MEET STEVEN KONKOLY

Steven Konkoly
Steven Konkoly is the USA Today bestselling author of over twenty novels and novellas.

His canon of THRILLERS includes: the FRACTURED STATE trilogy, a “24-style,” near future conspiracy series set in the southwest United States; the BLACK FLAGGED books, a gritty, no-holds barred covert operations and espionage saga; and the ALEX FLETCHER books, a tense, thriller epic, chronicling the aftermath of an inconceivable attack on the United States. He recently released HOT ZONE, the first book in a thriller series chronicling the events surrounding a bioweapons attack against the United States.

Steven graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1993, receiving a bachelor of science in English literature. He served the next eight years on active duty, traveling the world as a naval officer assigned to various Navy and Marine Corps units. His extensive journey spanned the globe, including a two-year tour of duty in Japan and travel to more than twenty countries throughout Asia and the Middle East. 

From enforcing United Nations sanctions against Iraq as a maritime boarding officer in the Arabian Gulf, to directing aircraft bombing runs and naval gunfire strikes as a Forward Air Controller (FAC) assigned to a specialized Marine Corps unit, Steven's “in-house” experience with a wide range of regular and elite military units brings a unique authenticity to his thrillers.

He lives with his family in central Indiana, where he still wakes up at “zero dark thirty” to write for most of the day. When “off duty,” he spends as much time as possible outdoors or travelling with his family–and dog. 

Steven is an active member of the International Thriller Writers (ITW) and Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) organizations. 

You can contact Steven directly by email or through his blog.

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THE ZULU VIRUS CHRONICLES

HOT ZONE

HOT ZONE (The Zulu Virus Chronicles Book 1)

WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS, complete strangers from different walks of life will be forced to join together to survive the LIVING NIGHTMARE that has been unleashed on their city—AND THEIR COUNTRY.

This is their story.

WELCOME TO THE HOT ZONE!

Hot Zone is available as an eBookaudiobook & paperback - and free to read in the Kindle Unlimited Program.

KILL BOX

KILL BOX (The Zulu Virus Chronicles Book 2)

A LETHAL BIOWEAPON HAS BEEN RELEASED ACROSS AMERICA.

With their daring escape plan thwarted at the last possible moment, HOT ZONE's motley band of survivors faces a worst-case scenario. Forced to take refuge near the epicenter of the bioweapons outbreak, deep inside in a city gone mad, THEIR TIME IS RUNNING OUT.

Kill Box is available as an eBookaudiobook & paperback - and free to read in the Kindle Unlimited Program.

FIRE STORM

FIRE STORM (The Zulu Virus Chronicles Book 3)

SOMETHING MERCILESS WATCHES OVER THE OUTBREAK–GUIDING ITS COURSE.

Having narrowly survived the KILL BOX, HOT ZONE's hardened survivors and their KILL BOX allies separate to pursue different objectives–outside of the Indianapolis quarantine zone.

Fire Storm is available as an eBookaudiobook & paperback - and free to read in the Kindle Unlimited Program.

THE FRACTURED STATE SERIES

FRACTURED STATE

FRACTURED STATE (The Fractured State Series Book 1)

A land in ruin. A state on the verge of secession. A man on the run.

In a future California ravaged by drought and on the brink of political upheaval, a high-profile assassination triggers a cascade of violence and sabotage facilitated by the highest levels of power. Nathan Fisher, an unassuming government employee, is drawn into the unraveling conspiracy after accidentally witnessing a suspiciously timed clandestine military-style operation.

Fractured State is available as an eBookaudiobook & paperback - and free to read in the Kindle Unlimited Program.

ROGUE STATE

ROGUE STATE (The Fractured State Series Book 2)

A family runs for its life across the wastelands of a future America on the brink of collapse.

Twenty years in the future, America perches on the edge of collapse, devastated by drought and dwindling resources. California, now a totalitarian surveillance state controlling the lion’s share of the nation’s economy, is on the brink of secession. And family man Nathan Fisher finds himself at the heart of a bloody conspiracy that threatens the lives of his loved ones and the future of the country itself. Pursued by Mason Flagg and the sinister Cerberus organization, Nathan and his embattled family—accompanied by tough-as-nails Marine David Quinn—make a desperate run across the blasted wastes of the western United States, seeking sanctuary in Nevada.

