President Thrillers

Shortly after Army lawyer Sean Drummond starts working for the Office of Special Projects, a CIA cell which handles the most dangerous threats, the White House Chief of Staff is found brutally murdered. A note left by the killer promises more victims, including the President.

Matthew Keating, a one-time Navy SEAL—and a past president—has always defended his family as staunchly as he has his country. Now those defenses are under attack. A madman abducts Keating's teenage daughter, Melanie—turning every parent's deepest fear into a matter of national security. As the world watches in real time, Keating embarks on a one-man special-ops mission that tests his strengths: as a leader, a warrior, and a father.

The President-elect of the United States has a double... And he's in the White House. "Breathtaking... more twists and turns than Tom Clancy!"—Chris Ryan ***** President-elect Jack Meade wakes up in a hospital bed after being found near death on a beach. Minutes later, Jack is horrified to see a live TV interview with the man everyone believes is him—and the devastating truth hits him. An imposter has taken his place. The man who will shortly enter the White House represents a terrible danger to the free world. The real Jack Meade must reach Washington and unmask him. But no one ...

The White House is the home of the president of the United States, the most guarded, monitored, closely watched person in the world. So how could a US president vanish without a trace? And why would he choose to do so? An unprecedented collaboration between President Bill Clinton and the world's best-selling novelist, James Patterson, The President Is Missing is a breathtaking story from the pinnacle of power.

How did former Chicago cop Jim McGill become the first PI to live in the White House? He married Patricia Darden Grant, the first woman to become a US president...not long after he solved the murder of her first husband. Winning an election was one thing. Finding work after moving to Washington was another. McGill decided to be his own boss and took out a private investigator's license. That wasn't a politically correct occupation, but then McGill refused to allow himself to be addressed as the First Gentleman. He nicknamed himself The President's Henchman.

19 DAYS BEFORE HIS ASSASSINATION, JFK VANISHED. AMAZON #1 BESTSELLER • READERS FAVORITE BOOK OF THE YEAR NOMINEE • From the international bestselling author of Secrets of Sea Pines and The Disney Riddles comes a gripping historical mystery inspired by the days before President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. In this gripping alternative history thriller, FBI Special Agent Lacie Webb is tasked with finding the missing president. With a conspiracy this deep, everyone is a suspect. As Lacie investigates, allies become enemies, and enemies might be the only ones telling the truth: • The...

“A stellar novel of action, adventure, and intrigue.” —Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author The presumed president-elect has been assassinated. The fate of the United States is at stake. And Detective Jim Murphy of the Chicago PD is to blame. Serving as extra security in a parade for the apparent presidential winner, he succumbs to a moment of distraction. That indelible lapse allows an assassin to take down the president-elect. His shame is made even more profound now that Bryan, his rivalrous brother from the Justice Department, has come to Chicago to investigate the ...

The Russian President is threatening nuclear war, and America is forced to take drastic action. Can Duke Schiffer stop the Russian madman’s doomsday plot before it’s too late? Hoping to go down in a historic blaze of glory, the dying Russian President Yuri Volkov is threatening to unleash nuclear war on the United States and, this time, he means it. Now all he needs is his trusted friend, Russian Defense Minister Dmitri Balakin, to execute his launch orders and watch America go down in flames. With his eyes on the presidency, Balakin knows he is on the verge of becoming a very rich and ...

They came after his family . . . and now they must pay the price. After saving America from the Russian nuclear threat, Duke Schiffer is content to enjoy a quiet life with his growing family. But that vanishes in an instant when the unthinkable happens, and now his only mission is to wreak vengeance on his enemies. With the presidential campaign in full swing, Senator Bradford Baldwin, the nominee for Vice President, knows that defeating the Schumacher/Stubblefield ticket will be a daunting task. There’s a chance, though, and the odds are getting better by the day. But his Chief of Staff ...

London, 2044. Britain is a republic. President Jan Polak has vanished overnight from Buckingham Palace, just weeks before an election. Has he been kidnapped? Or even killed? One man is determined to find out - as soon as he's had his breakfast. His name is Pond. Howie Pond - the president's official spokesperson and wannabe secret agent. With just a love of James Bond films to guide him, Howie sets out on a mission to solve the missing-president mystery.

