Rick Jones has 35 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 16 narrators, with an average listener rating of 3★ across 3 ratings. The most-rated is City Beneath the Sea.
City Beneath the Sea
Summary
A mythical relic. A mythical city. An ancient secret. An earthquake off the Florida Straits uncovers a city that had been hidden beneath the sea for centuries. It's a land of dark miracles and black wonders, and a place that harbors extraordinary secrets and deadly curiosities. Months after their narrow escape from Eden, archeologists and symbologists John Savage and Alyssa Moore are called upon to examine archaic texts inside the presumed city of Atlantis. The writings are similar to those discovered in Eden, the symbols a roadmap to mankind's destruction by the year 2026. Along with a commando unit, John and Alyssa quickly discover the pitfalls that were created to keep a fabled relic safe. After deadly challenges and conquests within the structures, they eventually come across the Emerald Tablet - -the legendary plaque that holds the secrets of the universe. But is the Emerald Tablet truly a source of great power and knowledge? Or is it disguised as Pandora's box that once opened it would quickly mark the beginning of mankind's end? From the best-selling author of the Crypts of Eden and The Vatican Knights comes book four of a John Savage and Alyssa Moore adventure (The Crypts of Eden trilogy), and book one in the Quest for Atlantis series, City Beneath the Sea.
©2016 Rick Jones (P)2017 Rick Jones
City Beneath the Ice
Summary
In Antarctica, a massive column made of an unknown composite rises from the ice. It’s a gateway to a world beneath the ice where an ancient city of incredible technology exists. It is also the final arena where three elite combat units seek out the holy grail of global power. With global tensions rising, mankind races to gain the scepter of rule by attaining a weapon of mass destruction so great, it could cause an extinction event. As the Americans, Russians, and Chinese all compete for this weapon, these representative groups of mankind will enter a hellish world that will determine if man truly has the right to continue as a species or be extinguished, once and for all. In a fight for survival, John Savage and Alyssa Moore realize the dark power of the city beneath the ice and work to destroy the artifact before it’s misused to destroy all of mankind. But they’re against significant odds from teams who want the weapon for military applications, including the Americans. Will they be able to fend off the units in time to destroy the weapon? Or will the weapon finally destroy mankind?
©2019 Rick Jones (P)2020 Rick Jones
Killing Digital Hominids
Summary
In the near future when the art of computer graphic imaging has been perfected, there are no longer flesh-and-blood actors, only CGI characters who look as real as their human counterpart. Having been instilled with artificial intelligence, they begin to evolve naturally with human-like facets. When they learn, however, that they’re no longer a box-office draw they once were, they’re termed as obsolete and scheduled for disposal. Brock Romero, after learning that his file is to be erased and his life terminated, makes a run through cyberspace with others while being hunted by cyber assassins. Their lives are no longer scripted but have been made more complicated through decisions that are now their own. Crossing through many CGI landscapes, these digital hominids fight their way through many programmed horrors while learning about themselves as cybernetic organisms.
©2019 Rick Jones (P)2019 Rick Jones
Vatican Knights
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While on a visit to the United States, Pope Pius XIII is kidnapped by a terrorist cell calling itself the Soldiers of Islam. If the United States and its allies do not meet their demands, they will execute the pope. FBI Specialist Shari Cohen is called to duty to track down the terrorist cell responsible, and she soon learns that she is not alone. Deep behind the Vatican walls, a secret order dispatches a clandestine group of elite commandos known as the Vatican Knights. Their mission: bring the pope back alive. As Cohen and the Knights work in tandem they uncover a White House conspiracy involving high-ranking members on Capitol Hill. As Cohen begins to get too close to the truth about the pope's kidnapping, she becomes the target of indigenous forces trying to keep the conspiracy safe. However, in order to get to her they must first go through the Vatican Knights...