Rogue State is available as an eBookaudiobook & paperback - and free to read in the Kindle Unlimited Program.

THE ALEX FLETCHER BOOKS

THE JAKARTA PANDEMIC

THE JAKARTA PANDEMIC (Alex Fletcher Book 1)

The unstoppable H16N1 virus rapidly spreads across the United States, stretching the fragile bonds of society to the breaking point. Schools close, grocery stores empty, fuel deliveries stop, hospitals start turning away the sick…riots engulf the cities. As hostility and mistrust engulfs his idyllic Maine neighborhood, Alex quickly realizes that the H16N1 virus will be the least of his problems.

The Jakarta Pandemic is available as an eBookaudiobook & paperback - and free to read in the Kindle Unlimited Program.

THE PERSEID COLLAPSE

THE PERSEID COLLAPSE (Alex Fletcher Book 2)

America is on the verge of collapse, in the thrilling post-apocalyptic sequel to international bestseller, The Jakarta Pandemic.

In the very near future, an inconceivable attack against the United States will unleash a human darkness over the country–with a vast appetite for chaos and violence. Alex Fletcher, former Marine, will wake to this brutally hostile landscape, thrown headfirst into an epic, impossibly grueling journey to save his family and friends.

The Perseid Collapse is available as an eBookaudiobook & paperback - and free to read in the Kindle Unlimited Program.

EVENT HORIZON

EVENT HORIZON (Alex Fletcher Book 3)

The critically acclaimed, post-apocalyptic saga continues…

With Boston collapsing faster than Alex Fletcher predicted, his personal rescue mission deep into the heart of an increasingly unfamiliar city reaches a critical point. Pursued by a ruthless militia group, and forced to navigate a treacherous landscape, he runs a gauntlet of grim decisions and impossible odds to reach perceived safety. Perceived because nothing is safe in the world emerging after the “event”

Event Horizon is available as an eBookaudiobook & paperback - and free to read in the Kindle Unlimited Program.

POINT OF CRISIS

POINT OF CRISIS (Alex Fletcher Book 4)

In the aftermath of the brutal attack on his family compound, Alex Fletcher embraces his rapidly expanding role within the New England Regional Recovery Zone (RRZ).

Fueled by a limitless drive to protect his family and a rekindled sense of duty, he enlists the reluctant aid of a local militia commander–to ease the public's fears of a federal government takeover.

Point of Crisis is available as an eBookaudiobook & paperback - and free to read in the Kindle Unlimited Program.

DISPATCHES

DISPATCHES (Alex Fletcher Book 5)

On August 19, 2019, a rogue Chinese military cabal launched an opportunistic EMP attack against the United States, triggering a cataclysmic chain of events–with the potential to change world forever.

With the United States crippled, belligerent powers rise to fill the void overseas, catapulting already volatile regions into chaos and war–hastening a worldwide collapse.

Dispatches is available as an eBookaudiobook & paperback - and free to read in the Kindle Unlimited Program.

THE BLACK FLAGGED SERIES

ALPHA

ALPHA (The Black Flagged Series Book 1)

Daniel Petrovich, the most lethal operative created by the Department of Defense's Black Flag Program, protects a secret buried in the deepest vaults of the Pentagon. Blackmailed into executing one final mission, Daniel's carefully constructed “life” rapidly disintegrates into a relentless federal manhunt–and a “24-style” race against the clock to suppress the shocking truth about his past. To survive, he'll release the darkest side of his concealed identity. A dark side with few boundaries–and even fewer loyalties.

Alpha is available as an eBookaudiobook & paperback - and free to read in the Kindle Unlimited Program.

REDUX

REDUX (The Black Flagged Series Book 2)

Two years after shocking Washington D.C. with a brutal betrayal, General Terrence Sanderson waits in the shadows for the right moment to demonstrate the grim necessity of his resurrected Black Flag program. His opportunity may arrive sooner than expected.

Redux is available as an eBookaudiobook & paperback - and free to read in the Kindle Unlimited Program.

