The Sam Jameson Series

Where do you run when the good guys want you dead?

A Homeland Security counterspy survives a bomb on her own front lawn and finds the conspiracy that planted it running through her own chain of command, into Langley, and out to a foreign head of state.

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Bill W.
Been up the last 3 nites til 3 am, can’t put it down!
Nancy J.
Just started reading and do not want to put it down. No dinner tonight!
Mickey L.
Great series. You will sit up all night reading!
The Story

She died twice in one afternoon. Sam Jameson doesn’t remember much about it, and honestly, she’d rather keep it that way.

Special Agent Sam Jameson catches spies for Homeland Security. It’s a good week when nobody’s shooting at her. This is not a good week.

Someone drops a military-grade bomb on her front lawn. The DC cops want her in cuffs. Her own bosses are lying to her face. And every source she talks to ends up on a slab before she can ask a second question.

Sam has one thing going for her: she’s already been declared dead once, and it didn’t take. That won’t stop the people hunting her from trying again — including, quite possibly, the man who signs her paychecks.

As Sam and her fighter-pilot boyfriend Brock dig past a staged suicide, a shadowy mercenary outfit, and a dead man’s hidden ledger, they uncover a conspiracy that runs straight through Homeland Security, deep into Langley, and all the way to a foreign head of state marked for a very American kind of regime change.

Trust no one. Especially the people who are supposed to have your back.

Inferno Rising & Reckoning is the explosive opening to the million-selling Sam Jameson series, for readers of James Patterson, David Baldacci, Vince Flynn, Brad Thor, and Daniel Silva.

Special Agent Sam Jameson catches spies for Homeland Security. This week the people trying to kill her are the people she reports to.

She died twice in the line of duty. Now she’s back — and someone in her own agency wants her to stay dead.

Where It Sits On The Shelf

Genre & Subgenres

For readers of James Patterson, David Baldacci, Vince Flynn and Brad Thor.

Primary Genre

Espionage & Conspiracy Thriller

A bomb on a federal agent's own lawn, a chain of command that lies to her face, and a conspiracy running from Homeland Security into Langley and out to a foreign head of state. Built for readers who want the institution itself to be the antagonist.

For readers ofJames Patterson · David Baldacci · Vince Flynn · Brad Thor
The Heart Of It

Romantic Suspense

Sam and Brock are not a subplot, they are the leverage. Every escalation works because the opposition can reach one of them through the other. Suspense and romance are integral to each other here, not bolted together.

For readers ofCatherine Coulter · Karen Rose
Secondary Genre

Political & Financial Conspiracy

Follow the money: a private military contractor, Swiss accounts, and an oil company with a very specific view on a foreign government's next move. For readers who assume the real conspiracy is always about who profits.

For readers ofNelson DeMille · Steve Berry
What You're In For
1

She died twice in the line of duty. Now she’s back — and someone in her own agency wants her to stay dead.

2

A federal agent, a fighter pilot, and a bomb in the front yard: welcome to date night.

3

The people sworn to protect her just tried to kill her instead.

4

Six corpses and a bomb. And a boss she can no longer trust.

5

When Homeland Security itself is the enemy, who do you call?

A federal agent, a fighter pilot, and a bomb in the front yard: welcome to date night.

The people sworn to protect her just tried to kill her instead.

Zero Spoilers

The Tropes Inside

Government Conspiracy

The people sworn to protect her are the ones trying to kill her. All of them are suspects, including the one signing her paychecks.

Mole in Charge

The problem is not a leak somewhere in the building. The problem has a corner office and a parking space.

The Man Behind the Man

Behind the shooter is a contractor. Behind the contractor is a policy. You will not like who signed it.

Battle Couple

Sam and Brock do not merely love each other. They go to work together, armed, and neither one is safer for it.

Action Girl

She has been shot, bombed and declared dead once already. It did not take, and it did not slow her down.

Deadpan Snarker

She meets every threat with a joke and a loaded weapon, frequently in that order.

Private Military Contractors

An army with no flag, no oath and an invoice. They sit exactly where the money trail bends.

Honey Trap

Not every seduction in this book is about affection. Some of them are a line item.

In Medias Res

It opens after the explosion, not before. You spend the first book catching up, and that is deliberate.

What Readers Are Saying

Real Reviews, Real Readers

★★★★★

“Right up there with James Patterson, David Baldacci, Nelson DeMille, and Frederick Forsyth.”

Gene GeRueAmazon customer review
★★★★★

“It’s 5 a.m. and I just stayed up all night reading!”

Teresa Nallmanvia LJEmmerich.com
★★★★★

“Sharp, extremely well written, and scary as hell!”

Verified Readervia LJEmmerich.com
★★★★★

“Special Agent Sam Jameson is one very tough, gutsy lady… one of the best suspense/thriller books I have read in a long while. My new favourite suspense author.”

Loralei MoirReader review, Goodreads
★★★★★

“I love this series… Love this smart mouthed, sassy, sexy agent. I hope her luck holds in future books!”

Karla ThompsonReader review, Goodreads
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Who's Behind The Chaos

About The Author

Lars Emmerich, author of the Sam Jameson series

When Lars Emmerich was twelve, he went to an airshow. An F-16 flew over the crowd, low and fast and impossibly loud. Something stirred in his chest and tears formed in his eyes. It was love at first sight. Lars and the F-16 went on to enjoy fifteen incredible years together.

While Lars was a young lieutenant in Undergraduate Pilot Training, he read a Tom Clancy novel. It was his first exposure to the espionage and conspiracy thriller genre, and again it was love at first sight. “I will write stories like this one day,” he vowed solemnly.

He’s still trying to live up to that promise.

Lars Emmerich · USA Today Bestselling Author · 1,000,000+ Readers in 17 Countries

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What Readers Say
Bill W.
Been up the last 3 nites til 3 am, can’t put it down!
Clarke M.
Sam Jameson is one bad ass chick. Very well written books!
Mickey L.
Great series. You will sit up all night reading!