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America was on the brink of collapse. The fabric of society was torn apart. The economy was in shambles. Ordinary Americans in neighborhoods like yours experienced death by a thousand cuts. Survival would require a thousand stitches. International bestselling author, Bobby Akart, one of America's favorite storytellers, delivers up-all-night thrillers to nearly two million readers in 245 countries and territories worldwide.

When Dr. Emily Pickett prepares to present evidence that 4I/SWAN may not be natural, threats follow. And the scientific establishment closes ranks. Meanwhile, her brother, Daniel, uncovers proof that powerful forces have been monitoring the object since its discovery and their family for even longer than that. Five days. That’s all the time the Pickett family has before an interstellar object designated 4I/SWAN makes its closest approach to Earth. The conspiracy they uncovered was just the beginning. Now comes the catastrophe.

This Christmas Eve, America goes dark. Families are gathering in celebration. Presents wait under trees. Across America, it was to be a night of festivities and anticipation. Then the night goes silent. From International bestselling author Bobby Akart comes Silent Night, a heart-pounding standalone disaster thriller of America collapsing and the family trying to survive it. In Kansas City, Arrowhead Stadium roars as the Chiefs take the field. Shoppers flood the Country Club Plaza where the Dalton family’s barbecue restaurant glows with holiday lights.

When NASA’s SWAN space telescope detects a faint ultraviolet anomaly beyond the orbit of Jupiter, astronomers assume it’s a comet—an interstellar visitor drifting harmlessly through space. But as more data pours in from observatories around the world, the excitement turns to confusion then to fear.4I/SWAN isn’t just unusual. It’s breaking all the rules.

CIA Case Officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad. The two fall into a forbidden relationship, which supercharges Haddad's recruitment and creates unspeakable danger when they enter Damascus to find the man responsible for the disappearance of an American spy. But the cat-and-mouse chase for the killer soon leads to a trail of high-profile assassinations and the discovery of a dark secret at the heart of the Syrian regime.

The U.S. descends into total madness overnight when a rabies-like chimeric virus turns the population into feral, raging masses. Few survive the first wave, reducing the country to a hostile landscape filled with roaming predators.

CIA officers Sia and Max enter Russia under commercial cover to recruit Vladimir Putin's moneyman. Sia works for a London law firm that conceals the wealth of the superrich. Max's family business in Mexico—a CIA front since the 1960s—is a farm that breeds high-end racehorses. They pose as a couple to target Vadim, Putin's private banker, and his wife, Anna, who—unbeknownst to CIA—is a Russian intelligence officer under deep cover at the bank.

It happens on a routine red-eye from Las Vegas to New York. Just as the plane breaks the early morning sky, in a blink of an eye, 144 passengers onboard flight 6520 die. There is no rhyme or reason. Experts scramble to find an explanation on how and why those on Flight 6520 met their demise so quickly and violently. It is hurriedly explained as a terror attack to the public, but General Buford Cane knows better. He has spent his entire career dedicated to the investigation and prevention of globe-threatening events.

In a nation where loyalty is rationed and freedom is regulated, the line between law and tyranny has vanished. Coldwater, Michigan was supposed to be quiet. Locked down. Managed. But when Corporate Security tightens its grip, cuts food, shrinks the perimeter, and turns civilians into shields, something old and dangerous wakes up in the countryside.

What starts as an emergence of a new virus quickly turns into Mother Nature’s ultimate population control. While attending a seminar at the Ambassador Hotel, Ava Mason is unknowingly exposed to a carrier of a highly contagious virus. The next morning, she wakes to a steady pounding on her door. Within minutes, her home is stormed and she and her three children are apprehended, placed in a van and taken away. They are told nothing. No one is. Ava, her children, and others are brought to the Ambassador and sealed in.

Mount St. Helens erupts without warning unleashing a VEI 6 explosion of ash, fire, and fury. It cripples the Pacific Northwest, choking cities, burying highways, and raining destruction upon the land. For the Mercer family, the eruption strikes terrifyingly close to home. Their sanctuary becomes a battleground as seismic chaos tears through the Columbia River Gorge.

When the zombie apocalypse hits the quiet Asheville, NC, subdivision of Whispering Pines, the residents don't turn to the police or the military. Nope. They rely on their iron-fisted Home Owners Association! Which Jace Stanford and his family aren’t too keen on. Undead hordes are hard enough to deal with in a post-apocalyptic hellscape, who needs HOA fines too?

Family and friends know Marty McClure as a kind, peaceful man. They aren't aware that when he was young, he plumbed the depths of despair with no assurance he'd ever surface again. Now he needs to reveal what happened in Vietnam and how, with the help of Patti, his wife Corrie Corrigan, a disabled vet, and Doc Matheson, a corpsman turned trauma surgeon, he made peace with the ghosts that have visited his dreams all these years.

The radio goes quiet while on convoy in Afghanistan a lost patrol is alone in the desert. With his unit and his home base destroyed, Staff Sergeant Brad Thompson suddenly finds himself isolated and in command of a small group of men trying to survive in the Afghan wasteland. Every turn leads to danger. The local population has been afflicted with an illness that turns them into rabid animals. They pursue him and his men at every corner and stop. Struggling to hold his team together and unite survivors, he must fight and evade his way to safety.

In a near-future America fractured by corporate rule and brutal crackdowns, one man’s war ignites a revolution. As Homeland Security scrambles to hold the line, resistance erupts in the streets—and no city burns hotter than the capital.

Death isn’t always the end. I was a soldier, fighting for the lives of the whole world, when I went and got myself obliterated by this magic alien monster. I figured that was it. Game over, done. But, then I woke up in a different body, in a strange world full of dust and ruins, with awesome martial arts skills I’d never had before. Not to mention a chi gift thing that seemed to work a lot like magic. And, there were these words seared into my brain like a motivational quote: You can save them. You can save all of them.

A mysterious virus emerges after a meteor lands near a remote village in Peru. Authorities brought in to investigate discover the horrific virus not only kills, but it reanimates its victims, turning them into the walking dead. In spite of the government believing they have contained the outbreak, samples of the contagion are brought to the United States via infected military and other victims. The virus breaks boundaries and the infection spreads initiating the ground invasion of the War against the Undead.

With the threats brought to their doorstep, the neighbors behind the gates face a dilemma. Do they try to make peace with those who've threatened their very existence if they don't pay a King's ransom in food and supplies? Or, do they stand their ground and fight back in an effort to protect their property and themselves. Old, festering animosity within the neighborhood rises to the surface as two distinct factions are in complete disagreement as to the best course of action. Will the two groups be able to put their differences aside?

From the War on Terror, a world crippling bioweapon is released. The US scrambles teams of scientists from the Centers for Disease Control. America's top field agents are tasked with collecting samples and developing a cure.

A band of survivors connected by a profound sense of duty. Home was the mission, but confronted with an enemy greater than the Primal virus they are sidetracked to once again put their unique skills to use for the greater good. The fight continues as Brad and his men struggle to survive in a post-apocalyptic world where the Primals are only a part of the danger.