Tom Barber

A commercial plane carrying almost two hundred people crashes into the Atlantic Ocean. Eyewitnesses on a yacht say the flight, bound for the United States from Portugal, was on fire as it fell from the sky. The search is on to find the wreckage....

It's New Year's Eve. A major terrorist cell is planning a series of attacks across London over the next 48 hours....

A federal manhunt is underway. A sniper has killed three people in three different cities during the last 72 hours and he's gone to ground somewhere in Washington, DC....

Alone in an apartment in New York City, a frightened young woman is packing her bags in a hurry. The only two other people in the vicinity are NYPD Detectives Sam Archer and Alice Vargas....

NYPD Detective Sam Archer is on his way home on a Sunday afternoon in New York City. He's been out of the field for three months but has just been cleared to return to duty....

NYPD Third Grade Detective Sam Archer and Alice Vargas are working in the NYPD Counter-Terrorism Bureau and also living together....

New York City. Summer. A series of violent and highly successful bank robberies have been carried out across the city, all by the same five-man team....

On a cold December morning in New York City, a man is found dead in Central Park. There are no knife or gunshot wounds to his body and no signs of violence....

In the year 2113, US 101st Airborne Corporal Will Miller regains consciousness inside a vessel that has crashed on its journey home. Everyone around him is dead....

Young counterterrorist cop Sam Archer arrives for work at the Armed Response Unit expecting a quiet day....

It’s early July and across the United States, people are preparing for the Independence Day holiday. Millions of children are on summer break. One of them is Isabel Vargas. At a fair on Long Island, New York, Isabel avoids death by a millimeter when a knife buries itself into a wall behind her.

On one of the hottest nights ever recorded in New York City, two major events take place: a city-wide power outage, and a woman is shot dead in an empty pool in Astoria Park. She’s a fellow NYPD detective and close friend of Sam Archer....