Eco Thrillers

Rushing to Paradise  by J.G. Ballard
A slightly mad environmentalist named Dr. Barbara takes over a Pacific atoll and creates a utopian community, which quickly becomes a less than ideal place.

Ill Wind by Nevada Barr
The ruins of Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park provide a place of solace for Anna Pigeon until their beauty is tainted by death.

Earth by David Brin
Fifty years in the future, scientists race against time to mend a black hole in the Earth's core before it destroys the entire planet within two years.

State of Fear by Michael Crichton
An eco-thriller takes readers to such far-flung locales as Paris, Iceland, Antarctica and the Solomon Islands.

Wildfire by Kenneth Goddard
Stumbling across the activities of a vicious professional assassin, Henry Lightstone and his team of wildlife agents uncover a link to the ICER Committee, a ruthless group of industrialists bent on destroying environmental resistors.

Bones of Coral by James Hall
Returning to Key West to investigate the death of his estranged father, Shaw Chandler uncovers evidence linking a double murder with a father-son team of experts in the art of illegal disposal of biochemical weapons.

Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen
A group of most unusual terrorists sets out to purge Florida of greed and corruption by attacking what they consider the root source – tourists.

Minutes to Burn by Greg Andrew Hurwitz
In the year 2007, scientists are accompanied by a team of Navy SEALs to position critical tectonic equipment on a deserted island in the Galapagos and find themselves immersed in a brutal war for survival that could determine the fate of the world.

The Secret of Life by Paul J. McAuley
In 2026, as a strange, fungus-like organism containing alien DNA begins to grow in the Pacific Ocean, threatening Earth's entire food chain, Dr. Mariella Anders joins a NASA expedition to uncover the secret of the lifeform.

The Covenant of the Flame by David Morrell
As extortion and murder become the lethal weapons being used to combat the worldwide destruction of natural resources, a young investigative reporter becomes caught between two brutal factions, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.

As the Wolf Loves Winter by David Poyer
Returning to Hemlock County, Pennsylvania, after serving two years in prison for setting the fire that killed his wife, "Racks" Halvorsen struggles to put his life back together, until a murder in the wilderness exposes a web of corruption in the National Forest Service and local industry.

Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson
Environmental aide Charlie Quibler is frustrated in his attempts to prove to the government that global warming has reached cataclysmic levels, a situation that is complicated when a promising technology is exploited for private interests.

Zodiac: The Eco Thriller by Neal Stephenson
Sangamon Taylor, an environmental extremist, sets out to discover the source of dangerously high levels of radiation in the Boston Harbor, teams up with some unlikely types, and battles corruption all the way to the level of a would-be president.