APEX

APEX (The Black Flagged Series Book 3)

A tense alliance between General Sanderson and the CIA narrowly averts an apocalyptic attack by Islamic fundamentalists in Europe, but ultimately fails to recover the virus canisters. With the biological weapons still missing, the specter of an attack against the United States looms dangerously closer.

Apex is available as an eBookaudiobook & paperback - and free to read in the Kindle Unlimited Program.

VECTOR

VECTOR (The Black Flagged Series Book 4)

With the most recent bioterrorism threat against the United States neutralized, and Dr. Anatoly Reznikov in secret custody; CIA Deputy Director Karl Berg proposes a more permanent solution to prevent future attacks.

A covert raid by General Sanderson's Black Flag unit deep inside Russia…to destroy a bioweapons program that should have ended with the Cold War.

Vector is available as an eBookaudiobook & paperback - and free to read in the Kindle Unlimited Program.

COVENANT

COVENANT (The Black Flagged Series Book 4.5)

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed at every opportunity…with the blood of our enemies.” — General Terence Sanderson, USA, Retired (Head of the Black Flagged program)

At a luxury resort on the coast of Uruguay, Jessica Petrovich and a select team of Black Flagged operatives prepare to kill Dr. Anatoly Reznikov, the elusive bioweapons scientist responsible for designing and selling a lethal virus to America's enemies. At the same time, a Mossad assassination cell moves on a Russian mafiya boss believed to have offered Reznikov's bioweapons to the Iranians.

There's only one problem–BOTH TARGETS ARE LOCATED IN THE SAME HOTEL SUITE, and neither team knows the other is coming!

Covenant takes place between Books 4 and 5 of the Black Flagged Series.

Covenant is available as an eBookaudiobook & paperback - and free to read in the Kindle Unlimited Program.

OMEGA

OMEGA (The Black Flagged Series Book 5)

A joint U.S.- Russian Special Forces raid against a hidden laboratory yields an alarming discovery. Anatoly Reznikov, the deranged bioweapons scientist stolen from U.S. custody a few years earlier, vanished minutes before the attack–taking his deadly work with him.

Omega is available as an eBookaudiobook & paperback - and free to read in the Kindle Unlimited Program.

VINDICTA (The Black Flagged Series Book 6)

VINDICTA: BOOK 6 IN THE BLACK FLAGGED SERIES by Wall Street Journal and #1 Amazon bestseller, Steven Konkoly

VINDICTA
takes place in the immediate aftermath of OMEGA (Book 5), pitting General Sanderson's surviving Black Flag operatives and allies, against a monstrous, time-driven plot to reshape the United States in the warped image of TRUE AMERICA—a widespread domestic terrorist organization masquerading as a third-party political movement.

With only one shot at stopping key conspirators within the recently elected TRUE AMERICA administration from permanently and disastrously altering the future trajectory of the United States, the Black Flag crew triggers VINDICTA, a daring, multi-pronged operation to put an end to the madness and rot inside TRUE AMERICA—before it both figuratively and literally "infects" the entire country.

VINDICTA brings the core Black Flagged series to a satisfying, long-awaited end, opening new doors to bring many of the Black Flagged characters to life in new adventures—some already written.

VINDICTA is available as an eBookaudiobook & paperback - and free to read in the Kindle Unlimited Program.

WAYWARD PINES

WAYWARD PINES: GENESIS

WAYWARD PINES: GENESIS

This is a Wayward Pines-inspired story

GENESIS includes a foreword by Blake Crouch.

2833 AD. Reanimated ahead of schedule, Adam Hassler, former Delta Force officer, leads the first expedition out of David Pilcher's mountain superstructure. His mission is simple. Guide and protect a team of surveyors and scientists, while they study the surrounding area and collect data for the reconstruction of Wayward Pines. A few hours into the trek, Hassler suspects that the operation has been compromised–by the very people that ordered it.

With daylight fading, Hassler's team faces an unknown threat, on unfamiliar ground–in front of an impatient audience.

Wayward Pines: Genesis is available as an eBook & paperback - and free to read in the Kindle Unlimited Program.