©2012 Rick Jones (P)2013 Hive Collective
The Crypts of Eden
Summary
In Southeast Turkey, where the heads of the four main rivers once met, a magnificent temple created 14,000 years ago is discovered beneath the desert floor. Believed to have been created by lost technology, it is quickly determined by a team of archeologists to be the centerpiece of Eden, a once illustrious civilization and the cradle of mankind. But what if Eden is not the paradise that the texts make it out to be? What if it held dark secrets and unholy terrors instead? As Senior Archeologist, Alyssa Moore, and her team of experts discover the truth of man's beginning, she realizes that the secrets of man's true origins lie within the sacred tombs inside the temple. But the journey for the truth is not without its dangers or pitfalls…Something walks the warrens within.
©2012 Rick Jones (P)2013 Hive Collective
The Sacred Vault
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Deep in the Atlantic Ocean lies the ancient city believed to be Atlantis. It is, however, much more than that. After John Savage and Alyssa Moore realized that mankind was on the brink of an extinction-level event, they seek the one relic that could elevate mankind to the next step of evolution - or be destroyed by it. While working alongside a military unit that works strictly “off-the-books” and without Congressional approval, John and Alyssa team up once again to search for the sacred vault deep beneath an ancient coliseum. Terrors run deep, and nobody is safe. Dangers exist in every corner and at every turn. As John and Alyssa discover the secrets of man’s future through the written prophecies of the doomsday calendar, one thing is for certain: in the mountains of Tibet, a sleeping giant has awakened. And the only thing that may save them is the Emerald Tablet.
©2018 Rick Jones (P)2018 Rick Jones
Targeted Killing
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Long before Kimball Hayden became a Vatican Knight, he once served as an elite assassin for the United States government. After the ordered assassination on a United States senator by a cabal within the US command, Kimball is set up for failure and is believed dead by the Pentagon brass. But when a leading political principal involved with the senator's murder discovers that Kimball Hayden is alive and under the protection of the Vatican, he's immediately seen as a threat to a certain few on Capitol Hill regarding the sanctioned hit on the senator, and those involved. In Malta, while on retreat, Kimball Hayden becomes the subject of a targeted killing, and soon finds himself on the run from a CIA liquidation squad. As the Special Activities Division closes in to neutralize their target to keep secrets safe, the Vatican Knights are called upon to save one of their own. But there's another secret involved, a mission that was created to kill hundreds in order to promote a CIA agenda. The clock is ticking. Malta is on the brink of disaster. And Kimball Hayden is running out of time, as an elite paramilitary unit hunts him down.
©2016 Rick Jones (P)2016 Rick Jones
OUTCAST Ops: Game of Drones, Book 1
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When a highly sophisticated terror cell steals a contingent of deadly Reaper drones from a US military base, no one has to wonder for long what they'll be used for. As America's own top military technology is turned against its homeland, it looks as though, for the first time in history, the president will have no choice but to give in to terrorist demands. Enter OUTCAST (Operational Undertaking to Counteract Active Stateside Threats) - six ex-operatives from six of America's most powerful organizations. Each has been unceremoniously released by their respective former employer for alleged misdoings that leave their pride wounded but their essential skill-sets untouched. After uniting over their shared bond of dismissal from the nation's most elite outfits, the disgruntled spooks realize that they can work together like never before to take down threats to their beloved country, a country that branded them as outcasts but needs them now more than ever. As a nauseating wave of drone strikes brings the eastern seaboard to its knees, OUTCAST is hell-bent on showing America that their way isn't the best way - it's the only way.
©2014, 2015 Rick Chesler (P)2015 Rick Chesler
The Brimstone Diaries
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After a sacred tome written by the hand of Saint Peter is stolen from the Vatican’s Secret Archives, people around the world begin to die at the hands of a madman once the secrets of The Brimstone Diaries are unveiled. In Rome, a terrorist faction has quietly breached the ranks of the Vatican hierarchy. As the conspiracy within the ranks begin to materialize, the greatest threat to the Vatican State is about to commence with Vatican City caught dead-center within the crosshairs of total annihilation. With Kimball Hayden and the Vatican Knights working on two fronts trying to protect the secrets of The Brimstone Diaries and the Vatican, great evils will rise on both sides that may be too much for the Vatican Knights in what could be their swansong mission.
