Megan Carney
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America
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I've been writing since I jotted down a story about a talking hamburger on the pages of my father's day planner when I was six. During college, I was published as an academic and as a short story writer. Now I write technothrillers. But I'd like to think they're not just thrillers. They're a touch literary, because that's how I started. A little feminist, because I apologize less these days. Very technical, because details are important. I genuinely believe well-written stories are a tool for self-reflection and improvement. We never see ourselves clearly, but sometimes we get a glimpse of ourselves in a character. Stories let us process our emotions, wrestle with hard decisions, and explore the consequences of our actions. The stories we tell ourselves matter because that is how we make and remake ourselves. Telling (and reading) meaningful stories is how we get a better understanding of experiences we haven't lived.
Megan Carney's books
Genres: Commercial Fiction, Thriller, Suspense
I spin the whiskey glass in my shaking hand. “I can’t do this job. I know how I survive; I’m a cockroach.” Tiny looks confused. “Is that some sort of Kafka reference?” “I survive because no one cares enough to squash me.” Now is not the time to mention all the times I’ve played snitch. “If I take this job, I’ll need protection from someone. I’ll have to choose a side.” “If you were Hu’s man, I could protect you.” “If I were Hu’s man, I’d be a criminal.” Again, Tiny looks confused. “Aren’t you already?” ***** Dan Mackenzie, an alcoholic ex-cop, ends up in Hong Kong with nothing to lose. Against his will, he becomes both a criminal and a snitch. When Dan refuses the wrong job, the Little Caesar gang kidnaps his niece to force his cooperation. Kevin Fellows, a CIA field agent, comes to Hong Kong to...
Genres: Thriller, Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
In Amsterdam, Navy Trent fought terrorists. In Romania, she infiltrated an organized crime ring. In North Korea, she collected intelligence from a military base. But she's never had to fight a friend before. In a country she thought she knew. Her own. A dangerous web of conspiracy theories and racist death threats has stretched over Des Moines, IA. Navy's team must trace the lines of the conspiracy without getting caught themselves. And then survive what the terrorists are planning.
Genres: Thriller, Womens Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
A North Korean defector and cyber warrior, Min Gyu, decides to use Navy Trent as his ticket out of the backwards regime. Min Gyu promises he can destroy North Korea's nuclear weapons program. But only if Jackson retrieves him. Navy must decide how much she's willing to risk for a stranger, and how many of her principles she's willing to sacrifice to bring Jackson home.
Genres: Espionage, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
The problem with killing her enemies, Navy Trent learns, is there's no one left to fight. So when Byron Macalester asks Navy to go undercover to save his daughter, Navy says yes. Because she owes him. Because the story of a woman falling in love with the wrong man echoes her past. Because the men she killed a year ago have never left her. She'll go even though it may cost her the one worthy thing to come into her life in the past year, her relationship with Jackson. In Hackerville, Byron will discover the man he thought was a monster is just a victim. Jackson will discover the woman he loves might actually love him back. And Navy will discover survival is about more than knowing how to kill.
Genres: Espionage, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Her life in this universe was optional. It had always been true, she supposed. But the truth hadn't confronted her until she had shoved her knife into a man's stomach and felt the warm, thick gush of his blood mixing with hers in the cuts on her palms. ***** A sabotaged CIA operation makes Navy Trent a captive. But surviving the kidnapping is just the beginning of her ordeal. The CIA will kill her if she doesn't stay quiet. The saboteurs will kill her if she does. Navy is forced into a high-tech, high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse where only her wits - and a little bit of luck - can keep her alive.
Genres: Science Fiction (Sci-Fi), Speculative Fiction, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Her name is Sarina Wocek. Her breath is poison. She was not born out of love. Twenty-three years ago, government officials traced the budding epidemic of hemorrhagic fever HF186-2A in south Florida to the Wocek family and their adorable six-week-old daughter, Sarina. Her father, Gregory, admitted his role in genetically engineering a biological weapon with pride. She was taken to a lab hidden in a rural area of New Hampshire. She hasn't left since. Her government keepers could cure her, but they won't. Genetically engineering a child to be a weapon of mass destruction, that's unethical. Refining a weapon of mass destruction that someone else created? That's just being clever. After twenty-three years of captivity, she escapes. She crosses an ocean to put her father and the lab behind her, but it's not enough. When she sees the first bleeding sore, she knows she didn't leave the virus behind either....