Michael R. Cole Books in Order

Fisherman Rick Napier is struggling financially when a vanished vessel and a missing diver draw him into a terrifying discovery. A secret experiment has released an enormous hybrid predator into the Atlantic, threatening everyone in its path.

Savaged boats, missing residents and a survivor’s account force police chief Morgan Sydney to confront a monster in a once-peaceful lake. He gathers an unlikely group of allies to understand the creature’s origins and find a way to stop it.

After a hurricane, disappearances and mangled sea life alarm a coastal Florida town. Newly transferred police officer Leonard Riker discovers that a forty-foot thresher shark has claimed the harbor waters and is attacking anything that enters its territory.

Marine biologist Julie Forster notices dead whales and missing fishermen near the island resort where she works. Investigating the disturbances reveals an escaped shark-crustacean hybrid whose armored body and insatiable appetite make the surrounding waters increasingly deadly.

After a bank robbery goes wrong, a group of fugitives hide in a secluded cabin beside frozen Lake Shadow. They hope isolation will keep the police away, but the lake's mysterious history complicates their search for a safe refuge.

Hired to rescue hostages from an island research facility, Rob Cashen's mercenaries find abandoned weapons and ruined outposts. The missing bodies point to genetically altered scorpions, and the team must cross the jungle while the growing swarm searches for food.

Patrolling during a severe winter storm, deputy Ron Weller finds wrecked vehicles and missing drivers near Devil's Rock. Tracks lead him into the forest, where an armored, starving creature turns his search for survivors into a desperate struggle to escape.

A rescue mission brings Victor Seymour's mercenaries to a secret island facility where hostile troops are already retreating. Discovering an ancient extraterrestrial predator, Seymour must save his dwindling team and prevent the creature from carrying its killing spree beyond the island.

As a zombie infection overwhelms civilization, Marine corporal Reimer joins a mission to retrieve a researcher who may possess a cure. The scientist is hidden in Montana territory so heavily infected that ordinary rescue operations have become impossible.

In a fractured world devastated by nuclear war, cyborg mercenary Firebird accepts a job to capture a woman alive. Betrayed and shot down, he must cross a landscape of violent gangs, mutated creatures, and rebellion to survive.

Retired marine Rick Eilerman is kidnapped and reunited with his former fireteam on a remote island. Promised freedom if they kill its other occupant, they discover a camouflaged hybrid predator and a deadly connection between their captors and their past.

After a cloned megalodon escapes toward Georgia, its creators enlist scientists to recapture it. Their desperate solution is to release another experiment, an enormous prehistoric snake, setting up a confrontation that threatens everyone caught between the two predators.

An experimental shark combining megalodon and great white DNA escapes to an island community and begins killing indiscriminately. Sheriff Nick Piatt gathers unlikely allies to stop the nearly bulletproof predator and confront the scientist responsible for creating it.

When visitors disappear from a northern Michigan resort, owner Greg Goodman joins the sheriff in investigating strange activity around the lake. Their discovery of an unfamiliar creature brings a widening threat, government intervention and the attention of a secretive organization.

Disappearing people and mutilated wildlife disturb the peace of Oak Grave Forest after fifty years of silence. Leading a search party into the woods, officer Shane Alter discovers that a ravenous humanoid predator has awakened and begun hunting again.

In a world ruined by nuclear war, infected wanderer Pearce enters Tidal Valley searching for a flower that can cure him. Rescuing a family makes him the target of a violent gang, adding human pursuers to the valley's monstrous dangers.

A marine squad sent to rescue hostages discovers its mission zone is overrun by prehistoric predators. When flying reptiles destroy their means of escape, Akira Sakai's soldiers must cross dense forest and marshland while hungry raptors pick them off.

Kira Brine hires friends to restore her cottage in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, but strange activity in the surrounding woods disrupts their plans. A genetically engineered arachnid begins stalking them, using powerful claws, immobilizing venom, and webs that make escape nearly impossible.

Seven friends take a houseboat to an isolated lake for a relaxing holiday, only to encounter strange slime and bloodless animal carcasses. When one friend disappears, Alana discovers enormous genetically engineered leeches that can pursue their victims across water and land.

Detective Luke Jansen investigates shark attacks with wounds resembling chainsaw cuts. When marine biologist Elise Sheldon identifies a supposedly extinct predator, they join forces to prove it exists and uncover why a creature with spiraling teeth has returned to coastal waters.

A string of disappearances draws police chief Nico Medrano into a confrontation with an enormous megalodon terrorizing his island. As he races to protect the community, violent criminals hiding nearby create another deadly threat he cannot afford to ignore.

A gigantic tentacled predator rises from the deep, bringing crushing strength and a hunger for new prey. Reaching the waters around Diamond Green island, it turns its attention from the creatures of the abyss to the humans living above.

