Spies are like rats. In DC, you're never more than ten feet from one.Jason Trapp is about to find that out the hard way. All he wanted was a week off, but the world had other plans. Trapp stumbles onto something he wasn't meant to see, and when half a dozen top US officials are murdered by drug cartel sicarios, the reason becomes sickeningly clear.Within days, Mexico is on the brink of civil war, and the violence is spilling across the US border. The drug cartels are at war, innocent people are dying, and the President needs options. Trapp soon realizes there's more to this than meets the eye.Someone out there planned this.He may not have started it. But he intends to finish it._____________________________________________The Apparatus is the fifth book in Jack Slater's best-selling Jason Trapp CIA thriller series. It sees the return of fan favorite operative Eliza Ikeda, and the introduction of a shadowy global organization that will prove Trapp's stiffest test yet... Read more

Sometimes it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.Siberia in April isn't in any tourist guidebook. But that is where Trapp finds himself. It's cold, dark, and the vodka tastes like gasoline.After brawling with half a dozen corrupt Russian cops, he's taken to the infamous penal colony marked on maps as IK-29, but known to inmates as the Black Eagle. The guards are brutes, their prisoners little better than animals. It's hell on earth.And this time, he's on his own. The Agency has no knowledge of his mission. They wouldn't back him if they did. Because men like Trapp are tools. They aren't supposed to get ideas of their own.It's dangerous when they do. Read more

Jason Drake was the CIA’s most lethal operative.Now he’s a ghost—working in the shadows for the enemy.Because if he doesn’t follow their orders, his daughter dies.Held under the Kremlin’s thumb, Drake is forced to eliminate political targets across Europe—each kill bringing the Russian president one step closer to rebuilding the Soviet empire.The CIA suspects something is coming.But they don’t know who’s behind it.And they have no idea their former agent is at the center of it all.The Assassin’s Daughter is a taut, high-stakes thriller about control, sacrifice, and the line between duty and survival. The only thing more dangerous than a man with nothing to lose… is one being forced to play for the wrong side.This series of espionage thrillers is ready to shake you to the core and keep you reading late into the night. Auston's primary goal is to share stories that entertain, provoke, and leave you wanting more.Are you ready to read the best thriller novel of 2025? Read more

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One last case. One final gamble. Joe Hennessy is all in. Desperate to save his vineyard from financial collapse, criminal defense attorney Joe Hennessy agrees to defend Bernard Palin, an accountant accused of embezzling millions of dollars from a children’s charity—a shameful and scandalous crime.Promised a hefty payday that could fund his retirement, Hennessy dives into the case, fighting against corrupt law enforcement, hardened criminals, and shadowy powerbrokers. Unraveling decades of corruption, deceit, and betrayals, Hennessy risks everything to win the case for his client.As the case progresses to trial, Hennessy must outmaneuver those determined to bury the evidence. But to expose the truth, to win the case for his client, Joe Hennessy must risk everything he loves… Read more

Former FBI director James Comey takes readers into the world of high finance and corporate espionage in this riveting thriller.A red canoe sits abandoned on Seymour Rock, right where the Saugatuck River hits the Long Island Sound. The elegantly dressed corpse of a woman lies inside….It’s been two years since Nora Carleton left the job she loved at the US Attorney’s Office to become lead counsel at Saugatuck Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund. The career change also meant a change of scenery, relocating her to Westport, Connecticut, fifty miles north of New York City. But it was worth it to get her daughter, Sophie, away from the city. Plus, she likes the people she works with. Especially Helen, who recruited Nora because of her skills as an investigator.Then Nora's new life falls apart when a coworker is murdered and she becomes the lead suspect. Nora calls in her old colleagues from the US Attorney’s Office, Mafia investigator Benny Dugan and attorney Carmen Garcia. To clear Nora’s name, Benny and Carmen hunt for the true killer's motive, but it seems nearly everyone at Saugatuck has secrets worth killing for. As Benny sets out to interrogate her colleagues, Nora examines her history with the company to determine who set her up to take the fall.A suspenseful and intriguing tale of high finance and murder, Westport features the characters first introduced in James Comey’s debut novel Central Park West but can also be read on its own. It further establishes Comey as “a bold new talent in the mystery genre” (Harlan Coben). Read more

Afghanistan, 2022.You can check out any time you want.But you can never leave.Two decades ago, the United States invaded Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to fumigate a rat's nest of international terrorists. And then it left.Now the Taliban are teetering on the edge of a fresh civil war, and a new breed of militants is growing out of the fertile ground of chaos. One group makes the Taliban regime look like kindergarten teachers by comparison. It's known as Islamic State Khorasan. Brutal, violent, and bent on using the failed state of Afghanistan as a launching pad for global mayhem.If there's one thing Trapp has learned, it's the more things change, the more they stay the same. IS-K has to be stopped.The problem is, not everybody agrees... Read more

