Award-winning archaeologists and New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear bring us a gripping disaster thriller. From New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors and award-winning archaeologists W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear comes a deadly battle of wits between hunter and hunted. “What good is being the last person standing if all that’s left is smoking ruins?” Captain Brenda Pepper used to be special forces. Now? She’s a bodyguard for rich people, and this weekend her job is keeping international banker Chantel Simond alive at all costs. Chantel Simond is a woman shrouded in mystery, not only for Brenda, but for…

Award-winning archaeologists and New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear bring us a gripping disaster thriller. The seas flood their banks. Storms devastate entire continents. Fires envelop the world in darkness. The collapse begins… Anthropologist Anika French makes an explosive discovery: due to climate change, our world is threatened with collapse in just a few years, and humanity will perish. Anika’s committee chair published her work under his own name, now powerful people will do anything to obtain Anika’s statistical program for their own use. With murder, kidnapping, extortion, and assassination on every side, Dr. Maureen Cole, a team of…

My interest in this subject began when I was working on an archaeological excavation in Israel--where some of the most spectacular Neandertal remains are found--and I started pondering the ancient viruses that might be hidden in the bones.  You see, many viruses were passed on to modern humans by our archaic ancestors, Neandertals and Denisovans. Millions of years old, they were, until recently, considered extinct. However, in 2016, an intact fossil virus was discovered in the human genome. (phys.org/news/2016-04-ancient-retrovirus-human-dna.html). So, here's the question I'm asking in MAZE MASTER:  Is the newfound activity of this virus simply the harmless death cry of an ancient retrovirus spiraling toward extinction?  Some scientists believe…

Bizarre celebrity thefts are occurring all over the world: A piece of hair from John Lennon, Julia Roberts' bed linens, and Sheela Marks, Hollywood's hottest actress, is constantly being approached in odd ways by obsessed fans literally out for a piece of her. Paranoid and desperate for her own safety, she turns to her security expert, ex-Marine Lymon Bridges, who must match wits with his most formidable opponent yet. One of Bridges's new recruits, Christal Anaya, was a hot shot FBI agent who recently lost her job due to a major slip-up during one of the agencies most sought after cases. Now Bridges hopes to use her investigative…

Die Anthropologin Anika French macht eine brisante Entdeckung: Die Menschheit hat den Punkt, an dem sich der Treibhauseffekt umkehren lässt, bereits überschritten; sie wird ebenso untergehen wie einst die Maya, und zwar schon in wenigen Jahren. Doch Anika ist keineswegs die Einzige, die darüber Bescheid weiß. Geheime Regierungsorganisationen haben dieses Wissen seit Langem vertuscht. Bald wird Anika zur Zielscheibe der Verschwörer, denn sie findet heraus, dass deren Pläne weiter reichen: Die Menschheit erwartet ein noch viel schlimmeres Schicksal als eine globale Klimakatastrophe.             Books are available from:  

W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear, international bestselling authors of The First North Americans series, present a gripping, thought-provoking contemporary thriller in the tradition of Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park. Here a project of cutting-edge genetics might lead to a better world - or a waking nightmare … For thirteen years - since he became one of several scientists chosen to raise apes bred by the pharmaceutical giant SAC - Dr. Jim Dutton, his young daughter Brett, and the bonobo ape Umber have been a family. For Umber is far more than a subject or pet. She types, reads, speaks sign language, favors psychedelic clothes, and even contemplates…

Anthropological geneticist Dr. Bryce Johnson returns to his Manchester, New Hampshire, home in time to receive a cryptic phone call from his colleague, Scott Ferris. In a frightened voice, Scott tells him: "The research…it's real…" before two men brutally assault him. The next thing Bryce hears is the murderer's voice asking, "Who is this, please?" Veronica Tremain was exhausted when she stepped into her Boulder, Colorado, house. Freshly returned from celebrating her new Ph.D., she learns that her brother, Scott, has been murdered in Fort Collins. After seeing Scott's burned and mangled body, she is horrified to learn that she is the local police department's prime suspect. FBI…