A couple of months ago, the human species passed an ominous milestone that had long been anticipated by thriller writers: the first genetically modified babies were born. What’s more, it happened in exactly the way that many authors (including me) had predicted. A rogue researcher violated a worldwide ban on the genetic redesigning of humans,…
In The Coming Storm by Mark Alpert, America is on the brink of collapse and devastated by a brutal government trying to silence its citizens. Crime fiction often explores the reasons why people break the laws that govern human behavior. What would happen though if science changed the definition of what it meant to be…
The Coming Storm by Mark Alpert is an action-packed thriller where America is on the brink of collapse, devastated by a brutal government trying to silence its citizens. New York City, 2023: Rising seas and superstorms have ravaged the land. Food and electricity are scarce. A dangerous Washington regime has terrorized the city, forcing the most…
The Orion Plan by Mark Alpert is an extraterrestrial thriller that sees an alien species find a way to send a probe across hundreds of light-years to begin the process of colonizing Earth unless NASA scientist Sarah Pooley and her team can stop them (Available February 16, 2016). Scientists thought that Earth was safe from…
My fifteen-year-old son is reading Ernest Hemingway’s Nick Adams stories for his high-school English class. He started with “Indian Camp,” the story in which Nick and his father leave their summer cottage in the Michigan woods and row across Walloon Lake to help a Native American woman give birth. My son could easily picture their…
The Furies, a thriller by Mark Alpert, introduces us to a family like any other, with the exception of a genetic mutation that they've been forced to hide from the world for hundreds of years (available April 22, 2014). They Walk Among Us! Nothing is more chilling than hearing those words. Whether they are supernatural,…
Before tonight’s International Thriller Awards (which we’ll live-tweet @crimehq), we thought we’d rush to share some collected pix. This is only a small, very unscientific sampling of the thriller authors present. We jumped in early before the rest of the signing hour crowds, but didn’t want to flash anyone in the face or rudely interrupt…
