Nuclear Thrillers

So we're all still here?  Phew! With North Korea threatening the world with nuclear disaster, what could set our minds at ease better than reading fictional scenarios of what this could bring!  OK, so maybe it won't exactly be comforting but it will keep your attention.  Here are a few titles to get you started.







The Devil's Light by Richard North Patterson 

Sidelined after a colleague's blunder, CIA agent Brooke Chandler envisions a way to halt an Al Qaeda plot to set off a massive nuclear explosion and begins a race against time that returns him to Lebanon, where nothing is quite as it seems.

Trader_of_secrets by Steve Martini
While in Paris to find a former NASA employee whose name has been found on papers left in his nemesis's apartment, Paul Madriani stumbles upon a plot to harness the destructive forces of nature using stolen technology.

The Second Horseman by Kyle Mills
Imprisoned for a robbery he did not commit, Brandon Vale is broken out of prison by Richard Scanlon, the former FBI agent who framed Vale and wants his help in preventing a Ukranian crime organization from auctioning off nuclear warheads.

The Ezekiel Option by Joel Rosenberg
With the historic peace accord between the Israelis and Palestinians, the Middle East seems to be on a path to peace, until an increasingly powerful Russian dictator and a growing nuclear threat from Iran threaten a global apocalypse.

Assured Response by Joe Weber
Confronted by deadly terrorists who will stop at nothing in their quest to annihilate the United States, President Cord Macklin sends two top-secret operatives on a mission to stop a nuclear holocaust.