James Owen

Collateral Damage: A Nick Hardy Story Thriller ⋄ Action After returning home from war, a former Marine Corps EOD tech begins to rebuild his life—and his heart—through the family business and a promising relationship with a woman named Claire. But when he discovers she’s an undercover FBI agent sent to infiltrate his life for intel on a domestic terror threat, Nick must confront a deadly enemy from his past, a fractured sense of trust, and the realization that there’s no such thing as normal anymore.

The Thule Incident: Shadows of the Cold War Thriller ⋄ Mystery In 1968, a young CIA analyst, Ethan Carter, on his first field assignment investigates a crashed U.S. bomber carrying nuclear weapons, only to uncover a Soviet-led conspiracy that may have resulted in a stolen warhead. Though the case is buried under layers of Cold War secrecy, fifty years later, Carter is pulled out of retirement when a new generation intelligence officer stumbles upon the classified file. Using modern technology, they track the missing nuclear bomb—only to discover it’s been waiting all along, hidden in the waters off Washington, D.C., primed for detonation by Soviet-era loyalists within the Russian government.