Ronald Baker's mercenaries reach an island research station to investigate lost contact with its staff. Giant carnivorous crabs destroy their transport and force them inland, where dwindling ammunition and a failed laboratory offer little protection against the approaching creatures.

Single father and police officer Royce Dashnaw hoped for a quieter life in a Michigan resort town. When genetically enhanced fish begin stripping swimmers to the bone, he and his partner must evacuate a crowded lake before the attacks multiply.

Searching for abducted civilians, Captain Trent Livingston's special forces unit reaches an enemy laboratory on a remote planet. Biological experiments have produced an undead outbreak, and the team must destroy the facility before the infection escapes into the wider galaxy.

Ex-convict Valentine Krane hopes for a fresh start beside Lake Lucas until a violent death makes him a suspect. As police focus on his past, radioactive crabs with claws capable of tearing through protective armor turn the lake into a feeding ground.

Retired sheriff Dakota McCullough and his son Glenn, now holding the same job, investigate disturbing events around Saw Ridge. Their strained relationship faces a deadly test when toxic dumping awakens a massive marine predator and threatens the waterside community.

An exploding yacht is only the beginning of the strange events overwhelming Maxwell Island's inexperienced police chief. As disappearances and underwater electrical disturbances mount, Silvia Remar must challenge official explanations and discover what has risen from the deep.

Rancher William Boone initially blames coyotes for mutilated livestock, until bodies reveal a far greater threat. Escaped prehistoric predators are hunting across Eastland County, driven by an extreme metabolism that forces them to consume enormous quantities of flesh each day.

Giant marine predators dominate the Atlantic, and police chief Nico Medrano struggles to evacuate his island. When the military provokes a monstrous kraken, Nico and marine biologist Denise devise a desperate plan to turn its megalodon rival against it.

Marine biologist Jason Rose investigates violent underwater sounds, bloody boats, and a mutilated whale shark off Florida. He discovers giant pistol shrimp mutated by toxic exposure, whose snapping claws generate destructive heat and shockwaves as they swarm the coast.

Sent to investigate a silent research station on an ocean planet, Corporal Richard Carson's marines find ruined buildings and terrified survivors. A colossal crustacean leads an attacking swarm, leaving the stranded soldiers to defend the wreckage without transport or communications.

Investigating disappearances in a woodland county, former serviceman Thomas Rodney discovers enormous carnivorous wasps. A secret military unit intervenes, drawing him into an operation to destroy the hive before the mutant insects spread across the entire western coast.

In 2176, a global government enjoys long lives and concentrated wealth while Earth's dwindling resources depend on fuel mined on Mars. Under military-backed colonial rule, resentment grows among people who believe their world needs a different political future.

Samuel Ziler's mercenaries enter a genetics facility in the Congo expecting to retrieve research after a blackout. Instead, giant mosquitoes emerge from the forest, forcing the team to fight insects that drain victims within seconds and threaten to multiply.

Rogue former soldier Natalie Lyster leads a mining operation on a volcanic planet for a corrupt government. Pursued by an enemy strike force, she finds both sides brought down by enormous alien wasps awakened around the dangerous mountain they have been exploiting.

Escaped prisoners and a vigilante track a militia leader to another planet seeking revenge. They find the settlement already devastated and discover a derelict ship harboring a dormant cyborg built for slaughter, turning their pursuit into a confrontation with something worse.

Mercenaries sent to seize research from an island laboratory find the terrorists already destroyed by something worse. Sergeant Major Whitmore's team must contain an intelligent, vicious experimental creature before it escapes the island and turns its appetite on the wider world.

Marines dispatched to a silent mining station on a volcanic planet expect terrorists, but discover the excavation has breached an underground ecosystem. Stranded amid giant insects and hunting raptors, Lieutenant Gamble's soldiers must fight through the ruined facility to survive.

During a mission to capture a biological weapons scientist, Captain Andrew Serrano's team is forced into the ocean when their target sinks the ship. A genetically altered shark begins hunting the stranded soldiers, its armored body resisting their weapons.

Mutated by an experimental growth hormone, a huge crab and an enhanced shark turn Florida's beaches into hunting grounds. Investigating a wreck and corporate secrets, online creator Gwen Kingston hopes to stop the carnage by turning the predators against each other.

After eliminating giant hornets in Wyoming, G.O.R.E. Sector discovers another predator has been crushing cabins and abducting scouts. Captain Thomas Rodney's team encounters a grieving family in its path and must confront a huge snake protected by nearly impenetrable skin.

An escaped alien killer lands in a wooded area on Earth and begins slaughtering campers and hikers for pleasure. Its hunt leads to two isolated cabins, where a disgraced former police officer becomes an unlikely obstacle to the creature's entertainment.

