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Thrillers

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Definition of "Thriller Genre": The thriller genre is very broad and can be difficult to define.  However, the focus of a thriller ebook is typically on action, danger and suspense.  The genre can be broken into an almost infinite number of sub-genres, including action thrillers (think Clive Cussler ebooks), romance thrillers, psychological thrillers (think Psycho by Hitchcock), science fiction thrillers, and spy thrillers, just to name a few.  Common elements can include car chases, gun shoot outs, explosions, or in the case of psychological thrillers, the elements of danger can be related to the mental manipulation of characters by other characters.  It is an expansive genre, and one of the most popular at eBookHounds.

 

Some examples of the best thriller authors and ebooks of all time: Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code), Robert Ludlum (The Bourne Identity), Michael Crichton (The Andromeda Strain), John Grisham (Time to Kill), John D. MacDonald (Cape Fear); James Patterson (Kiss the Girls).  As you can see, ebooks in the thriller category vary widely in their substance, and the sub-genres can almost be considered genres of their own!

Flowers From Berlin - The Classic American Spy Novel (25th Anniversary Edition)

by Noel Hynd

MORE THAN 1,000,000 COPIES IN PRINT OR DOWNLOADED!

Trade Paperback available also, only through Amazon..

Perhaps the greatest American spy novel! Ever!

International Best Seller. Rights sold in UK and Japan. Spanish and French language editions coming in 2014.

The classic American spy novel, from the author of, "False Flags: Betrayal in London," "The Sandler Inquiry: A Spy in New York" and "Payback in Panama."

Noel Hynd is (a few notches above the Ludlums and Clancys of the world." - Booklist

Love and betrayal, spies and patriots, murder and romance, Roosevelt versus Hitler on the eve of World War Two. "Winds of War" meets "The Eye of The Needle."

This espionage thriller follows FBI agent William Cochrane's efforts to stop a Nazi spy from assassinating FDR. Toss in a love affair with a British Secret Service operative and you have the makings of a page-turner. LJ's reviewer found the book "complex in characterization, crisp in dialogue, and thorough in its background" (LJ 3/15/85).

"First rate!" - The Cleveland Plain-Dealer

"A Chiller!" - Los Angeles Times

"A Super spy novel!" The Savannah News-Presse


It is 1939. Roosevelt is winding down his second term in the White House. The Nazis have taken Austria, and Stalin’s Red Army is systematically eliminating the Kremlin’s enemies. Europe is going to hell in a handbasket. With isolationist sentiment running high in America, and the president’s popularity at an all-time low, Hitler seizes the moment and dispatches his secret weapon: An agent named 'Siegfried' who conceals himself behind the mask of middle-class America. A chameleon who can change identities and personalities at will. A cold-blooded killer who will win the war for Germany.

A banker, linguist, and demolitions expert who has successfully infiltrated German intelligence, FBI Special Agent Thomas Cochrane is handpicked by Roosevelt for an impossible mission: To find Hitler’s spy before he carries out a plan that will remove the president from office at a critical moment in the century’s history. As Cochrane, with the help of British Intelligence agent Laura Worthington, circles closer to his elusive quarry, a spy with supporters in the highest levels of U.S. government readies the world stage for a final act of annihilation that will alter the tide of war--and the future of the free world--in unthinkable ways.

Imagine a world where your most precious inalienable rights are denied. Where individual freedom is a thing of the past. Imagine World War II without FDR ...

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JET

by Russell Blake

Code name: Jet

Twenty-eight-year-old Jet was once the Mossad's most lethal operative before faking her own death and burying that identity forever.

But the past doesn't give up on its secrets easily.

When her new life on a tranquil island is shattered by a brutal attack, Jet must return to a clandestine existence of savagery and deception to save herself and those she loves. A gritty, unflinching roller-coaster of high-stakes twists and shocking turns, JET features a new breed of protagonist that breaks the mold.

Fans of Lisbeth Salander, SALT, and the Bourne trilogy will find themselves carried along at Lamborghini speed to a conclusion as jarring and surprising as the story's heroine is unconventional.

