Fans of sci-fi, thrillers and horror love the novels of MF Thomas

“…tremendously talented.” - Kirkus Review

Like Clockwork

“A page-turning thriller…that will keep the reader guessing who is double-crossing whom until the last page.”

- Kevin J. Wetmore, PhD, Professor of Theatre Arts & author The Conjuring (Devils Advocates)

“MF Thomas does it again with another unique thriller. Suspenseful and very well paced!”

- Roseanne Sinclair, Host of the Killafornia Dreaming Podcast

As he staggers away from the chaotic aftermath of an explosion in downtown Shanghai, American Jake Bannon has bigger problems than the ringing in his ears. He has reawakened into a world of amnesia where he is prey to relentless pursuers from China…and America.

Bannon is a man of method, a meticulous pharmaceutical scientist who leaves nothing to chance. As his business trip draws to a close, everything has gone like clockwork.

On a rare impulse, Bannon decides to take a stroll through an old haunt, a shopping district in Shanghai. It's a fateful decision that changes everything as an explosion rips through the early morning air. Chinese authorities, already on high alert from recent incident with Japan, are quick to the scene of the blast. Through the cloudy dust and eerie silence, they have already identified their man.

As Bannon struggles to reconcile the shattered fragments of his memory, he realizes that he is being hunted. And now Bannon has nothing but his instinct to guide him and a persistent voice ringing through his mind:

It's time to go.

At the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous investigation, Bannon is stalked through the backstreets of Shanghai, an environment where survival and the machinations of fate throw him into the arms of Grace. Seeing Grace jolts Bannon's memories and his real identity slowly returns. Bannon knows he can't trust anyone – but with the authorities banging at the door, he has no choice.

Like Clockwork is a contemporary espionage novel in which MF Thomas, author of the acclaimed thrillers Arcade, Seeing by Moonlight, and A Sickness in Time, has created a suspenseful portrait of a Shanghai in tumultuous upheaval.

  • Seeing by Moonlight

    “A complex thriller that offers new revelations up until the very end. The book’s science-fiction element drives the major plot twists, but the most engaging scenes are those in which readers learn the real relationships and histories between the characters.” - Kirkus Reviews

  • A Sickness in Time

    "This is science fiction, but it is also so much more. The protagonists are wonderful characters, flaws and all. A great story, full of adventure, action and event, but also brimming with philosophy and scientific theory that’s readily accessible." - Stuart Aken Reviews

  • Arcade

    “A confident sci-fi thriller that deftly addresses themes of resilience, faith, and the value of video games.” - Kirkus Reviews

  • Like Clockwork

    “MF Thomas does it again with another unique thriller. Suspenseful and very well paced!” - Roseanne Sinclair, Host of the Killafornia Dreaming Podcast

Arcade

“A confident sci-fi thriller that deftly addresses themes of resilience, faith, and the value of video games.”

— Kirkus Reviews

In the near-future, our technology centered world is reduced to a pre-industrial state.  Explosions around the globe generate electromagnetic pulses that destroy every piece of technology using electronic circuits. Silicon Valley is not immune to the chaos that erupts. In the ruins of the world’s technology hub, society’s remnants focus on survival.

In the final days before the Change, retired FBI agent Walter Jackson pursues his estranged wife and daughter from Memphis to the Bay Area. His return home now impossible, Walter survives by working for the local police while still seeking his family. He discovers a high-tech company that still operates with food, power and a mission that reaches far beyond our solar system.  Its leader, Sloan Holt, is also driven by the need to recover a loved one.

Walter and Sloan collaborate, but other dangers put them at risk - from an industrialist who sees opportunity in the chaos to unknown forces from an alien world.  The game of survival is being played out in an apocalyptic arcade.

Seeing by Moonlight

“A complex thriller that offers new revelations up until the very end. The book’s science-fiction element drives the major plot twists, but the most engaging scenes are those in which readers learn the real relationships and histories between the characters.”

— Kirkus Reviews

“…an intriguingly dark thriller, with enough twists and turns to keep the reader turning pages up until the rather surprising conclusion.”

— Indie Reader

“…a marvelous book indeed, and it’s highly recommended.”

— Readers’ Favorite

1941

On the eve of America’s entry into World War II, Nazi Germany is developing a new weapon of unprecedented power, one that will give them ultimate victory over all the nations of the world. But the warn turns against them before it is completed, and a conspiracy forms to preserve the weapon and carry on the research.

1999

At the dawn of a new century, Alex Pyke, a self-styled bachelor entrepreneur, wants only the American Dream of a bigger house and a fatter bank account. But a business opportunity lures him back to Germany, the country he left as an orphan of five during the height of the Cold War. Upon his arrival, he is swept up in a deadly adventure involving an aging industrialist and his brilliant, beautiful niece. Even as Alex unravels the mysteries of his own family’s history, he makes a discovery that will change the direction of his life, and maybe the whole world beyond.

A Sickness in Time

“...pure exhilaration. The authors’ prose is, like the book overall, intelligent and comprehensive, especially with chic terminology like ‘gravity wake,’ a field created by accelerated particles, the essence of traversing space-time. Complex scientific notions in a story format prove equally entertaining and perceptive.”

— Kirkus Reviews

In 2038, the human race is in a death spiral, and most people do not even know it yet. Technology that was supposed to make us better and stronger instead is birthing a strange and terrible plague we may not be able to stop. When the young daughter of Josh Scribner, a wealthy tech entrepreneur, starts to succumb to the illness, he dedicates his fortune in a desperate effort to save her life. Working with a friend & celebrated physicist, Josh develops the ability to send objects back through time. Their goal to recruit an agent in the past who might change our fatal path.

In our present day, a broken and traumatized Air Force veteran finds a strange message in the woods, drawing her into an adventure spanning decades. All humanity is at stake, as she and her small group of friends become the unlikely heroes taking up the secret fight against our future doom.