The first Dark Shadows Thriller is here.
From the author of the thrilling Whispers of Atlantis and Cleopatra novels (4.5/5 from 4000+ ratings)
Think runaway robots and hyper-realistic fake videos are scary?
Max Stone loves his job as a covert operative in SHADOW, a new black-ops agency designed to fight technology’s darkest threats. Part special forces, part keyboard warriors, and a whole lotta unauthorized, their world is murderous AIs, cyber-terrorists, and chaos mongers hell-bent on death and destruction.
Well, “loves” just became past tense.
Now he’s dragged into a bizarre case consuming the world. This? It has nothing to do with Crypto wizards turning digital gold into the darker kind of fireworks for Jihadis but everything to do with the kind of bullshit he never wanted.
But when a genius analyst uncovers a single cryptic clue, the unlikely pair plunge into a twisted labyrinth where every dark corner whispers of a technology beyond imagination, wielded by unseen masters preparing their grand finale.
Who are these men? What do they command? And what does an ancient Sumerian tale etched on sun-baked bricks have to do with stopping them?
Tick-tock.
Time’s running out.
Can Max and Ria defuse a ticking bomb of catastrophe before becoming casualties in a brutal game, where igniting wars and puppeteering governments are trivial, and where truth is a dying ember in the ashes of liberty?
Come on a twisted journey where modern nightmares and ancient secrets collide.
Also by Jay
Some secrets are best left buried.
“pure enjoyment…”
A frequent #1 on Amazon’s Ancient Egyptian History bestseller lists.
323 B.C., Babylon
King Alexander the Great has died, and his bloodthirsty generals quarrel for the pieces of a vast empire. But Captain Deon faces his own nightmare, born of a shameful past: a vicious lender threatens to sell his wife and young daughter into slavery if he does not clear his crippling debt.
Hope glimmers when the dead king’s wily secretary dangles a mission that whispers of an unimaginable reward.
Thrust into the murky and dangerous waters of succession where his success holds the keys to the ultimate prize, Alexander’s throne, Deon faces a terrifying choice: complete the mission and earn his family’s freedom, or refuse and let them perish in Nubia’s brutal gold mines.
Assisted by a companion as skilled in tongues as she is with a dagger, and pursued by malignant forces that will stop at nothing, Deon must cross violent lands to find an astonishing mystery hidden for a thousand years. But every step closer to freedom unveils a burden far heavier than his debt, for his choices could determine not only his family’s fate but that of a million innocents.
51 B.C., Alexandria, Egypt
Some wells have poisoned waters.
With her father sick and her sister dead by his hands, sixteen-year-old Cleopatra is poised to assume the heavy mantle of power and exercise the divine authority vested in her by the gods of Egypt.
But the gilded arches and marble columns hide a grim reality and the gathering of storm clouds. A surly Rome is banging on her doors for debt repayments, the kingdom is on the verge of a civil war, and the dying king’s powerful advisors seek to discard her like a rag and control the kingdom through her brother.
Now, the young regent must confront her adversaries and walk the tightrope over an abyss of treachery and conflict, because one wrong move means ending three thousand years of Pharaonic rule and turning up as a corpse in the Alexandrian marshes.