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Fractured Eden

by Steven Gossington

When a doctor loses everything and is forced to start over, he finds himself in a strange town filled with addiction and mental illness. Dr. Aaron Rovsing, Family Practice Physician, is fired from his medical practice in Connecticut because of alleged incompetence. After he flees and starts over in a town in East Texas, he discovers that things are not as they first appear, and soon Aaron must combat the deranged and addicted minds of the townspeople. Events take an even deadlier turn when he finds himself the next chosen victim of a serial killer who plans to add the doctor to his collection of skeletons. In this town of insanity and with a serial killer waiting to strike, how can Aaron manage to stay sane . . . and alive?

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Bloodridge (Spies Lie Book 1)

by DS Kane

To find justice for those he loved, a man finds himself at the center of a dangerous global conspiracy…

When Jon Sommers finds out his fiancé Lisa Gabriel died in a terrorist bomb attack, he is visited by spymaster, Yigdal Ben-Levy, who throws Jon’s life into chaos, when he tells him that Lisa was not a fellow graduate student but a Mossad spy sent to bring him to Israel. Ben-Levy convinces Jon to seek justice for Lisa’s murder by joining Mossad and going after Tariq Houmaz, her killer.

Shortly after training, Jon’s entire new team is executed by the bomb maker, who murdered Lisa, and only Jon escapes the massacre. As he leaves the scene, Jon finds himself captured, threatened and turned into a double agent for MI-6. When his Mossad handler, Ben-Levy learns this, he wants Jon dead as an example to other Israeli coverts.

If being a hunted double agent isn’t enough, Jon comes across information in his spying for MI-6 that suggests Israel is in impending danger from Houmaz. To stop this catastrophe, Jon must put together his own team, one he can trust with his life. Can Jon bring justice to Lisa's murderer, or will millions of lives be lost?

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Sin & Bone: A Medical Thriller (The Gina Mazzio Series Book 2)

by Lamb

The SECOND fast-paced medical thriller in The Gina Mazzio Series.
STOP ME BEFORE I KILL AGAIN
That’s the plea RN Gina Mazzio hears when she gets an anonymous call the night before her wedding. The cops say it’s a crank call. Her fiancé says she’s altar-shy. Her fellow workers call her “crazy.”

But Gina has a bad feeling…

Then two of her fellow nurses at San Francisco’s Ridgewood Hospital go missing. Instead of a honeymoon, Gina's plunged into the dark world of the black market trade in human body parts. This is not a medical thriller for the faint-hearted.

When a third nurse, Gina’s redheaded friend Megan Ann Hendricks, fails to show up at work after a date with a charismatic pharmaceutical salesman, Gina’s suspicions begin to dovetail with those of SFPD's Inspector Pepper Yee.

Gina ends up a kidnap victim offered up to a serial killer with extremely grisly propensities—and a lucrative sideline in black market body parts. Should we say it again? Don’t come near this fast-paced medical mystery if you're the least bit squeamish!

Fans of hard-boiled medical thrillers will love it, though, as will lovers of serial killer fiction, strong women sleuths, hospital mysteries, and all medical fiction. Think Tess Gerritsen, Carolyn McCray, Eileen Dreyer, and Robin Cook. It should delight devotees of Patricia Cornwell too.

“SIN & BONE is a chilling, gripping thriller by a talented writing couple.” -Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini, MWA Grand masters

 

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Man of God

by Gregg Bell

Once he was a gentle soul, a man of peace, but after thirty years of ministering in his gang-infested Chicago neighborhood, Reverend John Archer fantasizes about killing gang members. He fights the sinful thoughts, but the fact of the matter is turning the other cheek hasn’t worked—the gangs are winning. Still, not in the best of health and only a week from retirement, Archer feels if he can hang on, he’ll have fulfilled his duty to God and man. That’s when he looks out the church window and sees a young boy shot in the head. He rushes to the police station and gives a sworn statement. Only when it’s too late does he find out that the gang leader he identified is known for butchering witnesses—and their families.

