Janet Tavakoli – Sci-Fi & Financial Thriller Author

About Author Janet Tavakoli

This is author Janet Tavakoli’s science fiction, mystery and financial thriller web site. Author Janet Tavakoli is also president of Tavakoli Structured Finance. Read about Janet Tavakoli’s Wall Street career and financial expertise that informs her thriller writing. For business matters and information on her nonfiction finance books, please visit Tavakoli Structured Finance.

Janet Tavakoli captivates readers using the pseudonym Michael K. Clancy (also known as Michael Clancy), author of suspense-filled novels like Zombie Apocalypse:The Origin.

Janet’s gripping science fiction series chronicles humanity’s struggle against a devastating virus that raises the dead. Drawing on extensive research in virology, military tactics, and disaster response, Janet Tavakoli creates post-apocalyptic narratives that balance heart-stopping thrills with thoughtful explorations of how civilization might respond to a world-ending pandemic. Read More about author Janet Tavakoli>

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Sci-Fi by Janet Tavakoli using the author pseudonym Michael K. Clancy

Welcome to the world of author Janet Tavakoli writing as Michael K. Clancy, where the zombie apocalypse feels terrifyingly possible. Author Michael K. Clancy blends military strategy, virology, and pulse-pounding action in Tavakoli’s Zombie Apocalypse series. Soldiers, scientists, teenagers, and ordinary citizens are thrust into extraordinary circumstances when a catastrophic scientific accident unleashes a virus that raises the dead. As civilization collapses overnight, readers are taken on a journey through a landscape crawling with flesh-eating zombies and ruthless human predators, where the greatest threat may not be the infected, but what we’re willing to do to survive.

Zombie Apocalypse Series

Books by Michael K. Clancy

Tavakoli’s meticulous research and attention to detail make the outbreak chilling plausible, grounding the horror in scientific possibility. Prepare for sleepless nights and racing hearts as you follow the interconnected stories of soldiers, scientists, teenagers, and ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances. With cinematic action and deeply human characters, Tavakoli reimagines the zombie genre for a new generation.

Zombie Apocalypse: Three Complete Novels (The Origin / WILDFIRE / Ghost Territory)

By Michael K. Clancy – Author Janet Tavkoli’s pen name

Zombie Apocalypse: Three Complete Novels (The Origin / WILDFIRE / Ghost Territory) is a collection of the first three novels in author Michael K. Clancy’s (Janet Tavakoli) post-apocalyptic Zombie Apocalypse Series.

The Origin

When a catastrophic scientific accident unleashes a virus that raises the dead, civilization collapses overnight. As cities fall and the government crumbles, a handful of survivors must navigate a landscape crawling with flesh-eating zombies and ruthless human predators.

Dr. Benjamin Lieber and Colonel Jack Crown, M.D., race to evacuate key personnel to a fortified compound. At the same time, Coach Mark Landi leads a group of teenagers in a desperate bid for survival. When Landi is bitten but shows immunity, he becomes humanity’s best hope for a cure—if he can reach the safety of the Virginia compound alive.

Zombie Apocalypse: The Origin by Michael Clancy comprises the entire Z-Factor series, Books 1-4: How I Started the Zombie Apocalypse, Zombie Protocols, Zombie Contagion, and Zombies and Men. Read an excerpt from Zombie Apocalypse: The Origin

WILDFIRE

Three months after the outbreak of the devastating Z-Factor virus, the world teeters on the brink of collapse. Cities have fallen, governments have crumbled, and the walking dead roam the earth—but a small band of survivors refuses to give up hope.

At the top-secret Outbreak Compound in Virginia, Colonel Jack Crown and his soldiers work tirelessly to protect the last remnants of humanity with a new protocol, Operation WILDFIRE. Among them are civilians Mark Landi and his teenage daughter Claire, whose unique immunity may be key to early treatment and potentially a vaccine. As zombies pound at the compound’s gates, brilliant scientists like Dr. Benjamin Lieber experiment to unlock the secrets of the Z-Factor before it’s too late.

But other threats abound. Ruthless marauders roam the countryside, willing to kill and torture for scarce resources. Zbigniew Volkov, a dangerous Russian operative with a mysterious agenda, masterminds a search for the Outbreak Compound. The compound comes under attack from both the living and the dead, testing alliances and demanding heroic sacrifices.

In Zombie Apocalypse 2: WILDFIRE, Janet Tavakoli immerses readers in her richly imagined post-apocalyptic world, balancing thrills with thoughtful explorations of how humanity might respond to a civilization-ending pandemic.

Tavakoli’s Z-Factor zombies are terrifying and ingeniously imagined, and the Z-Factor virus that created them holds dark secrets. Paranoid world powers point fingers and edge closer to launching nuclear missiles. Read an excerpt from Zombie Apocalypse 2: WILDFIRE.

Shocking twists, unexpected deaths, and a surprise ending will leave you clamoring for the next book in the series.

Ghost Territory

The United States is in chaos as hordes of the undead ravage the country. General Gary Markum, virologist Dr. Benjamin Lieber, and Colonel Jack “Ghost” Crown, M.D., lead a secret military compound working on a cure. Simultaneously, Jack and his men battle zombies and vicious marauders to expand the Crown Territory safe zone.

When Spetsnaz troops led by the ruthless Anton Abelev plan to invade and steal their research, Jack wages a deadly battle of wits with the Russian whose job is deception. Abelev uses a role-playing game to entrap Jack’s men, while Jack and Dr. Lieber use their research to counterattack with a high-risk gambit.

With pulse-pounding action and shocking twists, Zombie Apocalypse 3: Ghost Territory weaves a gripping tale of brilliant military tacticians who are worthy adversaries as terrifying as their ultimate enemies: hordes of zombies. Read an excerpt from Zombie Apocalypse 3: Ghost Territory.

 

Archangels: Rise of the Jesuits by Janet Tavakoli

Financial Thriller and Murder Mystery

Business Week called internationally renowned finance expert Janet Tavakoli the “Cassandra of Credit Derivatives” for predicting the financial crisis. She shocks again with Archangels: Rise of the Jesuits, her prescient debut financial fiction thriller. After she published her novel, Pope Benedict XVI resigned and, for the first time in the history of the Catholic Church, the College of Cardinals elected a Jesuit as Pope.

“Conspiracies within conspiracies, a fast-paced thriller” — Publisher’s Weekly

A murder mystery that will keep you guessing until the end!

When a young Jesuit and church financier is brutally murdered, investigator Michael Visconte is pulled into a deadly labyrinth of Vatican intrigue where power, money, and corruption converge. Janet Tavakoli, author of Archangels: Rise of the Jesuits, delivers a sophisticated thriller where nothing is sacred and no one plays fair.

As Visconte uncovers the criminal activities of the Archangeli—a secret society operating within the Vatican’s walls—he finds himself confronting ghosts from his own complicated past.

With his investigation threatening both the Vatican’s power structure and his family’s safety, Visconte must navigate a treacherous path where distinguishing allies from enemies could be his last mistake. Read an excerpt from Archangels: Rise of the Jesuits.

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