Rocket’s Red Glare

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Lee Child meets Tom Clancy in this tense new thriller from the world's bestselling thriller writer.

He's trained to fight America’s enemies overseas.
Now the battle has come home.

When a presidential candidate is assassinated during a summer retreat on Nantucket Island, the country is thrown into turmoil.

Enter Rocket’s Red Glare – a covert unit so classified it doesn’t officially exist. Led by former Special Forces operative Nat Phillips, this team is built to respond when national security collapses.

But what begins as a manhunt for a killer soon unravels into a global conspiracy stretching from Washington to foreign capitals.

To save his country, Phillips must face the unthinkable – because the next war has already begun.

© James Patterson 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026