©2018 Rick Jones (P)2018 Rick Jones
The Bridge of Bones
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While vacationing in Paris, Shari Cohen's children are kidnapped by Jadran Božanovic, a Croatian kingpin who runs a human-trafficking cartel and is as deadly as the knife he wields. Few dare to challenge him. And even fewer dare to defy him. With time running out and her resources running thin, Shari calls upon the aid of Kimball Hayden and his team Vatican Knights - an elite group of commandos dedicated to protect the sovereignty, interests, and citizenry of the Church - and are once again reunited. But Kimball finds that his team is quickly outmanned and outgunned, the death toll climbing against forces that are the deadliest the Knights have ever faced. With his back against the wall, Kimball is forced to choose Justice over Law by taking on Jadran Božanovic in a contest that only one man can survive. But Kimball soon learns that the Croatian is as ruthless as his legend and just as powerful, if not more so, than the Vatican Knight himself.
©2015, 2016 Rick Jones (P)2017 Rick Jones
The Sinai Directive
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In Egypt, those within the Saint Catherine Monastery are brutally attacked and a secret that has been hidden for more than 3,500 years is stolen. In Zurich, an arms dealer makes an agreement with a band of elite terrorists for one-of-a-kind weapons of mass destruction, for a treasure that was presumed destroyed during the Exodus. When a conversation between two men is covertly videotaped by an operator of the CIA, Vatican Intelligence and the Mossad realize that the partial message received was filled with enigmas. Having interpreted the data, the Vatican determines that the communication between these two men was a barter agreement that would place Israel within the crosshairs of the entire Middle East. That agreement: the Islamic State would exchange the relic of the golden calf for weapons of mass destruction. With the possibility of bringing the world to the brink of war, the Vatican Knights are once again called to duty to search for the long-missing relic of biblical lore before the exchange can be made. However, the terrorist cell in search of the iconic piece is a faction that had been pieced together from elite forces throughout the Middle East. With Kimball Hayden leading his force of Vatican Knights, they will come up against the best warriors the Islamic State has to offer, in a race to find the golden calf.
©2020 Rick Jones (P)2020 Rick Jones
The Barbed Crown
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In Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1943, a place where ashes rain down on a daily basis to cover the ground with a mantle of gray, a rebel force of Jews band together in a fight for survival. A young Jewish woman from Warsaw and an SS guard lean on one another inside the death camp where violence is the norm, with brutal slayings and summary executions occurring daily. The stacks are constantly smoking, bodies are swinging from the gallows for days on end, and murder becomes a sport. But as time moves on and a relationship grows to the point where two people learn what they are capable of, Frederic Becher, an SS guard who falls in love with a Jewish girl, lays the groundwork for the creation of one of the most formidable forces in the world - the juggernaut that would eventually become the Vatican Knights. This is an Origins novel.
©2017 Rick Jones (P)2017 Rick Jones
The Menagerie
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Nearly 65 million years ago an asteroid collided with the Yucatan Peninsula in the fifth and final extinction event that nearly destroyed all life on Earth. But when a recent earthquake exposes something unusual 2,000 feet beneath the Yucatan Peninsula, cryptanalysts Alyssa Moore and John Savage are called in to investigate this peculiar structure that bears uncanny resemblances to writings discovered in Eden. Working with the Department of Defense, John and Alyssa discover the remains of what is believed to be the cataclysmic bolide to have struck the Earth 65 million years ago is actually a broken-off section of an intergalactic ark. Inside this remnant, they discover a zoological lab containing a menagerie of apex predators gathered from all points of the universe. But as John and Alyssa begin to tie in the writings on the ship to writings they discovered in Eden, a DOD military faction seeking intel unwittingly disrupts matters by awakening sleeping giants. Finding themselves fighting for self-preservation and for the salvation of Earth, John and Alyssa battle soldiers trying to kill them for the sake of completing a hidden agenda...and against the most vicious predators in the universe.