Retired Sergeant Major Whitmore is drawn to a Pacific research station and forced to confront a recreated version of the creature he once survived. Its ability to infect other organisms threatens an outbreak only he and unlikely allies can stop.

A damaged freight train releases prehistoric creatures into an isolated valley, drawing Faith Lorrell into a fight for survival. Pursued by dinosaurs and the corporation hiding their existence, she joins unlikely allies while an enormous tyrannosaur claims the territory.

Sent to dismantle a pirate drug operation in the Andaman Sea, former soldier Kane Carpenter finds wrecked vessels and vanished crews. His team soon faces an enormous squid whose hunger and exposure to sunken drugs have made it catastrophically dangerous.

A military team arrives at a remote mountain outpost expecting routine duty and finds the base destroyed and its occupants missing. An earthquake has released an ancient predator beneath the ice, turning the replacement soldiers into its next targets.

Fleeing after killing a drug lord, hitman Trenton Loar and his collaborators enter a forest stalked by a murderous Bigfoot. Joining forces with a vacationing couple, he discovers a secretive organization's exploitation of the creature and the dangerous truth in its blood.

Scientist Elliot Alere resurrects an extinct marine predator hoping for medical discoveries, but the creature escapes near a quiet coastal island. Wracked by guilt, he joins a dangerous recovery mission as the armored giant begins killing in the surrounding waters.

A corporation uses a condemned killer to test an experimental serum, transforming him into a stronger and more voracious creature. When Gale Frye escapes, the scientists who hoped to control their creation become targets of his amplified appetite for violence.

An underwater mining station has gone silent in the Half-Moon Trench, and its escape pods never reached the surface. Thomas Rodney leads Raptor Pack into the depths, where evidence of slaughter exposes secret experiments and deadly creatures still inside.

Investigating pollution off Pelican Grove, EPA agent Julian Reed discovers illegally dumped chemicals and a trail of mutilated victims. A great white shark has survived the contamination and become a stronger predator, forcing Julian to hunt it before more people die.

Missing vessels bring Thomas Rodney and Raptor Pack to a Pacific island nation. They discover a mutated nautilus capable of crushing warships, forcing G.O.R.E. Sector to confront an armored predator determined to dominate the surrounding sea and destroy its challengers.

Sent to inspect a facility studying a dangerous meteorite, Raptor Pack witnesses a medical experiment become a massacre. A wounded former marine transforms into a powerful killer, and G.O.R.E. Sector must stop him before he escapes into populated territory.

Raptor Pack follows evidence of illicit experiments to a remote Pacific island, hoping to expose a secretive corporation. Ruined laboratories and missing personnel give way to attacks by mutated reptiles, including a towering predator that threatens to overwhelm the team.

Investigating meteorite fragments near a Michigan town, Armand discovers that the object which crashed into the forest was alive. As people disappear, he joins local residents against an armored extraterrestrial predator designed for relentless slaughter.

Excavating an ancient meteorite on a remote island, a powerful corporation discovers a mineral promising limitless energy. An explosion releases a transformed prehistoric predator, leaving security operative Lon Bergis to lead survivors against the consequences of the dig.

Scientists restore an enormous prehistoric predator, only for it to escape and begin killing across a company reservation. Army veteran Jethro Hairston leads the defense, but attempts to contain the creature repeatedly increase the casualties instead of stopping its rampage.

Following a dying senator's warning, Raptor Pack travels to Iraq to investigate a hidden research site and intercept a stolen meteorite sample. Inside, the team finds slaughtered personnel and escaped giant centipedes, turning its pursuit into a battle for survival.

A genetically engineered hybrid escapes military transport and begins hunting in a forest where filmmakers have established camp. Its creator arrives with armed contractors hoping to recapture it, but the weapon proves deadlier and less controllable than anyone anticipated.

Pursuing an arms dealer through islands in the South China Sea, former Navy SEAL Elliot Kittner expects armed resistance. Instead, his team encounters a swift prehistoric predator whose teeth can defeat their armor and turn the mission into a fight to survive.

Terrorists thaw an enormous predatory insect from Antarctic ice, threatening military bases and a populated colony. A rogue marshal and a scientist must discover how to stop it before the attackers release other creatures buried beneath the frozen continent.

A G.O.R.E. Sector team discovers an expanding colony of lethal arachnid mutants in the Sarawat Mountains. With the creatures advancing on Fort Thunder, the soldiers at the converted research base become the region's last defense against the swarm.

After the kraken's defeat, missing ships and strange underwater storms signal a new threat. Nico Medrano and Denise Rita discover that a gigantic electric eel is challenging the megalodon O'Brien, bringing an old rivalry to a devastating confrontation.

Drilling for a biological weapon triggers volcanic eruptions on the planet Neraka and enrages its formidable native predator. As the creature attacks the invaders, criminal warlord Abraham faces a reckoning within the destruction his own enterprise unleashed.