Archer scrambles to protect his wife and two children, but before he can, a gang member abducts him and drives him to a fleabag motel outside city limits. Archer prays desperately and believes he hears from God, but the answer surprises—the gang member, Billy, is sick of the gang leader’s brutality too. Even more surprising, Billy’s heart seems to be softening, while Archer’s is hardening. The odd pair form an uneasy alliance and together come up with a desperate plan—an ungodly one. The way of the Lord is to love thy enemy, but the way of the hood is to kill or be killed. With his family in mortal danger, Archer must decide between trusting the laws of God or the laws of the street.

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Deadly Messengers: A Psychological Thriller

by Susan May

THREE MASSACRES. TWO DETECTIVES. ONE WRITER.  ZERO ANSWERS.

 
Discover the book reviewers are calling a terrifying, impossible-to-put-down thriller by the author readers have named the next Stephen King.
 

Freelance journalist Kendall normally writes fluff magazine pieces, until she scores an interview with a survivor of a horrific mass killing. Suddenly she's the go-to reporter for the chilling crime: seven people brutally murdered with an axe and the killer dead at the scene.
 
Then another mass killing occurs. This time arson, and ten eldercare facility residents die in the blaze. Then it happens again. A mother with a gun embarks on a rampage at a family birthday party. All killers die before they can be interviewed.
 
Investigating detective O'Grady wonders how evil can strike three times in only weeks. The crimes are far too coincidental. Yet the killers share only one common detail: none has a murderer's profile. No history of violence. No connection to terrorists. No vendettas. Ordinary citizens suddenly just became ruthless killers.
 
When Kendall crosses O'Grady's path sparks fly. And not the good kind. She reminds him of a past he wants to forget. While she can't understand the detective's open hostility toward her. Not to mention, he's standing in the way of a rent-paying story she desperately needs.
 
They will discover these killings form part of a plan far greater than just these crimes. A message is being sent and if the meaning is not deciphered soon more will die.

INCLUDES BONUS:
  • Short Story The War Veteran
  • Seven chapters from Susan May's latest release The Troubles Keeper

WHAT READERS ARE SAYING:
"Compelling and masterfully written." Anne Frasier NY Times bestselling author
 
"From the very first chapter you know you're in the hands of a real written." Sarah Kernochan, Best-selling author & Academy Award Winning Screenwriter

"Compelling off the first page. You can feel the pulse!" Caroline Kepnes, NY Times Best Selling author of 'YOU'
 
 

A riveting thriller... highly recommend to every mystery thriller fan." Suspense Magazine

 

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Undressed To The Nines: A Thriller Novel (Drew Stirling Book 1)

by Jayden Hunter

When supermodel Drew Stirling discovers a secret that puts her life in danger, she must decide who she can trust in this debut psychological thriller.

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Concrete Chaos

by Michael-Scott Earle

World renowned motorcycle racing champion Sue Zay is no stranger to risk. Armed with a quick wit and a foul mouth, she's ridden her ancient superbike to the ends of the globe in an eternal quest for speed. But even after countless race victories and a flawless performance at her elite university, Sue Zay hasn't earned what she truly craves: the elusive praise of her tech magnate mother.

A chance encounter with a gorgeous stranger turns into a blood bath, and a deadly terrorist group intends to kill millions of innocents. Now half of Silicon Valley wants to put a bullet in Sue Zay's pretty head, and the other half wants to put their... in her... well- you get the idea.

Sue Zay, her trusty motorcycle, and her irritatingly responsible AI buddy will have to race faster than ever to uncover the truth about the deadly organization that threatens, not just Silicon Valley, but the entire world.

Concrete Chaos is a fast-paced, edge-of-your-seat Sci-fi, action-adventure with a twist of Cyberpunk. Read it now!

