Thomas Greanias Books in Order

If you want the core Atlantis adventure: Raising Atlantis → The Atlantis Prophecy → The Atlantis Revelation.
If you prefer Conrad Yeats in chronological order: The Virgin City → Raising Atlantis → The Atlantis Prophecy → The Atlantis Revelation.
If biblical and time bending thrillers appeal to you: The Promised War → The 34th Degree.
If you enjoy near future political technothrillers: The War Cloud → Red Glare.
If ancient Rome conspiracies sound tempting: Dominium Dei → Gods of Rome.

Thomas Greanias writes big canvas thrillers that turn ancient mysteries and modern headlines into fast, propulsive stories. He is best known for the Conrad Yeats Atlantis novels, starting with Raising Atlantis, which helped bring early ebook publishing into the mainstream.

He was born in 1965 in Wilmette, Illinois, a lakeside suburb north of Chicago, and grew up with Lake Michigan on one side and the city skyline on the other.

As a teenager he attended New Trier High School in nearby Winnetka, then went on to Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, where he earned both his bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism. That training gave him a reporter's habit of chasing sources, documents and small out of the way details.

After college he moved into reporting full time. Greanias worked as a journalist and on air correspondent in Washington, DC, covering politics and national security for NBC affiliates and appearing in newspapers and magazines. Spending his days around Capitol Hill and the Pentagon left him steeped in the language of intelligence briefings, closed door hearings and classified programs that later surface, in fictional form, throughout his novels.

Fiction was always in the background. While still working in news, he began to imagine thrillers that would tie together his interests in archaeology, faith, physics and power. The first to really take hold was Raising Atlantis, a story about a lost city under Antarctic ice. Greanias initially released it himself as an ebook, where it found a wide audience long before digital reading was common, and it was later picked up by a major publisher and expanded into a bestselling trilogy.

Those books, which also include The Atlantis Prophecy and The Atlantis Revelation, introduced readers to archaeologist Conrad Yeats and Vatican linguist Serena Serghetti. The pair return in prequels and side stories like The Virgin City, The Alignment Ingress and Raising Atlantis: The Lost Chapters, where Greanias plays with everything from star maps in Washington, DC, to theories about parallel universes at the bottom of the world. The common thread is a sense that old stones and sacred texts still hide unfinished business.

He is just as comfortable writing in the near future as he is in deep antiquity.

With the Sam Deker novels The Promised War and The 34th Degree, he sends an Israeli counterterrorism agent pinballing between present day missions and ancient or wartime battlefields, using speculative technology to question what history really is. His Dominium Dei stories and Gods of Rome shift to first century Rome, following a hunted playwright who collides with an underground Christian order and a paranoid emperor. Standalone thrillers such as The War Cloud and Red Glare move into political and military suspense, imagining how fragile modern systems might be in the face of coordinated attacks.

Greanias is also an entrepreneur, having founded Atlantis Media Corp to publish digital fiction, audio and augmented reality projects, including collaborations that feed into an augmented reality game world. He lives with his family in Pacific Palisades, California, and still approaches new ideas with the curiosity of a reporter, testing how far he can push a what if scenario before it collides with real science, real history and the real anxieties of the moment.