Douglas E Richards Books in Order

A stand alone collaboration between Douglas E Richards and Joshua T Calvert, Nexus: A Science-Fiction Thriller brings their trademark blend of big speculative ideas, high stakes action, and near future science to a new story that pushes humanity close to the brink.

In the final Epic of Atlantis novel, Robert Shaw and his companions confront the last days of Atlantis and the full consequences of their time tampering. With enemy forces closing in across eras, they must choose what, and who, can be saved without destroying the future.

Reunited on an alternate Earth where the Roman Empire never fell, James, Hannah, and Wolf confront a full scale invasion as warships pour through widening tears in reality. To save both worlds, they must repair the fabric of existence itself before it collapses on everyone.

After barely averting interdimensional war, James Barron faces new rifts, impossible superstorms, and a swirling nexus left behind at Camp David. As conspiracies spread across worlds and Hannah Walker remains lost beyond a portal, he gambles everything to understand the anomaly and bring her back.

Decades after two scientists vanished while studying a mysterious sphere in Antarctica, reality starts breaking apart, a skyscraper disappears, and a jet crashes where it never could have flown. Physicist James Barron uncovers a widening breach to a ruthless parallel Earth preparing to invade.

Archaeologist Robert Shaw has spent his career chasing myths about Atlantis, Lemuria, and a world drowning flood. When he discovers a sentient starship buried on Earth, he and two allies are sent back to prehistory to stop a war between supercivilizations that could wipe out humanity.

After their first attempt to save Atlantis goes horribly wrong, Robert Shaw, Kira Shelton, and Matt Jones return to the ancient world with a device that can shield an entire civilization. There they face a vengeful genius and hidden puppet masters steering history toward ruin.

Nick Hall has used his mind reading implants to topple tyrants and terrorists, but his deadliest foe has survived, psychopath Troy Browning. Browning joins forces with a genetically engineered super soldier, forcing Hall into a desperate fight to stop a plan to enslave humanity.

Reclusive trillionaire inventor Oliver Scott keeps unveiling world changing technologies, and enhanced operative Liam Dunne finally learns why when a strange data file installs itself in his brain implant. As Scott’s true agenda comes into focus, Liam races to stop a future where one man owns humanity.

Agents Noah Harris and Ashley Flynn uncover hidden gateways linking Earth to multiple human populated planets, all seeded long ago by mysterious beings. When the empire next door plots to conquer our world, the pair must fend off an invasion that can step through walls instead of space.

After the US military quietly admits that UFOs defy known physics, science fiction writer Jason Ramsey becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth. His risky partnership with mercenary Tessa Barrett exposes a hidden agenda whose outcome could transform humanity, or erase it entirely.

Quantum computing prodigy Allie Keane stumbles onto a breakthrough that makes her the target of ruthless rivals and a secretive government agency. As operative Zachary Reed fights to keep her alive, they uncover an ancient technology that could rewrite life and death itself.

Physicist Kelly Connolly helps study an alien cube that can remake reality, then is forced on the run with black ops soldier Justin Boyd when enemies move to seize it. Unlocking the artifact’s power may save civilization or unleash changes that tear the universe apart.

Genius Otto Richter is hurled back to ancient Rome just as rival nations race to control twin alien cubes on Earth. While Kelly Connolly and Justin Boyd fight to reach him, one misstep in the past could obliterate modern history and everything they are trying to protect.

Inventor Elias Gibson creates a system that makes lying impossible, promising radical honesty in politics, business, and daily life. When powerful interests move to bury the technology, he is forced into a deadly struggle over whether enforced truth will save society or tear it apart.

LAPD detective Anna Abbott begins seeing brief, cryptic flashes of the future that ruthless enemies, human and alien, are desperate to control. Drawn into an interstellar conflict that has raged in secret for millennia, she must decide how to use her gift before it rewrites humanity’s fate.

Q5 director Lee Cargill controls technology that can send objects a split second into the past. When an off the books mission to assassinate Kim Jong-un goes wrong, operative Aaron Blake faces Chinese agents, vengeful enemies, and a terrifying new use for time travel that could kill millions.

