Contemporary conspiracy thriller / domestic-thriller / corporate-espionage
96 Hours
A STRANGER ON THE ROAD. A DEADLY SECRET. NINETY-SIX HOURS TO SURVIVE.
On a quiet highway outside Greybridge, the Harper family almost runs over a bloodied stranger staggering out of the dark. Ben wants to keep driving. Sarah, the emergency nurse, makes him stop. Gabe is barely conscious — but five words change everything. The police arrive impossibly fast. By morning the news is calling Gabe a violent fugitive. The HARPERS never wanted to be involved — but they stopped the wrong man at the wrong moment, and now everyone who came in contact with him is a loose end. Greybridge Global will burn down to hide what they saw.
The Books
READ IN ORDER
Every title in the series, in reading order. Choose how you enter.
The Story
ABOUT THIS SERIES
A stranger on the road. A deadly secret. Ninety-six hours to survive.
On a quiet highway outside Greybridge, the Harper family almost runs over a bloodied stranger staggering out of the dark.
Ben wants to keep driving. Sarah, the emergency nurse, makes him stop. Gabe is barely conscious — but five words change everything.
The police arrive impossibly fast and ask what Gabe said before they ask what happened to him. By morning the news is calling Gabe a violent fugitive who escaped custody.
The HARPERS never wanted to be involved — but they stopped the wrong man at the wrong moment, and now everyone who came in contact with him is a loose end.
Over four books and ninety-six continuous hours, the Harper family is hunted, separated, psychologically dismantled and forced into choices they never imagined themselves capable of making — by Greybridge Global, a private organization with the full weight of government behind it that will burn down to hide what they saw.
96 HOURS is the original four-book conspiracy thriller, told hour by hour from inside the family's nightmare: fast, brutal and almost completely blind.
A stranger on the road. A deadly secret. 96 hours to survive.
Reader Promise
A four-book, hour-by-hour conspiracy thriller told in ninety-six continuous hours. Fast, brutal and almost completely blind — experienced from inside a family's terror as a private organization decides they have seen too much to be allowed to keep living.
The Characters
MEET THE PLAYERS
Protagonist
Ben Harper
A 43-year-old mechanic and small-business owner who stops for a dying stranger and pulls his family into Greybridge's orbit. He broke under Greybridge's interrogation and gave them just enough.
Protagonist
Sarah Harper
A 41-year-old senior emergency-department nurse who makes him stop. Sees the danger earlier than Ben, and makes a split-second choice that saves one life and shatters another.
Protagonist
Emily Harper
A 17-year-old whose attempt to expose the truth helps Greybridge locate the family. Her first kill is necessity; later violence becomes easier.
Protagonist
Jack Harper
A 9-year-old, the human measure of what remains worth saving. His death-obituary already has a school photograph.
Protagonist / Greybridge weapon
Gabriel 'Gabe' Rourke
A 38-year-old former Greybridge operator who left. The weapon who knows what Greybridge does. He has not only been running from Conrad — he has been moving toward him.
Antagonist / architect
Conrad Miller
A 52-year-old Greybridge Global founder and executive who has ordered lives erased from the safety of his office. At Hour 96 he finally meets the consequences he spent a lifetime avoiding.
The World
Greybridge
A company town dominated by Greybridge Global — a private organization built on surveillance, influence, information control and the quiet removal of people who become inconvenient. The Harpers' nightmare begins on the roads outside it and ends inside its clean rooms.
Locations
- The Road
- The House
- The Workshop
- The Mobile Command Center
- The Clean Rooms
- The Archive
- The Lantern Site
Factions
- Greybridge Global
- Operation Lantern
- The Harpers
- The Resistance
Artefacts
- The Death Packages
- The Prewritten Narratives
- The Archive Files
Terminology
- Greybridge Global
- The private surveillance and security organization built on influence and information control.
- The Death Packages
- Prewritten narratives Greybridge turns into outcomes — murder made administration.
- Operation Lantern
- The system designed to ensure that when Greybridge removes someone, the truth disappears with them.
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