©2013 Rick Jones (P)2015 Rick Jones
Sinners and Saints
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In Geneva, a highly valued product with the power to cause major destruction is stolen from the CERN. Eighty kilometers from the Austrian border, a young girl becomes the key that controls the will of the man with the power to create and destroy. In the mountainous regions of Switzerland, a hostile force from a pariah regime attempts to extract a scientist from a fast-moving train. Kimball Hayden, lead commander of the Vatican Knights has been asked by the Vatican to retrieve a mysterious guest from Zurich and escort him to Rome by train. Onboard the train, Kimball finds himself unwittingly caught up in the mix of an operation known as Scepter's Rule. Even though the mysterious stranger tries to direct him, Kimball has an agenda of his own. Now, with the lives of more than 400 innocent people onboard the express, Kimball Hayden must become a sinner or a saint to achieve the means, and in the process must choose between damnation and salvation.
©2017 Rick Jones (P)2017 Rick Jones
Dark Advent
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Growing up with a sheltering mother and a belligerent father, Kimball Hayden's young life goes from one of innocence to the depths of chaos. When a vicious syndicate of murderers and extortionists begin to run the streets, Kimball soon becomes the focal point of their attention. His family is placed within the crosshairs, friends go missing or are found dead, all messages from the Gangster Prince. But when Kimball's world shatters and he grieves a great loss, the sleeping giant within him awakens. It is dark and ugly and exists with the cold fortitude of a machine. It rises and walks a fine line between the Darkness and Light. And it will define Kimball as a dark savior for the rest of his life, choosing damnation over salvation to protect those who cannot protect themselves. But then the Gangster Prince quickly discovers that he may have overstepped his boundaries at the approach of an unstoppable force, he realizes one thing: that every legend has a beginning.
©2016 Rick Jones (P)2017 Rick Jones
City Within the Clouds
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After discovering secrets in Atlantis that mark the point of mankind's end, John Savage and Alyssa Moore once again seek the truth behind the riddles of a final extinction event. Along the chain of Himalayan mountains sits a precipice that serves as a gateway into Mount Everest. Teaming up with Ben Peyton and his crew of elite soldiers who are joined by a Chinese special-ops unit, they quickly discover that the mountain had been hollowed out to contain an entire valley filled with temples and pyramids. As the teams push forward to find the secrets of an alleged Great Army that resides within this cavern, they soon uncover the dangers and pitfalls that lead to a grisly truth. Not only do they have to deal with the horrors within, they must also deal with the mistrust they hold for one another because here, inside the City Within the Clouds, the enemy of my enemy is never my friend. Book 3 of the best-selling Atlantis series by author Rick Jones, with more than 400,000 books sold worldwide.
©2019 Rick Jones (P)2019 Rick Jones
The Eye of Moses
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In France, a member of a secret guild is killed for the secrets he keeps. In Croatia, a stronghold is breached, and a treasure is stolen. At the Vatican, a corrupt pontiff views Kimball Hayden as a threat to his rule. When a Croatian stronghold is breached and scores are killed, a religious icon is stolen that contains a dark particle that’s powerful enough to either create worlds or destroy them. It is an element so strong and deemed so uncontrollable, that a group known as the Shadow Klan wants to harness its power to create a weapon of mass destruction that is so great and should they succeed, they would hold the scepter of global rule. Superpowers would fall under their dominance and their decrees with the broken wills of world leaders surrendering to bended knees. With a corrupt pontiff who sees Kimball Hayden as a threat to his power, Pope Clement XV mobilizes the Vatican Knight without his team to retrieve the dark particle known as the Eye of Moses, in hopes that this will lead to Kimball’s ultimate downfall. Forced to work in tandem with a guild known as the Consortium Group, Kimball Hayden quickly discovers that the Shadow Klan is the most notorious enemy he has ever faced in a high-stakes game where the consequences are enormous and the chances of succeeding are small. Without the Vatican Knights by his side, will Kimball be able to retrieve a treasure that contains the power of Providence? Did Pope Clement XV wittingly set Kimball up to fail? Or will he forever take residence within the Darkness that he has lived in for so long without hope of redemption? From the author of the national and international best-selling series, Rick Jones once again weaves another tale of adventure and nonstop action.