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The Doodlebug War: a Tale of Fanatics and Romantics (Frank Adversego Thrillers Book 3)

by Andrew Updegrove

The time is the immediate future, and the Caliphate is the enemy in the third Frank Adversego Thriller. Mullah Muhammed Foobar, the mysterious leader of a post-ISIS terrorist organization, has won control of much of the Mid East. Now he threatens to launch a horrific attack that will bring the United States and Europe to their knees.

But How? The CIA turns to cybersecurity super sleuth Frank Adversego to find the answer. In a race against time, Frank must overcome personal as well as cyber trials to save the Western world from destruction. When he does, he discovers an all-too-real vulnerability that may lead to our own downfall – not at some theoretical point in the future, but as soon as tomorrow.

In the words of “world’s greatest hacker” Kevin Mitnick:

"Andrew Updegrove has done it again - delivered an impossible to put down thriller while exposing a dire cyber vulnerability that until now has gone unnoticed."

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The Cain Conspiracy (The Cain Series Book 1)

by Mike Ryan

Shot in the head and recovering from brain surgery, Delta Force soldier Thomas Nelson wakes up in a military hospital unable to remember who he is. Faced with going through recovery alone, with no family that he's aware of, he is recruited by a top secret government agency. Project Specter is tasked with eliminating targets they deem to be a threat to the United States. Their goal is to turn Nelson into a super assassin named Matthew Cain.

Cain's first mission is supposed to be a piece of cake. Just take out an escaped fugitive in Honduras who's on the run for the rape and murder of a little girl in New York. There's only one problem...somebody beat him to it. Everything is not what it seems as Cain gets mixed up with an international arms dealer and an ex government agent who's gone rogue and supposed to be dead.

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The Shadow Chronicles, Part 1 (Two-Book Collection: Shadow Lurker, Dark Works)

by Jason Cunningham

A stroke of paint above the door means you've been marked. So whatever happens, don't peek out the windows after sundown. If you hear wind chimes on a clear night and the street light above your stoop crackles, run for the hills. The One Who Lurks in the Shadows has found you, and you are not safe.

Levi, a former celebrity in search of a simple life, finds himself at the center of an ancient conflict with no allies other than an underground comic book with clues hidden in its pages. He soon runs into Violet, a nineteen-year-old pickpocket with a mean streak. Together, they unravel a dark mystery that threatens their city... and time is running out.

THE SHADOW CHRONICLES (formerly The Lamp Series) contains adult language and moments of high tension. If you are averse to either, please do not proceed.

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Mystery: The Grave Man - A Sam Prichard Mystery Thriller

by David Archer

USA TODAY & AMAZON #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR • ONE OF THE BEST NEW VOICES IN THE ACTION THRILLER GENRE • With over 250,000 books sold, and well over 1,000 five star reviews on Amazon, the Sam Prichard series is quickly storming the charts. David Archer's ability to create exciting, page-turning, action and suspense is second to none. Fans can't get enough of it, but don't take my word for it though. See what all the fuss is about before Archer becomes a household name!
 

What would you do if your child went missing?...


Meet retired cop, Sam Prichard.

Sam Prichard was a cop, and a good one, until the bullets took out the joint of his right hip. Now he's trying to learn to live without being a cop, and getting to know his neighbors, learning to walk again and even ride a motorcycle. Life is bearable, barely, but then he gets asked to find a missing child, and the lure of getting back into some kind of police work is too much for him to resist. When he teams up with computer whiz Indiana Perkins, he suddenly becomes one of the best investigators he's ever even known.

Now, he's found the missing child, but it's thrown him right into the middle of something that may be a drug war--or could be a chance to stop the next 911! There's no way out for Sam, so he's in for the ride of his life, but when the girl he's becoming fond of is suddenly drawn into the line of fire with her own little daughter, Sam is ready to forget all the rules and do whatever is necessary to win the day.

 

 

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Cold River Rising (Cold River Series, Book 1)

by Enes Smith

WE ARE WARRIORS ONCE AGAIN. WE ARE THE PEOPLE.

This #1 Amazon best seller is the Native-American cop thriller for which the phrase “totally off the Rez” was invented!

