International bestselling author Brad Parks is the only writer to have won the Shamus, Nero, and Lefty Awards, three of American crime fiction’s most prestigious prizes. His novels have been published in fifteen languages and have won critical acclaim across the globe, including stars from every major prepublication review outlet. A graduate of Dartmouth College, Parks is a former journalist with the Washington Post and the Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey). He is now a full-time novelist living in Virginia with his wife and two school-age children. His new novel, “Unthinkable,” is a thriller about an ordinary man who may be able to save the world as we know it but to do so, he must make an impossible choice. (amazon, 2021)

“Unthinkable” – Nate Lovejoy is a self-proclaimed nobody, a stay-at-home dad who does not believe he is important to anyone but his wife and their two daughters. So, it is a shock when members of a powerful secret society kidnap and spirit Nate away to a mansion at the behest of their leader, Vanslow DeGange, who claims to know the future. He has foreseen that a billion people could die―unless Nate acts. It seems improbable, especially given what DeGange says will set this mass casualty incident in motion: Nate’s wife Jenny will sue the biggest power company in Virginia. Nate quickly senses that the power company is perpetrating a fraud. But at every turn, it becomes apparent there is more to DeGange’s gift than Nate wants to acknowledge. A billion people really could die, and Nate might be the only one who can save them. All he must do is the unthinkable.