Book cover for Cold Burn: A National Parks Thriller by A. J. Landau, Jeff Ayers and Jon Land

Cold Burn

A National Parks Thriller

2025 Released
336 Pages
6-7 Hours
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Minotaur BooksISBN 9781250877376

Agent Michael Walker returns when multiple deaths at Glacier Bay National Park are just the first steps in a potential global disaster.

National Park Service investigator Michael Walker is battling smugglers stealing priceless artifacts when he’s dispatched to Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska, where, in the first stage of a potential global disaster, a team of scientists has gone missing.

Meanwhile, in Florida’s Everglades National Park, FBI special investigator Gina Delgado traces the murder of an environmental science intern back to another U.S. Geological Survey team’s ongoing experiments that are decimating the fragile ecosystem. That is before she’s dispatched to the scene of a sunken U.S. nuclear submarine, the entire crew of which has inexplicably been killed.

The connection between these disparate investigations lies in a deadly prehistoric organism, frozen for thousands of years in the ice until global warming brings it back to life in what could mean the death of all life on Earth. An organism that a rogue billionaire sees as the ultimate fuel source and a Russian strongman views as the ultimate weapon that can shift the global balance of power forever. Against that backdrop, Walker and Delgado find themselves desperately doing battle across multiple fronts against an ancient, unstoppable enemy.

A. J. Landau

A. J. LANDAU is the pseudonym for multiple authors. Jeff Ayers, reviewer, former-librarian, and author; Jon Land, the award-winning, bestselling author and co-author of more than fifty books; and Jon Lindstrom, Emmy-nominated actor, filmmaker and best-selling crime-fiction author. Ayers lives in Seattle, Washington, Land lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and Lindstrom divides his time between Los Angeles and New York.

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Jeff Ayers

Jeff Ayers is the author of several books, including Voyages of Imagination. He has been a book reviewer for the Associated Press, Library Journal, and Booklist, and currently reviews for Criminal Element and firstCLUE. He is a retired public librarian and lives near Seattle, Washington.

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