RYAN DECKER SERIES

THE RESCUE

THE RESCUE (Ryan Decker Series Book 1)

An Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller.

Former CIA operative turned mercenary for hire Ryan Decker’s specialty is rescuing kidnap victims. Hired by an influential US senator to liberate her daughter from a human-trafficking ring, Decker never anticipated sabotage or that the assault could go so disastrously wrong. The hostage is dead. His team is wiped out, and so are their families, including Decker’s own wife and son—eliminated one by one by the Russian mafia. And he’s survived to take the fall.

When he’s inexplicably freed soon into a ten-year sentence in federal prison, Decker suspects another setup. And private investigator Harlow Mackenzie knows he’s right. She has evidence that a power greater than the Russian mob was behind the raid that ruined Decker’s life.

The Rescue is available as an eBookaudiobookpaperback & hardcover - and free to read in the Kindle Unlimited Program.

THE RAID

THE RAID (Ryan Decker Series Book 2)

A Border Patrol murder exposes a high-level conspiracy in USA Today bestselling author Steven Konkoly’s explosive thriller.

After exposing and dismantling a deep-state conspiracy that nearly destroyed his life, Ryan Decker finds his covert skills have put him on the radar of influential Senator Steele. Now Steele needs his help. Two patrol agents were killed in a bizarre explosion near the US-Mexico border—and the evidence doesn’t line up with the official story.

Enlisted by Steele to run an undercover, off-the-books investigation, Decker and his partner, Harlow, head to the border town of Tecate. But when they’re caught in an ambush, Decker realizes they’ve stumbled onto something far more dangerous than any of them understood.

The Raid is available as an eBookaudiobook & paperback - and free to read in the Kindle Unlimited Program.

THE MOUNTAIN (Ryan Decker Series Book 3)

An Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller.

Former CIA operative turned mercenary for hire Ryan Decker’s specialty is rescuing kidnap victims. Hired by an influential US senator to liberate her daughter from a human-trafficking ring, Decker never anticipated sabotage or that the assault could go so disastrously wrong. The hostage is dead. His team is wiped out, and so are their families, including Decker’s own wife and son—eliminated one by one by the Russian mafia. And he’s survived to take the fall.

When he’s inexplicably freed soon into a ten-year sentence in federal prison, Decker suspects another setup. And private investigator Harlow Mackenzie knows he’s right. She has evidence that a power greater than the Russian mob was behind the raid that ruined Decker’s life.

The Mountain is available as an eBookaudiobook & paperback - and free to read in the Kindle Unlimited Program.

SKYSTORM (Ryan Decker Series Book 4)

A Wall Street Journal bestselling series.

Unmasking a treasonous American conspiracy is a dangerous move in a heart-pounding thriller about greed, power, revenge, and murder.


After covert investigators Ryan Decker and Harlow Mackenzie demolished APEX, a billion-dollar criminal enterprise, a tenuous truce between the two factions suggested the battle was over. But not for Decker’s director, Senator Margaret Steele. She’s uncovered an even deadlier operation—code name Skystorm.

Skystorm is available as an eBookaudiobook & paperback - and free to read in the Kindle Unlimited Program.

DEVIN GRAY SERIES

DEEP SLEEP (Devin Gray Book 1)

Stopping the most dangerous conspiracy to ever threaten America means believing the unthinkable in an explosive novel by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Steven Konkoly.

Countersurveillance expert Devin Gray is unwittingly thrown headfirst into dangerous new territory after the death of his mother. Helen Gray, a paranoid and disgraced former CIA officer, believed she was on the verge of preventing a national catastrophe—a mission worth dying for. Others, including Devin, believe she was chasing delusions. Until he finds what she left behind.

With the help of longtime friend and former Marine helicopter pilot Marnie Young and a loyal team of covert operatives Helen summoned just before her death, Devin is propelled into a high-stakes chase across the country. What he uncovers, clue by clue, is a conspiracy more widespread and insidious than anyone could have imagined.

Now it’s Devin’s mission to destroy a covert network poised to deliver a fatal blow to the future of the United States. And also to vindicate his mother, by seeing the mission through to its treacherous end.

