President Thrillers

Horror author C. Dennis Moore pays homage to the '80s slasher flicks of his youth with this next installment in his Holiday Horrors series. President’s Day is sure to make you rethink that next home improvement project!

Former intelligence officer and one-time instructor at the British Army School of Sniping, Phil Mason is struggling to make ends meet as a private investigator when he's contacted by his former MI5 liaison officer. The overstretched security service needs all the help it can get hunting down members of al-Qaeda terror cells in the UK - and Mason needs the cash. But in the murky intelligence world, nothing is what it seems.

Watergate could have turned out quite differently. In this novel, it does. The story is told by a fictitious White House official who becomes entangled in a web of bribery, blackmail, arson, and espionage. He conspicuously fails to follow his own good advice: Don’t do anything you wouldn’t want to see on the front page of the Washington Post.

De nieuwe standalone van de auteur van De Rode Koningin. Hoe ver ga jij om degene van wie je het meest houdt te redden? De prestigieuze neurochirurg David Evans staat voor een verschrikkelijk dilemma: als zijn volgende patiënt levend van de operatietafel komt, zal zijn eigen dochter sterven door toedoen van een psychopaat. De patiënt in kwestie is niemand minder dan de president van de Verenigde Staten. Evans krijgt 63 uur. In die tijd zal hij een onmogelijke keuze moeten maken die niet alleen zijn eigen leven, maar ook het leven van miljoenen mensen wereldwijd voorgoed kan veranderen.

Senator Jim MacVeagh is proud to serve his country - and his president, Mark Hollenbach, who has a near-spotless reputation as the vibrant, charismatic leader of MacVeagh’s party and the nation. When Hollenbach begins taking MacVeagh into his confidence, the young senator knows his star is on the rise. But then Hollenbach starts summoning MacVeagh in the middle of the night to Camp David. There, the president sits in the dark and rants about his enemies, unfurling insane theories about all the people he says are conspiring against him.

Ex-journalist James Bradford and Brooke Harris, great-granddaughter of Miller Harris, are looking for a secret codex that is found to be intimately linked to their family history and that of the presidents of the United States. Their journey will be punctuated by pitfalls, perpetrated by an occult international organization that will stop at nothing to recover this precious codex, which conceals their manipulations, their history, and, ultimately, their goal: to control, at all costs, the global economy - and especially that of the United States. The stakes: money and power.

Dina McDermott is on top of the world. Attractive and independent at 30, she runs her own business, funded by a generous inheritance. But an explosive chain of events will soon be set into motion—and her perfect life will spin out of control. A journalist with a fearless instinct, Simon Keller believes he’s struck gold when he unearths an unsettling story about former president Graham Hayward, one that started with a secret affair and ended in tragedy. The trail leads Simon to Dina McDermott’s front door—and threatens to expose a parentage that would rock the political world.

James Wong built a billion-dollar software company with his childhood friend, Maria Cortez. He had everything until an ultra-rich investor stole control of his company with a shady contract. How do you fight the rich and powerful? In a video game, he would use a power-up to defeat the villain. Maria tells him there aren't power-ups in real life, but James finds the ultimate power-up: become the president. They must uncover secrets about their company, themselves, and the dark forces aligned against them.

In Lincoln's Bodyguard, an alternative version of American history, President Lincoln is saved from assassination. Though he prophesied his own death - the only way he believed the South would truly surrender - Lincoln never accounted for the heroics of his bodyguard, Joseph Foster. A biracial mix of white and Miami Indian, Joseph makes an enemy of the South by killing John Wilkes Booth and preventing the death of the president.

For more than a year, Heather O'Grainne and her small band of heroes, operating out of Pueblo, Colorado, have struggled to pull the United States back together after it shattered under the impact of the event known as Daybreak. Now they are poised to bring the three or four biggest remaining pieces together, with a real President and Congress, under the full Constitution again. Heather is very close to fulfilling her oath, creating a safe haven for civilization to be reborn. But other forces are rising too.

