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The Last Odyssey by James Rollins
The Wrath of Poseidon by Clive Cussler
The Trouble With Miracles by Stephen Steele
The Ancient Nine by Ian K. Smith
The Sentinel by Lee Child
ODIN by David Archer

The cold months of the Fall and Winter can feel slow and boring. Thankfully, action and adventure books are the perfect remedy. It’s just science: A fast-paced, exciting story gets your blood pumping and adrenaline rushing, which in turn keeps your eyes glued to the pages as you tear through them. If that sounds like your kind of weekend, here’s a list of action and adventure books to binge right now!

The Last Odyssey by James Rollins

The Last Odyssey by James Rollins

Rollins isn’t a writer who holds back. In his latest, a group of jihadists are close to decoding the secrets of an ancient power that can potentially unleash the fury of hell itself. It’s up to Sigma Force — a secret division of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) — to take up the whirlwind investigation and protect the young academic who might hold the keys to salvation. They find in the terrorists formidable foes who combine cold-blooded brutality with keen intelligence and a hunger for power and control that will drive them to the depths of hell — unless Sigma Force can stop them. Rollins writes Dan Brown with an extra shot of adrenaline (or 20), and the end result is light-speed adventure that never lets up on the gas.

 


The Wrath of Poseidon by Clive Cussler

The Wrath of Poseidon by Clive Cussler

Cussler may have left us, but his legacy lives on — and few book series deliver thrills as consistently as the Sam and Remi Fargo books. Wrath of Poseidon begins a decade in the past, when a chance meeting sends the not-yet-married Sam and Remi chasing after a legendary treasure from the sixth century BCE. They run afoul of a powerful drug lord and are forced to abandon the quest in order to survive, eventually sending their foe to jail. Ten years later, they return to Greece to finish the search, but the drug lord is out of prison and plans to steal the treasure for himself — and kill Sam and Remi in the process. It’s nonstop action with a twist of Indiana Jones, and every page just draws you deeper in.

 


The Trouble With Miracles by Stephen Steele

The Trouble With Miracles by Stephen Steele

Returning protagonists Cyd and Alex return to Montana to settle down and lead a quiet life. Robert, a close friend working in Chile, turns up missing after recent earthquakes trigger strange lights coming from a volcano. Robert’s father persuades Cyd and Alex to go looking for him.

A harrowing adventure follows that uncovers a civilization of ancient aliens who possessed the secret to fusion energy, the same energy that powers the sun. An object is found in a lost city that explains the technology, but it is unreadable. The Chinese, mining lithium for electric car batteries in Chile’s northern desert, learn that one of their geologists, Robert, has discovered an object that explains how fusion energy works, and how to recreate it here on earth.

Meanwhile, Bahamian treasure hunters Sam Sorini and Nikki Perez recover a journal from a sunken 18th century Spanish galleon that reveals there is something hidden on an island off Chile’s coast that can translate the alien object. Desperate to get their hands on technology they can use to rule the world, the Chinese pursue Cyd, Alex, Sam and Nikki to Easter Island where the secrets of the past could save the future, or destroy it.

 


The Ancient Nine by Ian K. Smith

The Ancient Nine by Ian K. Smith

 

This “based on real events” novel from Ian K. Smith has a lot going for it: secret histories inside Harvard’s walls, a mysterious disappearance, and a coveted Harlan Coben seal of approval. The Ancient Nine takes us back to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1988, where two unlikely friends — Dalton and Spenser — begin to uncover the dark past of the Delphic Club, Harvard’s most prestigious and exclusive finals club. As Dalton and Spenser dig into Delphic’s closely guarded secrets they run up against a powerful group of alums, the Ancient Nine, who will stop at nothing to protect the club they hold dear.


The Sentinel by Lee Child

The Sentinel by Lee Child

Jack Reacher has become one of the mainstays of the action and adventure genre because he’s a nearly-perfect thriller character: physically imposing, intelligent, deeply moral, and free. Child coauthored the 25th book in the series with his younger brother and fellow novelist Andrew Grant, who will take over the series under the pen name Andrew Child — but the DNA is all Reacher. Arriving in Nashville with no plan, Reacher does what he always does: Seeing a group of musicians being treated unfairly by a bar owner, he steps in to make things right and soon finds himself embroiled in a plot that goes deeper than anyone could have imagined. As usual, the action begins to simmer immediately, and following Reacher is so entertaining you just keep turning pages to find out how he settles all his accounts by the end.

 


ODIN by David Archer

ODIN by David Archer

Nobody has ever heard of ODIN.

ODIN is about as secret as a government agency can get. Because within ODIN there is General Operations, which speaks for itself; ODIN 5i, which deals with intelligence gathering, and then there is ODIN 1i which deals in operations so sensitive not even the CIA can touch them. All three are run with an iron first by The Chief, a giant with a gigantic IQ. His top agent is Alex Mason, hard and cool – he’s a law unto himself. But when an ODIN 5i agent based at the US Embassy in Manila, goes missing, and his encrypted laptop disappears with him, the whole ODIN structure is put in peril. Then the agents he was managing start to disappear one by one, and things start to look ugly. So Alex Mason is sent to Manila, and what he finds there is the growing shadow of Chinese imperialism threatening not only America’s presence in the Pacific, but the security of the whole Western World.

 


Wyatt Semenuk

Wyatt grew up in New York, Connecticut, and on the Jersey Shore. Attracted by its writing program and swim team, he attended Kenyon College, majoring in English with an emphasis on creative writing. After graduation, he took an industry world tour, dipping his toes into game development, culinary arts, dramatic/fiction writing, content creation and even work as a fishmonger, before focusing on marketing. Reading, powerlifting, gaming and shooting clays are his favorite pastime activities.

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