In the distant past, the leader of a Neanderthal tribe confronts the end of his kind. Today, a computational biologist, a Navy pilot, and an autistic boy are drawn together by the ancient mystery that gave rise to Homo sapiens.Planes are falling from the sky. Global communications have ceased. America stands on the brink of war with China—but war is the least of humankind’s concerns. As solar storms destroy Earth’s electronics and plunge the world into another Ice Age, our civilization finds itself overrun by a powerful new species of man... This brilliant thriller takes readers to an all-too-plausible tomorrow that’s as scientifically rigorous as it is wildly imaginative. Jeff Carlson is the internationally bestselling author of Plague Year and The Frozen Sky. With Interrupt, he brings his forward-thinking fiction to a contemporary setting with this edge-of-your-seat thriller.Review"Riveting." —Scott Sigler, New York Times bestselling author of Pandemic"Edgy and exciting. Carlson writes like a knife at your throat." —Bob Mayer, New York Times bestselling author of the Green Berets and Area 51 series."A killer thriller." —John Lescroart, New York Times bestselling author of The Hunter"A phenomenal read." —Steven Savile, international bestselling author of Silver"The ideas fly as fast as jets." —Kim Stanley Robinson, Hugo Award-winning author of 2312 Readers can find advance excerpts, videos, contests, and more at jverse.comAbout the AuthorJeff Carlson was born on the day of the first manned moon landing and narrowly escaped being named Apollo, Armstrong, or Rocket. His father worked for NASA-Ames at the time. His granddad on his mother’s side was a sci fi fan whose library included autographed copies of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy. Both men were strong, early influences—and in the high tech 21st Century, it’s easy to stand with one foot in reality and the other in thriller novels.Jeff is the internationally bestselling author of Interrupt, Plague Year, and The Frozen Sky, hailed by Publishers Weekly as “Pulse pounding.” To date, his writing has appeared in fifteen languages worldwide. Readers can find free fiction, videos, contests, and more on his web site at www.jverse.com.

First Earth was devastated by the machine plague, a runaway nanotechnology that devoured all warm-blooded organisms below altitudes of ten thousand feet. Then the remnants of humankind turned on one another, provoking a brief, furious world war and the invasion of North America. Now Russia and Chinese armies hold California against the battered forces of the U.S.-Canadian Alliance. Nanotech researcher Ruth Goldman and Cam Najarro — a former Army Ranger who helped her force an end to the war — have finally found some peace in a small, hidden village in the Rockies. But the arms race for weaponized nanotech has continued, and America is struck by a new contagion. Together with a small band of friends and rivals, Ruth and Cam must discover the source of the new plague — never suspecting that its creator is an old enemy they believe dead…

Top 150 Kindle Bestseller — #1 in Space Opera — #1 in High Tech — #1 in Evolution “The Frozen Sky” is a stand-alone novella by the international bestselling author of the Plague Year trilogy. Originally published in Writers of the Future 23 , “The Frozen Sky” is a near-future sci fi thriller set beneath the ice of Jupiter’s sixth moon, Europa. This story has been translated into Czech, Estonian, Polish, Romanian and Turkish in magazines overseas. It also earned an honorable mention in Gardner Dozois’s The Year’s Best Science Fiction . This ebook includes two illustrations by Karel Zeman, whose artwork appeared in Pevnost magazine alongside the Czech translation of “The Frozen Sky.”

"Pulse pounding." -Publishers Weekly"I'm hooked." -Larry Niven SUNFISH VS HUMAN A quake in the ice nearly kills Alexis Vonderach, setting off new confrontations with the blind alien tribes of Europa. In the weeks since First Contact, her crew has learned their bizarre language... but the sunfish are as violent as their world... * Betrayed is a sequel to The Frozen Sky by the international bestselling author of Plague Year*.Review"Highly recommended."--**Seanan McGuire "A first-rate adventure."--Allen Steele**About the AuthorJeff Carlson is the bestselling author of Plague Year, Interrupt, and The Frozen Sky. To date, his work has been translated into sixteen languages worldwide. Readers can find free fiction, videos, contests and more at jverse.com

Researcher Ruth Goldman has developed a vaccine with the potential to inoculate the world's survivors against the nanotech plague that devastated humanity. But the fractured U.S. government will stop at nothing to keep it for themselves.