A loyal Southerner embroiled in John Wilkes Booth’s plot to kill President Lincoln struggles with a dilemma that is tearing him apart. But should he avenge the South as a hero or back out as a coward and avoid an unforgiveable sin? We know about Mary Surratt, “the Conspirator” who helped John Wilkes Booth launch his insane plot to assassinate President Lincoln. But Mary wasn’t the only conspirator in the Surratt family. Her son John is a mere footnote in history, but he was also one of John Wilkes Booth’s most trusted followers.

Why did the United States Government find it necessary to sequester pertinent information about the assassination of President Kennedy all these years (54 years)? Did the U.S. Government leadership fear some catastrophic reaction, by the American people, in the immediate aftermath of the assassination; if the realities of the Kennedy assassination were different from the official findings of the Warren Commission Report?

El carisma político de un joven profesional lo lleva sorpresivamente a la Presidencia de la República. Sus propuestas, sin embargo, son demasiado candorosas como para poder conducirlas a buen fin. Y en medio de una intriga poselectoral enrarecida por la tensión entre el nuevo presidente y la coalición de partidos que lo ha llevado al poder, aparece un misterioso personaje con un proyecto providencial que podría resolver la difícil coyuntura política y económica que aguarda al nuevo gobierno.

Most people think they know what happened on the day President Joseph Reinhard died - few know the truth. Max Brower’s debut novel follows former Secret Service agent Jimmy Chambers (now a CIA reserve officer) as he hunts a preternaturally cunning assassin who has already killed the president of the United States and now plans to duplicate his feat by assassinating the new president.

With help from her friends - the irascible gray cat Pewter, the wise corgi Tee Tucker, and Tally, the exuberant Jack Russell - Sneaky crisscrosses her home state of Virginia hoping to go where no cat since Socks Clinton has gone: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. In the tradition of her heroine, Sojourner Truth, she takes her case to the masses. Journeying from the lair of the red-shouldered hawk to the nest of the tufted titmouse, from a pasture full of curmudgeonly cows to the stately halls of Monticello, the tenacious tiger cat even secures the chattering support of Thomas Jefferson’s mice.

President William Darcy has it all: wealth, intelligence, and the most powerful job in the country. Despite what his friends say, he is not lonely in the White House. He’s not. And he has vowed not to date while he’s in office. Nor is he interested in Elizabeth Bennet. She might be pretty and funny and smart, but her family is nouveau riche and unbearable. Unfortunately, he encounters her everywhere in Washington, DC - making her harder and harder to ignore.

The world is rocked by the sudden death of the president of the United States. Almost as shocking, details soon emerge implicating a member of the White House Ushers Office. The evidence seems overwhelming, and the case is soon declared as open and shut. If only the rest of the world knew how much more was going on behind the scenes. Hear how Chief Usher Bartholomew Winston, a 50-year veteran of the White House, puts together an investigation team that works to uncover the truth, even if that means diving headfirst into some very dangerous, intricate political waters to find it.

The Secret Service can stop terrorists, psychos, and garden variety murderers. But not a widow bent on revenge. It falls to Washington insider David Kelly, a "bird on the ledge", to put the pieces together before it's too late: a president's nefarious agenda...an assassin with issues...and a certain redhead with freckles across the bridge of her nose and legs to there.... But no one, least of all Kelly, can imagine the tenacity and ingenuity of those at work. No one is prepared for the dark agenda under it all.

It’s 2023 and Meghan and Prince Harry are splitting up and the Royal Family are in turmoil. And a catastrophic Brexit is devastating Britain. However, deputy Prime Minister Robert Pelham knows how he can steady the ship of state and turn disaster into triumph. But to succeed he will need the help of the oafish US President who, himself, is obsessed with his own plans for political immortality. The two conspire together to assassinate the UK Prime Minister and overthrow the British monarchy.

The Best President Money Can Buy is a geopolitical thriller, targeted for release prior to the 2024 presidential election. Based upon fact, the book begins with the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority by President Roosevelt in the 1930s. Using this historic event as a starting point, it delves into the development of the US electric power grid from coal to today’s various forms of renewable energy.