Books like Ground zero by F. Paul Wilson

A historical novel set in the 12th century, focusing on the building of a cathedral and the surrounding community's fortunes amidst historical events of the time.

Richard Preston’s nonfiction account investigates the biology, history, and global impact of African hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola and Marburg, weaving scientific analysis with the stories of outbreaks and laboratory research.

A techno‑thriller in report form, The Andromeda Strain follows an expert team in New Mexico as they confront a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism that threatens humanity.

Ground Zero is a children’s bestseller by Alan Gratz that follows the lives of adolescent boys and girls facing survival challenges amid terrorism in New York and Afghanistan.

A tense psychological thriller that explores deception and the complexities of interpersonal relations in a Swedish winter setting.

American Ground Zero is the extraordinary product of one photojournalist's decade-long commitment, a gripping, courageous collection of portraits and interviews of those whose lives were crossed by radioactive fallout. For twelve years beginning in 1951, the United states government conducted aboveground testing of nuclear weapons in the deserts of Nevada. For more than four decades it has tried to cover up the human and environmental devastation wrought by this testing. In American Ground Zero, Carole Gallagher has penetrated the veil of official secrecy and anonymity to document the incredible untold story of the Americans whose misfortune it was to live downwind of the nuclear detonations - those citizens described in a top-secret Atomic Energy Commission memo as "a low-use segment of the population"--And of civilian workers and military personnel exposed to radiation at the Nevada Test Site. The aboveground nuclear testing was "the. Most prodigiously reckless program of scientific experimentation in United States history," as Keith Schneider notes in his foreword to the book. Many of its 126 fallout clouds floated across the American West and eastward with radiation levels comparable to those released at Chernobyl. Yet residents of the downwind areas were consistently told that there was no danger, and were even encouraged to "participate in a moment of history" by coming out to watch these fallout. Clouds drifting over their homes. Abandoning her career as a successful New York photographer, Carole Gallagher moved to Utah in 1983 and spent the next seven years networking among radiation survivors' groups and finding people willing to be photographed and tell their story. She covered six downwind states including test site workers and atomic veterans. The result is a striking gallery of the undecorated casualties of an undeclared war. Never exploitative, Gallagher's. Photographs only rarely convey the subjects' considerable physical sufferings: instead, they invite the viewer to witness the beauty and value in these ordinary lives.

Retired agent Horace Christopher teams up with four other ex-intelligence officers to hunt for his cousin Paul, believed to be dead after a mysterious disappearance.

A thriller about a nuclear scientist turned murderer, and the man who tries to prevent a nuclear disaster.

When the Repairman Jack takes on a job to retrieve a stolen necklace, he is drawn into a concealed world of magic, winged monsters, and revenge, turning a routine recovery into a perilous adventure.

A group of executives is held hostage in a luxurious business retreat by a group of backwoods hunters, with the goal of demanding a ransom of unprecedented size.