If you’re shopping the big book lists for December, add one more stocking stuffer for the thriller fans in your life: Death Watch, a sleek, tech-tinted suspense with ruthless pacing.
A winter storm strands travelers in Syracuse, a crowd-pleasing “mind reader” brushes a presidential front-runner and sees death coming, and an explosion rips the night. Pulled into a conspiracy that climbs from a stolen truck to the halls of power, he races a clock only he can feel, where the gift that might save a life could be the very thing that destroys him.
Author Tom Markert is president of InfraGard National Members Alliance, an FBI-affiliated nonprofit that connects the Bureau with private-sector owners and operators of critical infrastructure, and a graduate of the FBI Citizens Academy. InfraGard spans 77 chapters and tens of thousands of members across 16 sectors, giving Tom a front-row view of how real threat intelligence and resilience efforts work in practice. A Delray Beach City Commissioner and former global executive (P&G, Citi, Ipsos, Nielsen, Office Depot), he brings an international lens to modern security—and that experience fuels the urgency and plausibility of his fiction. He is also the author of the business bestseller You Can’t Win a Fight with Your Boss (HarperBusiness).
Renowned Death Watchers provided the following reviews:
“From the first shocking vision to the last perfectly cruel twist, Death Watch had me in its grip. Markert understands how our devices, our politics, and our private fears tangle—and he turns that into rocket fuel. It’s stylish, timely, and unrelenting. Clear your night and let this one take you.”
—Liza Andrews, Lunch Break and Facelift
“As a haunter, I live for timing, misdirection, and the perfect reveal—and Death Watch nails all three. The airport setting, social engineering, and ‘mind-reading’ hook feel chillingly plausible, and the twists never stop. Stylish, timely, and wickedly entertaining—this one lingers like fog.”
—Jan Knuth, owner/operator of Grey House Haunts; co-author of Not Afraid to Slay: Women of the Haunt Industry
“Markert marries high-tech paranoia to very human stakes. Death Watch coils tension with clean, confident prose and reveals that land exactly when they should. I felt the drumbeat in my chest and couldn’t look away. Riveting, modern, and impossible to shake.”
—Claudia Cataldi, journalist and TV host
Death Watch is available worldwide on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Bookscape, Foyles, Libris, Powell’s, Walmart, Waterstones, and your favorite indie.
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