Espionage Thrillers
An espionage thriller pits skilled operatives against a web of secrets and betrayals. It follows agents, analysts, or unlikely insiders who must outthink adversaries, survive tradecraft, and decide what to sacrifice for country or conscience. The plot moves with tight suspense and escalating stakes, driven by revelations that can topple institutions or end lives. Readers come for the intellectual puzzle, the pressure of moral gray zones, and the kinetic tension of missions carried out under extreme constraint.
An espionage techno-thriller places contemporary or near-future technology at the heart of the conflict. Artificial intelligence, neural interfaces, cyber weapons, or autonomous systems create new vulnerabilities and forms of power, forcing operatives to adapt traditional tradecraft to unprecedented dangers. Technical detail is plausible and consequential, and ethical questions about control, surveillance, and weaponization become as urgent as tactics in the field. The result combines procedural rigor with cinematic set pieces and ideas that echo real-world anxieties.
An alternate history espionage thriller reimagines a decisive divergence in the past and examines how that single change remakes alliances, institutions, and motives. By shifting one outcome, the story builds a world that is both familiar and unsettling, where loyalties and methods bend to new political realities. Careful worldbuilding makes the divergence credible while keeping the spy story central. Readers are drawn to the intellectual what-if and to the human cost when history turns on a different hinge.
City of Brides by Ben Wolfe
The first in the Nick Voss franchise of stories. Nick Voss was on the verge of graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy when a brutal rugby collision cost him everything. While he slept, a classified DARPA program stitched the neural imprint of a dead police officer into his brain. The AI was supposed to heal his traumatic brain injury using experimental nanotech.
It did, only to reactivate years later, when protocols wake a haunted woman who speaks to him only in his dreams. Nick and his AI, named Vivian, uncover a honeytrap that reaches into the highest ranks of Western defense. Guided by Vivian’s embedded counterespionage instincts, he follows the trail to Mariupol and into a web of seduction, betrayal, and statecraft. When Washington decides the risk is too great, those who built him move to erase him.
City of Brides is a relentless techno-thriller about loyalty, conscience, and what it costs when governments turn minds into weapons. When the only witness to the truth lives inside a single, compromised brain, there are no rules when it comes to survival.
STATUS: Work-In-Progress (WIP) with outline completed - Rough draft started. Espionage techno-thriller with a unique character origin, and the standout franchise potential of characters like Jason Bourne, James Bond, and Jack Ryan. The screenplay is simultaneously being written under my pseudonym, Anton Skolezar. ALL RIGHTS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
ESTIMATED WORD COUNT: 120,000 words.
1st three chapters completed by the end of 2025, with queries going out in early 2026 to literary agents on Query Tracker. Completion of the manuscript is anticipated in late 2026/early 2027, with direct queries to publishers in late 2027, dependent upon interest from agents
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Children of the Reich by Ben Wolfe
Paris, 1970. Beneath the glamour of the boulevards and the glittering lights of the European Reich lies a city of secrets. The world has been reshaped by a single twist of fate: Adolf Hitler was killed in 1941 by his own officers, and a new Reich rose in the aftermath. Twenty-eight years later, its power stretches from Berlin to Paris, rivaling the might of America and Britain.
Into this uneasy balance of power steps Jake Carter, a seasoned British agent who has spent fifteen years living in the shadows. Trained by the Royal Marines and the SAS, fluent in German, Russian, and American English, he has infiltrated the highest ranks of the SS. Now, recalled to Paris under Gestapo orders, Jake finds his cover slipping. Every glance feels like suspicion, every conversation a test of loyalty.
His assignment takes a dangerous turn when he is attached to the security detail of Jaina Heidler, one of the newly revealed twin children of Adolf Hitler, born from artificial insemination decades after his death as a populist move by an increasingly desperate high command. The world sees Jaina as a symbol of beauty and charisma, adored across the Reich. To Jake, she is both an opportunity and a threat. She whispers of betrayal, of fear for her life, and of her brother’s ruthless ambition to seize power and unlock the Reich’s atomic future.
Caught between duty to crown and country, the lure of trust in a woman who may be playing her own game, and the ever-watchful eye of the Gestapo, Jake must decide how far he will go. One false step could expose him as a spy. One misplaced trust could alter the future of nations.
Children of the Reich is a taut espionage thriller of loyalty, deception, and survival in a world where history has taken a darker path.
STATUS: Work-In-Progress (WIP) with outline completed - Stand-alone espionage thriller set in an alternate history. It could easily become a Jake Carter franchise series if it is well-received. ALL RIGHTS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
ESTIMATED WORD COUNT: 120,000 words.
1st three chapters completed by Summer of 2026, with queries going out late in 2026 to literary agents on Query Tracker. Completion of the manuscript is anticipated in 2027, with direct queries to publishers in late 2027, dependent upon interest from agents.
