TOM BARBER

The explosive first Sam Archer thriller. 26 year old Sam Archer has just been selected to join a new counter-terrorist squad, the Armed Response Unit. And they have their first case. A team of suicide bombers are planning to attack London on New Year’s Eve. The problem? No one knows where any of them are. 4.5* or higher rating in USA, UK, France, Australia and Canada. Over 200,000 copies downloaded

Archer is in New York City for a funeral. After the service, an old familiar face approaches him with a proposition. A team of bank robbers are tearing the city apart, robbing it for millions. The FBI agent needs Archer to go undercover and try to stop them. Praise for The Getaway: ‘Dynamite characters and edge of your seat story line’ ‘As with Nine Lives, this is a sensational novel’ ‘Well developed characters, excellent writing and a story with more twists than a corkscrew’

Three men have been killed in the UK and USA in one morning. The deaths take place thousands of miles apart, yet are connected by an event fifteen years ago. Before long, Archer and the ARU are drawn into the violent fray. And there’s a problem. One of their own men is on the extermination list.

A dead body is found in Central Park, a man who was killed by a deadly virus. Someone out there has more of the substance and is planning to use it. Archer must find where this virus came from and secure it before any more is released. But he is already too late.

On his way home, Archer saves a team of US Marshals and a child they are protecting from a violent ambush in the middle of the Upper West Side. The group are forced to take cover in a tenement block in Harlem, their ambushers locking them in and sealing off the only way in or out of the building. And there are more killers on the way to finish the job.

Four months after they first encountered one another, Sam Archer and Alice Vargas are both working in the NYPD Counter-Terrorism Bureau and also living together. But a week after Vargas leaves for a trip to Europe, Archer gets a knock on his front door. Apparently Vargas has completely disappeared. And it appears she’s been abducted.

A nineteen year old woman is gunned down in a Queens car park, the latest victim in a brutal gang turf war that goes back almost a century. Suspended from duty, his badge and gun confiscated, Archer is nevertheless drawn into the fray as he seeks justice for the girl. People are going missing, all over New York. And soon, so does he.

A Federal manhunt is underway across the United States. Three people have been shot by a sniper, and he’s gone to ground somewhere in Washington D.C., his killing spree apparently still not over. As riots engulf the city and the manhunt intensifies, Sam Archer arrives in the city to visit his family. Or so it would appear.

A commercial airliner crashes into the Atlantic Ocean with hundreds of people on board. When another follows three days later, Archer and the rest of the team are assigned the case. At any moment, they know another plane could go down. And to try and solve the case, Archer’s going to have to go 35,000 feet up in the sky

A female CT Bureau detective and colleague of Archer’s is shot in the head in an empty pool in Astoria. Archer learns she’s been re-examining a strange case from seventeen years ago. On the morning of Tuesday September 11th, 2001, a FDNY firefighter showed up to work and committed suicide. But no-one has ever figured out why.

At a pre-July 4th carnival in New York, an eleven year old girl is almost killed when a knife slams into a wall, missing her by a hair’s breadth. No-one saw who threw the blade, but Archer and his NYPD team can guess why. Her dead father was one of the most powerful mobsters in the city. And someone seems hell bent on reuniting the girl with him.

As Archer is sent to a federal prison to help transport an old foe to another facility, a situation erupts that leads to the escape of some other, extremely dangerous prisoners. One of them is an inmate with just six days left on his sentence. But for a reason that quickly becomes clear, those are six days too many.

Two VIPs from two very different worlds are attacked during a stay in New York City. Lives are lost, and the fear and the threat of more violence is increasing with every hour. Archer is ordered to find answers, and as he searches for clues, the shocking truth starts to become clearer. But no-one is safe as that truth comes into focus. No-one.

Archer and his colleagues in Shepherd’s squad are pulled into a war at the Texas/Mexico border, between law-enforcement officers and a powerful drug cartel. An international bridge serves as the entry point into the United States for the cartel’s products. And it’s about to become the focal point of a ferocious battle.

In a collection of three stories, familiar characters from the Sam Archer thriller series look Death right in the eye and don’t blink first. Moments that forged the people they are today. Moments they can never forget. Their close calls.

In this prequel novel, featuring two familiar characters from the Sam Archer thriller series, an investigation involving a dead famous athlete, another assaulted in a seedy strip club toilet and a vigilante going out at night delivering street justice draws the NYPD’s attention. Despite their junior status, Officers Matt Shepherd and Jake Hendricks are drawn into the case as quiet, unofficial investigators. But also, as suspects.

When a BBC World reporter is kidnapped three days before the withdrawal deadline in Afghanistan in August 2021, her former CIA operative sister is sent to try and find her before the clock runs out.