Florentyna Kane has finally become the first woman president in America. But on the very day that she is sworn into office, powerful forces are already in motion to take her life. The FBI investigates 1000s of false threats every year. This time, a reliable source has tipped them off about an assassination attempt. One hour later, the informant and all but one of the investigating agents are dead. The lone survivor: FBI Special Agent Mark Andrews. Now, only he knows when the killers will strike. But how can he alone unravel a ruthless conspiracy - in less than one week?

Knowing the election was stolen, President Hopkins needs 48 hours to prove it, and to stop the escalating war games with the Chinese. With no one left to turn to, she summons Luke Stone, the former head of an elite FBI para-military team. The stakes could not be higher as she commands him to save America from its greatest threat: its own president-elect. Yet as one shocking twist follows another, it may, even for Luke Stone, be too late.

After a long career as one of DC’s most powerful litigators, Rob Jacobson is faced with the case of a lifetime: the former President of the United States—his childhood best friend—has been accused of murdering his mistress. Rob knows he’s the only one who can prove his friend’s innocence, but he is soon overwhelmed as he attempts to devise a strategy to defend an authoritative man with a taste for infidelity, serious anger issues, and unconventional sexual appetites.

President Nathaniel "Dutch" McAdams saves his family from the apocalypse, but drops his sacred duty in the process. With the nation destroyed, he retreats into a brutal regimen of physical fitness and combat training, resolving to fight to the death as a partisan for the country he failed. Dutch and his family settle among the Paiute Indians, where two months later, a Russian Spetsnaz unit comes searching for the nuclear missile control briefcase in the wreckage of Air Force One.

Stolen nuclear weapons. Rogue agents obsessed with revenge. Can Duke Schiffer stop them before the capital goes up in flames? Even with newfound peace in the streets, the White House knows the peace will only last so long. And now, with the alarm bells blaring, President Schumacher is faced with one of the most frightening crises of his presidency. Having been blamed for the prior administration’s deadly pullout of Afghanistan, disgruntled vet Trevor Staunton and his comrades seek to settle scores by plotting with Chinese spies to steal nuclear weapons from America’s own stockpile. Once...

Two armed men board a 727 that has been all but forgotten at an airfield in Angola. Hijacking the jet, they then slit the throat of the lone crew and fly to parts unknown. The consternation is immediate, as the CIA, FBI, and other agencies race to find out what happened, in the process elbowing one another in the sides a little too vigorously. Fed up, the president of the United States turns to an outside investigator to determine the truth.

A sitting US President is missing. President Bill Clinton partners with number one best-selling author James Patterson in a powerful, one-of-a-kind thriller filled with the kind of insider details that only a President can know.

There are stories no one knows. Hidden stories. I find those stories for a living. To most, it looks like Beecher White has an ordinary job. A young staffer with the National Archives in Washington, DC, he's responsible for safekeeping the government's most important documents and, sometimes, its most closely held secrets. But there are a powerful few who know his other role. He's a member of the Culper Ring, a 200-year-old secret society founded by George Washington and charged with protecting the Presidency. Now the current occupant of the White House needs the Culper Ring's help.

To the public eye, Vincent Campbell is seen as a controversial figure known for his bizarre behavior, offensive outbursts, and contrarian stances—on top of a number of legal issues. Unbeknownst to most of the world, however, he holds secrets far worse than derogatory remarks in his personal life. And when it catches up to him, he tells all to a forensic psychiatrist, Lorraine Lynch, who has been assigned to find out why he has done what he has done.

With the resignation of Vice President Brenda Jackson imminent, America is in need of a replacement – and President Schumacher knows just the right man for the job. But the political opposition isn't going to let FBI Director Ty Stubblefield become the next in line to the presidency without a fight. With too much at stake, Congressman Richard LeCocq uses his position on the Intelligence Committee to help his party expose Director Stubblefield's tactics in the war on terror, including his use of the FBI's secret Phantom team. But LeCocq has other reasons for leaking the classified ...