A.J. Landau Books In Order

Publication Order of National Parks Thriller Books

A.J. Landau is the pen name used by two authors, Jon Land and Jeff Ayers. Land is a bestselling author who has had his writing win him several awards and has a prolific career, co-authoring over fifty books. Ayers is a former librarian and is a reviewer and author.

Today Land resides in Providence, Rhode Island, while Jeff Ayers resides in Seattle, Washington. Land is a USA Today bestselling author who is known for writing books that feature the character of Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong. The series has been critically acclaimed and has won him over a dozen awards, including the 2019 International Book Award for the best thriller for Strong as Steel. He is also known for penning Chasing the Dragon, an account of the War on Drugs that was written with a DEA Agent.

Land is a graduate of Brown University. He has also been the recipient of the 2019 Rhode Island Authors Legacy Award for his literary achievements in his lifetime.

Leave No Trace is the first book in the National Parks Thriller series by A.J. Landau. If you have been looking for a story to check out with some action and a plot that keeps it moving, then check this story out for yourself!

In a horrible act of terrorism that could only be described as daring, the Statute of Liberty is attacked by an explosion and topples over. The news eventually gets to Special Agent Michael Walker from the National Park Service, who is woken up by his boss with the news.

He gets sent over to New York to work the scene as the agent in charge. But it isn’t too long before he lands that Michael finds out that some things have come into place. He finds out that Gina Delgado from the FBI has put in charge of the investigation and is now the lead of the Joint Terrorism Task Force. He also finds out that the treats for a second terrorism attack are being called into the media.

Walker does not have the security clearance and so is prevented from being a part of the meetings of the Joint Task Force. He discovers a young boy among the survivors who has an important piece of information, which is a video that ties the attackers to this assault.

When a radical domestic terrorist group threatens to bring further attacks against the cultural symbols of America, it becomes clear that this event is refusing to be contained for the moment. They are known to be led by a shadowy figure who goes by Jebediah.

What is clear is that there are powerful forces inside of the government that are misleading this investigation to get further with their own radical agenda. Can they manage to sort through all of the red tape and can Walker make some progress and protect America? Or is he about to find out that he’s in over his head? Read this book to find out!

Cold Burn is the second book in the National Parks Thriller series by A.J. Landau. If you read the first book and really liked it, then be sure to check out the sequel and see what you think!

Agent Michael Walker comes back when the many deaths at Glacier Bay National Park are simply the first parts of a disaster that has the potential to go global. A frozen woolly mammoth is being uncovered by a geological survey team in Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park.

But then all of them are discovered dead at the site of the carcass that has been thawed out. Once this happens, National Park Service ISB Special Agent Michael Walker is called upon to come in and investigate further.

Meanwhile, in the Everglades National Park in Florida, FBI special investigator Gina Delgado is looking into the murder of an environmental science intern and tracing it slowly but surely back to the ongoing experiments being done by the U.S. Geological Survey that are also having an impact on the fragile ecosystem there.

Then, in the cold water of Alaska’s Elfin Cove, a group on board the stranded L.A. class attack submarine are taken out by a contagion of mysterious origin, which causes their lungs to freeze. These events may appear to be separate, but they could also very well be linked.

The tie between these two events may be found in a prehistoric and deadly microbe that proved to kill the mammoth just the same way that it did to the USGS survey team and the crew members who were on board that submarine.

This is the microbe that a billionaire out there, among others, wants more than anything to get. On top of that, a Russian strongman is willing to do anything that it takes to weaponize to get even larger power with a wide range.

Walker ends up finding that he is fighting a battle in different ways, from intellectually to militarily and biologically. The result is that he and Delgado are quickly running out of the time required in order to get ahead of and stop an attack from happening that has the potential to reshape the entire world going forward. Will they be successful or will they find out that some things are simply out of their control? Read this action packed book from A.J. Landau to find out!