The Mountain is available as an eBookaudiobook & paperback - and free to read in the Kindle Unlimited Program.

COMING DAWN (Devin Gray Book 2)

The dawn of an inconceivable act of treason rises. The stakes for America’s future have never been higher than in a gripping novel of suspense by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Deep Sleep.

When CIA officer Helen Gray died, her son, Devin, a countersurveillance expert, inherited her paranoia—and the explosive evidence that gave it weight: a vast, previously undetected Russian sleeper network has operated in the United States since the Cold War.

The cells aren’t just embedded in every level of state and federal government. They’ve penetrated corporations that supply crucial technology to the Department of Defense and various intelligence agencies. With the network’s true scope still unknown, the only way to drive a stake through the heart of the conspiracy is to dispatch a covert crew to Moscow and eliminate the oligarch bankrolling it.

Russia’s endgame: inconceivable. Devin’s challenge: stop the greatest threat to national security and world peace in history. The margin for error: nonexistent.

Coming Dawn is available as an eBookaudiobook & paperback - and free to read in the Kindle Unlimited Program.

WIDE AWAKE (Devin Gray Book 3)

A conspiracy to incite an American civil war. The desperate chase to stop it is on in a propulsive thriller by Steven Konkoly, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Deep Sleep.

After taking out a sleeper network, Devin Gray and Marnie Young are picking up the pieces of their disrupted lives. But the gravity of the conspiracy they helped to cripple is sucking them right back into the black hole of violence and subterfuge that nearly consumed them. Another sleeper network is awake.

A progressive congresswoman dies in a car explosion, vaporized by an American kamikaze drone—the beginning of the mayhem to come. What Devin dismantled is being rebuilt. The plan: ignite a civil war in the United States and burn America to the ground.

Seeds of unrest are planted. Threats are escalating. The clock is ticking as Devin, Marnie, and an unconventional team of allies play a cat-and-mouse game across the country to stop a domestic nightmare from coming true.

Pre-order Wide Awake now as an eBook.

DEVIN GRAY SERIES

A CLEAN KILL (Garrett Mann Book 1)

An FBI agent hunting a serial killer has to up his game when a trail of murders is not what it seems in a riveting thriller by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Steven Konkoly.

Five dismembered bodies are found along the roadside, dumped in the middle of nowhere. This isn’t new to Special Agent Garrett Mann. Head of ARTEMIS, a specialized FBI task force hell-bent on hunting down cartel-related killings in the Southwest, Mann has seen this before.

He and his team have been tracking similar kills along thousands of miles of rural roads running north, south, and back again. When the latest slaughter yields a key piece of evidence, Mann thinks he’s found the killer and solved the case. That’s when the nightmare begins.

From a lakeside Minnesota mansion to an abandoned CIA black site in New Mexico, the hunt is on. But the closer Mann gets to his prey, the deadlier the stakes become. This is no ordinary serial killer. He’s not working alone—and the stakes go far beyond just preventing the serial killer’s next massacre. What Mann unravels is a powerful and far-reaching conspiracy beyond his wildest imagination.

A Clean Kill is available as an eBookaudiobook & paperback - and free to read in the Kindle Unlimited Program.

A HIRED KILL (Garrett Mann Book 1)

A serial killer draws an FBI agent into an explosive government conspiracy in a white-knuckle thriller by Steven Konkoly, the USA Today bestselling author of A Clean Kill.

After FBI special agent Garrett Mann executes a deadly raid on an underground facility in New Mexico, the sole survivor’s testimony reveals a greater threat to come.

The covert lair was a training ground for hundreds of cartel sicarios, who have since disappeared into the US, their ultimate mission still unknown. When another FBI raid goes catastrophically wrong, Mann finds himself on the trail of the Bureau’s original target—a moonlighting serial killer who leads the agent into a nightmare that’s darker and more extensive than Mann ever feared.

As Mann and his team hunt their fugitive, they find he could have deep ties to powerful government officials. But even as the list of people Mann trusts grows smaller, he must find the killer and blow the heart of this conspiracy wide open before more lives are lost.

Pre-order A Hired Gun now as an eBook or as paperback.

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