When an alien probe lands deep in the Amazon rainforest, rival nations race to seize its game changing technology. A surgically enhanced operative is sent in alone, only to discover that the unoccupied craft has plans of its own and the true stakes reach far beyond Earth.

A billion dollar DARPA project to create artificial superintelligence is sabotaged, and operative Cameron Carr must track down the culprit. His investigation uncovers a global race to build godlike machines that could lift humanity to new heights or trigger its rapid extinction.

Mind reader Nick Hall can see memories, plans, and secrets inside any mind, making him the most dangerous man alive. When terrorists plot mass murder and a second, ruthless mind reader emerges, Hall must prevent global catastrophe while protecting the people he loves.

Neuroscientist Rachel Howard is close to a breakthrough that can beam skills and knowledge straight into the brain. After she collides with Secret Service agent Kevin Quinn, who believes he must kill the president, they uncover a mind hacking plot that could erase free will worldwide.

Physicist Nathan Wexler thinks he has found a way to send matter a fraction of a second into the past. When he is murdered and his fiancée Jenna escapes with his research, she must outwit ruthless enemies who understand just how world changing his “useless” discovery really is.

Nick Hall’s unwanted brain implants let him read minds and surf the internet with a thought. When terrorists seize the Academy Awards and threaten live mass murder, he is forced to reveal his abilities, igniting a global scramble to capture or control the most connected man on Earth.

Jihadist leader Omar Haddad seems invulnerable, shrugging off attacks with abilities that look supernatural. Quantum physicist Brennan Craft and black ops researcher Alyssa Aronson uncover a reality bending technology behind his power and must decide how far they will go to stop him.

After waking in a dumpster with no memory and voices in his head, Nick Hall learns he has brain implants that let him read minds and access the web. As assassins close in, he races to uncover who altered him and why his new abilities matter so much.

Scientist Erin Palmer has devoted her life to curing psychopathy after a killer destroyed her family. When her experiments appear to work, she is hunted by shadowy forces and drawn into an alien struggle over whether humanity should keep, or erase, its most ruthless instincts.

When Zachary and Jenna Lane watch their parents vanish through a shimmering portal, the quarrelsome siblings must work together to follow them. Each new world they visit is more dangerous than the last, and surviving long enough to bring their family home will test all their courage.

Middle schooler Ethan Pritcher has a bizarre problem, he sometimes swaps bodies with strangers. After waking up inside a famous action star just as a real killer targets him, Ethan and his sister Madison must juggle assassins, movie chaos, and school without losing Ethan forever.

In this sequel to Wired, genetic engineer Kira Miller refines a drug that temporarily boosts human intelligence to astonishing heights, at a terrible psychological cost. As she and operative David Desh recruit a secret team of enhanced scientists, enemies close in and buried secrets resurface.

Young fencers Kevin, Rachel, and Ben travel to a tournament on an Air Force base and stumble into a scheme to steal a devastating new weapon. Trapped in the middle of a real world terror plot, they must use quick thinking and sword skills to stop national disaster.

A routine trip through a portal goes wrong, leaving Ryan and Regan Resnick marooned on a hostile alien world full of predators and erupting lava. Getting home is only half the battle, because a terrifying weapon and a human traitor are waiting for them back on Earth.

In the second Prometheus Project adventure, siblings Ryan and Regan Resnick are the youngest members of a team studying a buried alien city. When mercenaries and a ruthless alien seize the complex and take the adults hostage, the kids are the only ones left to stop an invasion of Earth.

Genetic engineer Kira Miller discovers a way to push human intelligence into savant territory, at the cost of disturbing changes in personality. Ex special forces operative David Desh is sent to stop her alleged bioterror plot, only to find himself trapped in a much larger game.

Bored after moving to a remote research town, Ryan and Regan Resnick sneak into their parents’ ultra secure workplace and uncover a vast alien city hidden underground. When a freak accident leaves their mother near death and the adults missing, the kids must master alien tech to save her.