Books like Spark by John Twelve Hawks

In 2044, teenager Wade Watts lives for the virtual utopia OASIS, where he hunts legendary puzzles from old pop culture for a hidden prize that could change the world.

Neal Stephenson’s cyberpunk classic follows hacker Hiro as he confronts a deadly digital drug in a slick, future Metaverse full of hackers, virtual reality, and ancient Sumerian intrigue.

A weary father and his young son journey across a bleak, post‑apocalyptic America, battling cannibals, starvation, and a harsh winter in a desperate quest for safety and a glimpse of remaining civilization.

William Gibson’s debut Sprawl novel, *Neuromancer*, blends cyberpunk with a visionary digital future, following a hacker’s final job against a powerful AI. It earned Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick awards.

Four‑year‑old physics professor Jason Dessen is abducted and drugged, waking in a dystopian world where his family and reality are altered, forcing him to confront a formidable foe and the darkest parts of himself.

After a terrorist attack in San Francisco, 17‑year‑old Marcus and his friends are held by the Department of Homeland Security; when released, they find their city under total surveillance and decide to fight back.

A science‑fiction thriller in which a self‑replicating nanobot army, engineered through genetic algorithms, takes on a human and collective efforts to contain it.

Neal Stephenson explores World War II cryptography and 21st‑century data security through intertwined stories of a wartime code‑breaker, his grandson, and a secret mission to create a "data haven."

A tech‑savvy employee’s journey into a powerful internet company spirals from ambition to obsession, revealing the dark side of data privacy, social media, and a future where surveillance and corporate control blur boundaries.

Spook Country is a science‑fiction thriller by William Gibson that explores the underworld of intelligence agencies, espionage, and high‑tech surveillance.

Michael Crichton’s 2006 satirical techno‑thriller, the last novel published under his own name, blends science‑fiction, suspense, and legal intrigue to explore the limits of genetic engineering.

Jack Reacher is thrust into a desperate 61‑hour battle to protect a lone woman in Bolton, South Dakota, after a tour bus crashes in a brutal snowstorm and a cold‑blooded assassin begins to hunt them both.

When crime lord Manuel Perrine escapes prison, he seeks revenge on Detective Michael Bennett and everyone he loves. A tense hunt unfolds as the FBI’s witness‑protection program shelters Bennett’s family on a rural California farm.

A high‑stakes thriller where a literary agent, a CIA operative, and an author collide as a dangerous manuscript threatens careers, secrets, and lives across New York, Copenhagen, and Zurich.

Detective Michael Bennett is thrust into a high‑stakes battle against a team of lethal assassins whose next target could ignite a Cold War‑era conflict, forcing him to protect the U.S. president during a UN summit in New York.

John Keller is a professional hit‑man whose quiet New York life turns deadly when a phone call sends him halfway across the country to eliminate a target. His efficiency masks deep loneliness and self‑questioning.

Cassie Hobbes has been working with the FBI since she was a teenager. Now twenty-three years old, she and her fellow Naturals have taken over running the program that taught them everything they know. As a unit, they're responsible for identifying new Naturals--and solving particularly impossible cases. When their latest case brings back a ghost from their past, Cassie and the other Naturals find themselves racing against the clock--and reliving their own childhood traumas.In a small, coastal town in Maine, there has been a rash of teen suicides--or at least, that's what the police believe. Mackenzie McBride, age twelve, thinks differently. Desperate to make herself heard, she stands at the top of a lighthouse, threatening to jump... unless the FBI agents who rescued her from a kidnapper at age six come to hear her out.Enter the Naturals. It doesn't take Cassie long to realize that Mackenzie isn't bluffing: she truly is convinced that the suicides are murder, and she really will jump if she can't get the FBI to believe her. To the outside world, Mackenzie is nothing more than a traumatized child. But so was Cassie, once upon a time. So were Michael, Dean, Sloane, Lia, and Celine. With a storm rolling in off the ocean and Mackenzie's position becoming more precarious by the moment, the Naturals have very little time to get to the truth about the deaths--and about twelve-year-old Mackenzie McBride.

Kit Fielding, a celebrated horse‑racing hero, must safeguard his twin sister’s marriage from scandal, only to find himself entangled in a deadly feud with a ruthless robber baron and a household adversary.

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.

When a false‑flag plot threatens an unprovoked war with Iran, former CIA operative John Wells and his ex‑colleagues race across the globe for hard evidence before the U.S. government gives in to pressure.

When a white‑collar drug broker’s neighborhood neighbor is murdered, Jack Price learns the hit was aimed at him. With the lethal Seven Demons behind the attack, he must use his cyber‑security empire and old contacts to survive and exact revenge.