"Smith is a writer on his way straight up."—Ann Rule, author of over thirty crime novels, including The Stranger Beside Me and Small Sacrifices

Three weeks into his new post as tribal police chief on the Cold River Indian Reservation of Oregon, retired Portland homicide detective Martin Andrews is already wondering, What the hell am I doing here? Then what he thought would be a laid-back retirement gig kicks up into an action-filled international kidnapping thriller, and he gets a crash course in modern warfareIndian style.

The Šiyàpu (white man) tribal police chief is still struggling to understand a new culture and the people he serves, when Chairman Bluefeathers’ granddaughter, along with other students and their professor on a study trip, is kidnapped by the Shining Path in the mountains of central Peru. The State Department not only refuses to help, but places the students in further danger from the local police and secret police, in addition to the already-present threat from the rebels and the Peruvian and United States armies.

As leader of the sovereign nation of Cold River, Bluefeathers declares war on Peru (yeah, you read that right!) and sends Martin to head up a four-person war party to retrieve the students. Crazy old man. (Crazy like a fox.) The chairman shows himself to be a skilled modern statesman and military strategist, and the Cold River Indian Reservation is joined by other Indian tribes in a show of force and solidarity. In the voices of a damaged cop, young Native-Americans learning to walk the path between two cultures, and their wiser elders, Smith weaves a multi-layered story of courage, redemption, sacrifice, death, honor, and a people coming together.

WHO WILL LIKE IT: Fans of Tony Hillerman, Anne Hillerman, Aimee and David Thurlo, and other  Native-American police procedural series, plus anyone who enjoys a fast-faced international thriller.

 

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Crux (The Nexus Trilogy Book 2)

by Ramez Naam

The stunning sequel to NEXUS

Six months have passed since the release of Nexus 5. The world is a different, more dangerous place.

In the United States, the terrorists - or freedom fighters - of the Post-Human Liberation Front use Nexus to turn men and women into human time bombs aimed at the President and his allies. In Washington DC, a government scientist, secretly addicted to Nexus, uncovers more than he wants to know about the forces behind the assassinations, and finds himself in a maze with no way out.

In Thailand, Samantha Cataranes has found peace and contentment with a group of children born with Nexus in their brains. But when forces threaten to tear her new family apart, Sam will stop at absolutely nothing to protect the ones she holds dear.

In Vietnam, Kade and Feng are on the run from bounty hunters seeking the price on Kade's head, from the CIA, and from forces that want to use the back door Kade has built into Nexus 5. Kade knows he must stop the terrorists misusing Nexus before they ignite a global war between human and posthuman. But to do so, he'll need to stay alive and ahead of his pursuers.

And in Shanghai, a posthuman child named Ling Shu will go to dangerous and explosive lengths to free her uploaded mother from the grip of Chinese authorities.

The first blows in the war between human and posthuman have been struck. The world will never be the same.

File Under: Science Fiction [ Upgraded | Closer Than You Think | Upload | Civil War ]

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Saving Baby

by Gregg Bell

Seventeen-year-old Annie Rebarchek is thrilled when industrialist Houston Monroe hires her to look after his baby for the summer. But something’s not right. Monroe’s baby is weak and cries constantly. When Annie confronts Monroe about it, he goes into a rage and tells her to mind her own business. She tells her father but he thinks she’s exaggerating. Annie knows something is suspicious, but what? The next day she discovers something that makes her skin crawl. She nabs the baby and flees.

Now she’s on the run. Her only hope is exposing Monroe’s deadly evil before it’s too late—for her and the baby.

 

 

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Too Close For Comfort (Knight & Culverhouse Book 1)

by Adam Croft

Gritty. Fast-paced. Compelling.


As the newest murder squad recruit for Mildenheath CID, DS Wendy Knight knows that she will face the unthinkable, but what she does not anticipate is that a sadistic killer may be too close for comfort.

When a known prostitute is found dead, Wendy is assigned to the case. Solving it means that she will have to outwit and outsmart an elusive serial killer. As her investigation unfolds, so too does a sinister plot that will turn her world upside down and make it increasingly difficult to distinguish friend from foe in her tightknit world.