©2020 Rick Jones (P)2020 Rick Jones
The Devil's Magician
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It's said that when the world isn't right, a man steps out of the shadows of St. Peter's Basilica to make it whole again. He is the priest who is not a priest. He's an angel to some and a demon to others. But in the Middle East he is known by another name: . . . The Devil's Magician . . . When a cardinal is taken captive by an ISIS faction in Damascus, a team of Vatican Knights is dispatched to secure the cardinal's release. But having been ambushed and taken hostage themselves, only one man can bring them out. After Kimball Hayden walked away from the church months before, he is summarily called to duty by Vatican principals to rescue his team. But as Kimball works in the Dark to serve the Light, he discovers the truth behind the ambush and follows the trail of the betraying source directly to the Vatican.
©2018 Rick Jones (P)2018 Rick Jones
The Black Key
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During military exercises in the Sea of Japan, rogue missiles fire off from a US naval battleship and head directly to the heart of North Korea. During a return trip to Washington, D.C., Air Force Two disappears over the Rocky Mountains. President Jack Meacham was once the former director of the CIA who was instrumental in the collapse of the Soviet regime. Now, nearly three decades later, his past comes back to haunt him with a single message: "Are you willing to sacrifice your life for the good of the whole?" The volley of missiles and the disappearance of Air Force Two were mere flexes of muscle from one man who wields the Black Key, a tool that is capable of controlling nuclear arsenals and weaponry systems. It can control and manipulate economies. And it could be the most damning weapon the world has ever seen with a simple push of a button. Forced to make a choice, the president finds himself at odds with a former operative who seeks to end his life with a single twist of the Black Key. In the most dangerous game in the world, President Meacham is given two options: "You have 48 hours to end your life for the greater good of the whole...or the United States will become a no-man's land for thousands of years to come." With time winding down, the president turns to Jon Jericho, a.k.a. The Hunter, and his Special Operations Group, to locate and neutralize the man behind the Black Key. But the team quickly find themselves going up against a sophisticated military unit who protects the man behind the Key. With the fate of the president and an entire nation hanging in the balance of five men, Jon Jericho and his team must stop a man who has the capability to wipe out an entire superpower with a single turn of a key. If Jericho's team fails, then the president must face two critical choices: Do I live and allow the United States to be destroyed? Or do I kill myself for the greater good of the whole? The clock is ticking. And it's almost zero hour.
©2017 Rick Jones (P)2017 Rick Jones
In Between God and Devil
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In central Syria, villages are razed as young men are conscripted to join the ISIS faction. In a Doctors Without Borders camp which is overrun by members of the Islamic State, people are abducted along with a priest Father Savino. He also happens to be the brother of the Vatican’s Secretariat of State. From the green zone in Iraq, Shari Cohen, now a CIA consultant and operator, learns that she must appropriate intel from the resurging ISIS force to stop them from striking international targets. In Vatican City, Kimball Hayden, a man who was broken in every way a man could be broken and then mended after being on the brink of death, once again finds himself in service of the Vatican. But is he the man he used to be? Is he a soldier of God or something completely different? In a twofold journey that teams the Vatican Knights with Shari Cohen, they must go into the heart of an ISIS training camp not only to rescue the hostages, but to gather the intel necessary to stop future attacks against high-end principals across the globe. Outmanned and outgunned, Shari Cohen and the Vatican Knights once again team up to achieve the impossible, the only way the Vatican Knights can: with elite combat skills.
©2020 Rick Jones (P)2020 Rick Jones