Books

Nolan Kilkenny Series

About The Series

Like a lightning rod, Nolan Kilkenny always seems to be in the right place at the wrong time. The venture capitalist and former U.S. Navy SEAL lives on the cutting edge of science and technology—a place where innovative ideas promise untold wealth, and where greed and lust for power combine with lethal effect. Kilkenny races across the globe chasing down clues to derail dangerous schemes with catastrophic consequences. If you love action, conspiracies, secrets, scientific wizardry, innovative technology and exotic locales, Nolan Kilkenny delivers all that and more.

Novels in this series: Spyder Web(1999), Quantum (2000), Dark Ice (2003), Fatal Orbit (2004), The Secret Cardinal (2007) and Undeniable (2017). Reading the series in order is not required as each novel is written to stand on its own. If read in order, you will doubtless recognize some things along the way.

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Undeniable

A Nolan Kilkenny Thriller

 

DNA has freed the innocent, convicted murders, and proven paternity. But what happens when scientific progress reduces the miraculous molecule of life into a data storage device that is as easy to hack as a computer? We’ve trusted DNA evidence since the late 1980s—until now. And for Nolan Kilkenny, it’s a matter of death and life.

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The Secret Cardinal

A Nolan Kilkenny Thriller

 

Inspired by true events, masterful storyteller Tom Grace delivers his most provocative novel yet. In The Secret Cardinal, ex-Navy SEAL Nolan Kilkenny returns in an adventure that races from the grandeur of the Vatican across the vastness of Asia, ultimately involving China, the Mafia, and the conclave of cardinals that will elect the next pope.

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Fatal Orbit

A Nolan Kilkenny Thriller

 

In space, a technological nightmare orbits the Earth, stalking its prey. Sheathed in a black multifaceted skin, a secret all but invisible against the darkness of space, the killer satellite hunts with one of the deadliest weapons ever created. It is Zeus—and like the god of myth it hurls lightning from the heavens.

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Dark Ice

A Nolan Kilkenny Thriller

 

Deep in the frozen wasteland of Antarctica, researchers at a remote NASA lab bore through miles of glacial ice into a vast reservoir of water hidden for millions of years. But the greatest discovery isn’t the great lake buried beneath the ice—it’s what they’ve found teeming in its waters. Something amazing. Something alive. And it may hold that answers to the nature of life itself.

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Quantum

A Nolan Kilkenny Thriller

 

In 1948, a young German émigré reaches the threshold of a scientific vision: a theory of everything—the very blueprints for the construction of the universe that could surpass the theories of Einstein. But his hopeful dreams of a future in America collide with the nightmares of his past, and both the theorist and his work are seemingly lost forever.

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Spyder Web

A Nolan Kilkenny Thriller

 

 

Information: the most valuable commodity on Earth. International industrial espionage: the single greatest threat to a nation’s economic security. The CIA’s response: an ambitious, top-secret project that will unleash the greatest surveillance weapon ever created—Code Name: Spyder.

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The Liberty Intrigue

 

Ross Egan has quietly labored for years in the West African nation of Dutannuru—a tiny republican democracy that emerged from the wreckage of a brutal civil war that claimed the brilliant engineer’s wife and child. When a neighboring despot threatens Dutannuru with renewed violence, Egan is abruptly thrust onto the world stage at the center of the deadly international crisis.

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