Could the murderer be hiding in plain sight?

Will the answers she seeks be more than she can bear?

Too Close for Comfort is a gripping, exhilarating crime thriller for fans of Peter James, Mark Billingham and Iain Rankin.

 

 

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The Perseid Collapse: A Post Apocalyptic/Dystopian EMP Thriller (The Perseid Collapse Series Book 1)

by Steven Konkoly

***Over 500,000 copies in series downloaded***

"A Post Apocalyptic Thriller from a Master..." Amazon reviewer

"Captivating. Loved this series. I stayed glued till the end." Amazon reviewer

THE PERSEID COLLAPSE:

America is on the verge of collapse, in the thrilling post-apocalyptic sequel to international bestseller, The Jakarta Pandemic.

On August 19, 2019, an inconceivable attack against America's infrastructure will unleash a human darkness over the United States--with a vast appetite for chaos and violence. Alex Fletcher, former Marine, will wake to this brutally hostile landscape, thrown headfirst into an epic, impossibly grueling journey to save his family and friends.

"Heart pounding read. Couldn't put it down. So much action right from the very beginning." Amazon reviewer

The Perseid Collapse Books:

The Jakarta Pandemic, Prequel to The Perseid Collapse Series
The Perseid Collapse, Book One
Event Horizon, Book Two
Point of Crisis, Book Three
Dispatches, Book Four

Author's note: The Perseid Collapse is the first book in The Perseid Collapse Series, and chronicles the first 48 hours "post-event," as the characters navigate a hostile landscape to reach their destinations. Event Horizon, book two in the series, picks up where book one ends, completing their arduous trek and unveiling a harsh, new reality for Alex Fletcher.

Now part of The Perseid Collapse Series Kindle World! Read dozens of novellas inspired by the events in The Perseid Collapse books. Go to Amazon's Kindle Worlds today.

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The Dawn's Early Light: A Mike Elliot Novel

by Lee Duffy

When an Islamist revolution erupts in Tunisia, the American embassy staff, and their families, must be evacuated. As sanctuary at last seems possible, a daring and imaginative terrorist plot catches the Americans off guard. A radical Hezbollah terror cell operating in Tunisia takes the Americans hostage. The innocent captives are about to face the most horrifying three days of their lives—one of the hostage-takers is a deranged and brutal psychopath.
Delta Force, the U.S. Army counterterrorist team, deploys to save them, only to encounter a trap set by a legendary and deadly Arab assassin. He plans to massacre Delta’s commandos as they launch their hostage rescue mission. The CIA chief of station in Beirut risks all as he hunts this master assassin, known only as the Scimitar.
One of the American hostages is Major Mike Elliot, an ex-Special Forces operative. Mike Elliot is a man with a dark past, where mistakes he made, cost him dearly. Now, history repeats itself, and he stands to lose all that he has left. He is determined to take matters into his own hands, but he doesn’t know that Delta Force is planning a rescue. Unfortunately, what Mike doesn’t know, could get him and everyone around him, killed.
As the commando’s mission unfolds, Delta’s commander struggles with his own past, and he deliberately disobeys the President of the United States. When dawn at last approaches, and Delta moves in for its long-awaited assault, the Scimitar himself closes in for the ultimate kill. It all comes crashing together in one tumultuous, roller coaster of a collision, and it all happens by the Dawn’s Early Light.

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Plague Year (the Plague Year trilogy Book 1)

by Jeff Carlson

"Rock-hard realistic." -James Rollins
"
Terrifying." -Scott Sigler
"
Riveting." -David Brin

The nanotech was intended to save lives. Instead, it killed five billion people, devouring all warm-blooded lifeforms except on the highest mountain peaks.

The safe line is 10,000 feet. Below, there is only death. Above, there is famine and war. Mankind's final hope rests with a scientist aboard the International Space Station... and with one man in California who gambles everything on a desperate mission into the ruins of the old world...

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