Liberty [Paperback] Coonts, Stephen

A massive EMP attack blacks out America. No power. No phones. No transportation. In hours, civilization begins to collapse. Tommy Carmellini, ex-burglar turned CIA operative, is stuck in the chaos alongside his boss, Jake Grafton. As looting erupts and martial law fails, they uncover something worse than the blackout itself — the attack was just the opening move. Someone engineered this collapse, and they're not finished. Coonts writes techno-thrillers that feel uncomfortably plausible, and *Liberty* leans hard into infrastructure paranoia. It's Tom Clancy without the submarine manuals — taut, violent, and politically charged. The kind of book that makes you side-eye your phone's battery percentage. Perfect for readers who like their fiction one headline away from reality, or anyone who's ever wondered how fast society would unravel without electricity.