Thunder and Lightning Book Series

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The Elimination Games Enigma (Book #6) – Purchase Here!

(c) 2022
Middle-Reader/Young Adult Novel
Genre: Mystery/Adventure, Christian
Sixth of The Thunder & Lightning Series (12 total projected)
Available on Amazon
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Gabe and Alex Zanadu leap into action when drug-runners wreck their family’s vacation at the 1992 International Elimination Games in France. At every turn, a sinister Russian and beautiful French woman create peril and catastrophe for the brothers and their canine sidekicks, Thunder and Lightning. Who can be trusted? Do the villains work for themselves or others? And how can Willie, an Australian detective on assignment at the International Elimination Games Security Headquarters, help the boys weave their way through disasters and life-threatening situations to conquer their criminal foes? Drop everything to experience the adventure and thrills of this fantastic journey.

The Crashin’ Coaster Mystery (Book #5) – Purchase Here!

(c) 2019
Middle-reader/Young Adult Novel
Genre: Mystery/Adventure, Christian
Fifth of the Thunder and Lightning series (12 books to be published)
Available at Amazon
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Gabe and Alex Zanadu aren’t having a fun summer experience riding the Crashin’ Coaster at a San Antonio, Texas theme park. A mysterious man wearing a black hoodie releases the safety bars of the stalled coaster cars. Passengers scream in terror and one boy falls three stories to the ground. The saboteur races to a maintenance exit. Repeated disasters drag Gabe, Alex, their dogs, Thunder and Lightning, and friends into a cross-state chase for the criminals. The villain frames Alex. The FBI gets involved. Can the boys solve the case to clear their names and capture the man in the hood?

The Isle of Intrigue (Book #4) – Purchase Here! Reviews

(c) 2018
Middle-reader/Young Adult Novel
Genre: Mystery/Adventure, Christian
Fourth of the Thunder and Lightning series (12 books to be published)
Available in paperback and kindle on Amazon
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On a foggy Okinawan night, a stranger disrupts the Zanadu family’s first island-unique dinner at a seafood restaurant. His violent search for a flying microbot leaves the family devastated, with Gabe and Alex Zanadu’s mother unconscious on the floor. Gabe and Alex, their two dogs, Thunder and Lightning, and their new friends, Mike and his older sister, Crystal, find themselves hunted by the Okinawan and mainland-Japan mafia. When the Japanese mafia grabs Alex and Crystal, the race is on for Gabe and Mike, along with the dogs, to find and free their siblings before they meet an untimely end.

The Phantom of the Fortress (Book #3) – Purchase Here! Reviews

(c) 2016
Middle-reader/Young Adult Novel
Genre: Mystery/Adventure, Christian
Third of the Thunder and Lightning series (12 books to be published)
Available at Amazon.com (paperback and kindle)
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A psychologically disturbed Austrian who believes he is the reincarnation of Mozart, will hold all of Salzburg, Austria under his spell unless Gabe, Alex, and Thunder and Lightning can unravel the clues, solve the mystery, and capture the master of deception. Thunder and Lightning, along with a team of the boy’s friends, work to save the town, but a surprise twist puts the fate of Salzburg on the shoulders of Gabe. Will he crumple under the weight? Will he overcome the madman’s menace?

The Salt Mines Mystery (Book #2) – Purchase Here! Reviews

(c) 2015
Middle-reader/Young Adult Novel
Genre: Mystery/Adventure, Christian
Second of the Thunder and Lightning series (12 books to be published)
Available on Amazon.com (eBook and Paperback)
Signed copies for sale here

Threatened in the streets of Goeppingen, Germany, Gabe (13) and Alex (15) Zanadu make a disastrous decision that plummets them, their dogs Thunder and Lightning, and international friends into the clutches of an evil human trafficking ring. Their vacation collapses in one calamity after another.

The Secrets of the Castle (Book #1) – Purchase Here! Reviews

(c) 2012
Middle-reader/Young Adult Novel
Genre: Mystery/Adventure, Christian
First of the Thunder and Lightning series (12 books to be published)
Available at Amazon.com (eBook and Paperback)
Signed copies for sale here

Intrigue and danger surround two young boys and their dogs as they seek to unravel a castle mystery. A near disastrous car wreck in Germany launches twelve-year-old Gabriel Zanadu, Alexander, his fourteen year-old brother, and their two dogs, Thunder and Lightning, into a sinister adventure near the famous German castle, Neuschwanstein. Unexplained eavesdropping, death threats, and heart-pumping danger drag Gabe, Alex, and the dogs into the clutches of a little-known foreign terrorist network. After they are kidnapped by the terrorists, and even though they are scraped, bruised, and battered, Gabe and Alex use what they’ve learned from their military dad and home-schooling mom to clash with the criminals.

Future Thunder and Lightning Series Books

Future Books in the series will cover the boys and their four-legged friends in France, Korea, the Middle East, Australia, and finally Hawaii. As the boys and dogs grow and mature, amazing revelations occur about the driving force behind almost endless mysteries and clues.