Matthew Fults

The Bottom Line: Voted the Year’s Best Action Thriller in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Messenger for the Dead begins as an elite Norwegian special forces sniper, stationed atop Oslo’s famed Opera House, steadies his scope on a mysterious sailing yacht drifting in the icy waters of the Inner Oslofjord. The vessel is towing a black Zodiac—an ominous clue in an international manhunt for Aadan Mukhtaar, the […]

The Bottom Line: A sophisticated terrorism thriller that lionizes investigative journalism while creating a series-worthy protagonist in Mathieu James. Fans of Terry Hayes and Alex Berenson will love Fults’ debut novel. The Scotland Project opens in a barn in Wales, where a group of men sit playing cards amidst a formidable cache of rocket propelled grenades, automatic weapons, fertilizer and petrol. In 24 hours, their leader