Men who were supposed to die tell the best tales.After years in the shadows, former black ops agent Brady Hawk finally has the quiet family life he's always wanted on a Montana ranch. But when the ex-CIA chief shows up unannounced, Hawk's newfound peace explodes.A friend in grave danger. A perilous mission in enemy territory. Hawk has no choice but to accept the assignment rescuing a Navy SEAL stranded deep in Siberia.Inserting himself behind enemy lines, Hawk enters a high-stakes game of cat and mouse with ruthless FSB assassins. But the further he goes, the more Hawk realizes the rescue wasn't what it seemed—and something far more sinister lurks beneath the surface.With the clock ticking and temperatures plummeting, Hawk battles white-knuckle terrain and becomes the hunted target of another enemy as he unravels a covert conspiracy that strikes at the heart of Russia's power.To save millions of innocent lives, his own SEAL brother, and prevent the outbreak of war, Hawk must defeat the extreme Arctic wilderness and outwit the enemy in a lethal game of shadows.And slipping away into the night is not an option.Fans of Brad Thor, Brad Taylor, Vince Flynn, and Robert Ludlum are sure to enjoy this exciting new thriller from R.J. Patterson.What other readers are saying:★★★★★ "Reminiscent of the original Bourne books by Robert Ludlum, but with a sprinkling of the relationship of David Baldacci's King and Maxwell.”★★★★★ “R.J. Patterson is up there with Baldacci.”★★★★★ “First Strike delivers excitement, intrigue and action from the first page to the last.”★★★★★ “This story was imaginative, but certainly came across as realistic.”★★★★★ “This is a first rate action thriller!”★★★★★ “If you are looking for some adrenalin packed action, don’t think twice, just grab a copy and start reading, you won’t be sorry.”★★★★★ “A well crafted page turner.”★★★★★ “Brady hawk is the next Jack Reacher!”★★★★★ “Another great book by R.J. Patterson! I liked that way he makes his characters so real.”★★★★★ “This book is in the vein of Brad Thor and Vince Flynn with a bit of Ian Flemming.”★★★★★ “R.J. Patterson's short chapters and fast moving plot render this novel impossible to put down.” Read more

The President is shot.The assassin gets away.Jason Drake is the lone suspect.And now he has hours to prove his innocence.To uncover the truth about the Inauguration Day Attack, Jason Drake must rely on old friends.He also must come face-to-face with his violent past and with the men who call him a 'brother.'The closer he gets to the truth, the more perilous the situation seems to be.Someone is pulling the strings, playing the world like's it some game.Nothing is as it seems.The Assassin's Game is the second entry in what is one of the most full-throttle CIA assassin series to hit bookstores in decades. It has been created from the ground up to fill the space between Jason Bourne and Mitch Rapp. The extensive series will see one new novel every four months.Auston King is an avid reader, who has consumed every Tom Clancy, Brad Thor, Lee Child, Vince Flynn and Robert Ludlum book he could get his hands on and he wants to share stories that entertain, provoke, and leave you wanting more. Read more

Latvian Border Region A policewoman finds something terrifying.Deep in the forests along the border, there is proof of a massive Russian invasion plan.US Embassy, Berlin Someone is trying desperately to get a message to the CIA.But Kremlin assassins have been activated across three countries to stop them.New York, USA A Kremlin sleeper agent is activated with very precise instructions.The Kremlin has set its plan in motion. Its goal is nothing short of the reestablishment of the USSR, and it is willing to risk World War Three in the process.There is only one man who can stop it.But this mission could cost him his life.The Target by Saul Herzog is the stunning third instalment in the series that has single-handedly taken the publishing industry, and Hollywood rights departments, by storm. This dazzling tour de force kicks off right where the second book ended. From the mind of one of the most creative and versatile writers working in America today, this book will surely go down as a classic of the spy thriller genre.If you read only one book this year, this is it. Action, adventure, rebellion, provocative foreign agents, characters you can sink your teeth into. If you're looking for a new spy thriller series that will stay with you long after you turn the last page, look no further.Recommended for fans of Lee Child's Jack Reacher, Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp, Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne, and Brad Thor's Scot Harvath. Read more

Jason Drake has been given a painful ultimatum.Either co-operate or lose the only chance he has of finding out what happened to his daughterThe stakes are higher and more personal than ever.The Assassin's Ultimatum is the spy thriller you've been waiting for. It's full of non-stop action and the twists and turns never stop. Every page is exciting and dripping with suspense.It continues the series many have called the best thing since Jason Bourne.The Assassin's Ultimatum is the fourth entry in what is one of the most full-throttle CIA assassin series to hit bookstores in decades. It has been created from the ground up to fill the space between Jason Bourne and Mitch Rapp. The extensive series will see one new novel every four months.Auston King is an avid reader, who has consumed every Tom Clancy, Brad Thor, Lee Child, Vince Flynn and Robert Ludlum book he could get his hands on and he wants to share stories that entertain, provoke, and leave you wanting more. Read more

The trial of the century has arrived. After twenty years of anguish, after twenty years of pain, defense attorney Joe Hennessy has the chance to confront the man who ordered the murder of his ten-year-old son.In Charleston, South Carolina, Hennessy uncovers evidence that Senator Richard Longhouse has links to his son’s unsolved murder.Desperate to know the truth, Hennessy digs deep into the past, following the evidence trail into the criminal underworld. Clashing with corrupt cops, dishonest politicians, and ruthless felons, Hennessy uncovers information that has been buried for twenty years.But to find justice, to finally expose the truth, Joe Hennessy must risk everything he loves... Read more

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