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Glenn Cooper is an American internationally bestselling author of thriller books.

Born in New York City, he attended Harvard University where he graduated with an honors degree in archaeology, before studying medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine; ultimately becoming a board-certified specialist in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases.

Upon practicing medicine, Glenn joined the pharmaceutical industry as a researcher, where he served as the Chairman and CEO of a biotechnology company in Massachusetts for nearly two decades.

Bearing a keen interest in screenplays, he undertook the graduate program in film production at Boston University, eventually leading him to serve as the chairman of Lascaux Media company, which has produced three independent feature-length films.

Glenn made his debut as an author in 2009 with Library of the Dead, the first installment of the Will Piper Series.

The book was not only an international bestseller, but was also translated into 30 languages.

Glenn’s novels have since sold more than 8 million copies across the globe.

More about Glenn Cooper

Genre: Thriller

Born: 1953

United States

Website: https://www.glenncooperbooks.com/

Non Series

  • The Tenth Chamber (2010)
  • The Devil Will Come (2011)
  • Near Death (2012)
  • The Resurrection Maker (2013)
  • The Cure (2020)
  • The Taken Girls (2021)

Cal Donovan

  1. Sign of the Cross (2018)
  2. Three Marys (2018)
  3. The Debt (2019)
  4. The Showstone (2019)
  5. The Fourth Prophecy (2022)
  6. The Lost Pope (2023)

Down Trilogy

  1. Pinhole (2014)
  2. Portal (2015)
  3. Floodgate (2015)

Will Piper

  1. Library of the Dead (2009)
  2. Book of Souls (2010)
  3. The Keepers of the Library (2012)

Detailed book overview

Non Series

The Tenth Chamber

After a fire tears through the library of an ancient monastery a medieval script is discovered hidden behind an antique bookcase. Badly damaged, it is sent to Paris for restoration and there literary historian Hugo Pineau begins to decipher the startling fourteenth-century text. Within its pages lies a fanciful tale of a painted cave and a rudimentary map. Intrigued, Hugo enlists the help of archaeologist Luc Simard and the two men embark on a journey that will change the course of their lives forever.

When Luc and Hugo discover a vast network of prehistoric caves, buried deep within the cliffs, they realize that they’ve stumbled across something extraordinary. And at the very core of the labyrinth lies the most astonishing chamber of all, the tenth chamber. 

Aware of the significance of their discovery, they set up camp with a team of experts, determined to bring their find to the world. But as they begin to unlock the ancient secret the cavern holds, they find themselves at the center of a dangerous game. One ‘accidental’ death leads to another and it soon becomes clear that someone or something will stop at nothing to protect the secret of the tenth chamber.

Author: Glenn Cooper
First Release: 2010
ISBN: 978-0692225134
Publisher: Lascaux Media
The Devil Will Come

The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike,

The Devil will come, and Faustus must be damned.

Elisabetta Celestino, a brilliant young archaeologist at work in Rome’s ancient catacombs, has discovered a unique pattern of astrological symbols on an underground wall. She feels sure that evidence of a previously unknown pre-Christian sect lies in an adjacent chamber where the untombed skeletons bear a strange anomaly, and is devastated when the Vatican refuses to support her excavation project.

Ten years later, a cave-in damages the vault, and a shocking discovery is made. Following a violent and traumatic event, Elisabetta has left has left archaeology behind for the serenity of prayer and teaching, but the young nun unexpectedly finds herself in a race to solve the secret of the catacomb and prevent an apocalyptic event that threatens not only the Vatican but the future of mankind.

Author: Glenn Cooper
First Release: 2011
ISBN: 978-0692260555
Publisher: Lascaux Media
Near Death

A brilliant neuroscientist, obsessed with death since his own childhood near death experience, resorts to drastic measures to prove the existence of the afterlife.

Milan, Italy today. It is the most serious crisis that the world has ever faced. Bewildered, young and old, believers and atheists are asking all the same, distressing questions: What will they do now that the greatest dream of humanity has turned into a nightmare? What will happen when the countdown clock winds to zero?

Boston, a few months before. It is the most complex investigation that Cyrus O'Malley has ever faced. The FBI special agent looks at photos of the victims for the umpteenth time and wonders why, after being strangled, the serial killer has drilled a tiny hole through their skull. For Cyrus, the case becomes an obsession. To solve it, he will be forced to give up everything he holds dear.

England, 1988. It is the most overwhelming feeling that Alex Weller has ever had. In ecstasy, at the pivot point between life and death, the boy sees a river of light flowing in front of him and on the other side there is his father, joyfully urging him to join him. But Alex cannot move, and suddenly he is back at the site of the terrible car accident that has just killed his parents.

Since that time, Alex has had only one goal: to understand and relive that experience. Even if he is forced to kill.

Author: Glenn Cooper
First Release: 2012
ISBN: 978-0692260548
Publisher: Lascaux Media
The Resurrection Maker

Arthur Malory, a seemingly ordinary Englishman, has a burning interest in the Grail, a passion inherited from his father. Thrust into a life-or-death quest to find the precious artifact, he will discover not only his own amazing heritage but the power that the Grail possesses, a power that informs the resurrection of Christ and explosively merges spiritual and scientific thought.

Author: Glenn Cooper
First Release: 2013
ISBN: 978-0692266717
Publisher: Lascaux Media
The Cure

If you catch it, you forget everything. Your only hope is the cure. . .

He wanted to cure Alzheimer's Disease. . .

Single parent and neurologist Dr. Jamie Abbott makes a key contribution to treating Alzheimer's Disease. But the principal investigator short-circuits the study safeguards, releasing a highly contagious virus that wipes the host's memories. His daughter is one of the first victims.

As the virus spreads and civil order breaks down, Jamie embarks on a perilous cross-country journey. He needs to reach Dr. Mandy Alexander. She has the other half of a potential cure.

Author: Glenn Cooper
First Release: 2020
Ebook: B089NW4842
Publisher: Head of Zeus
The Taken Girls

A family is abducted.

There are no signs of a struggle. Their Italian holiday villa is untouched. There are no ransom demands. The parents and two little girls, Victoria and Elizabeth, have simply vanished.

The daughters are returned.

Four years later, the girls appear back at the family's holiday home. But they are the exact same ages they were at the time of their abduction. Their parents are still nowhere to be seen.

Only one man can solve the mystery.

Marcus Handler, a retired CIA officer, is hired to investigate. He wants Victoria and Elizabeth's disappearance explained. But his hunt for answers leads Marcus to a disturbing truth and a reckoning with his own troubled past...

Author: Glenn Cooper
First Release: 2021
ISBN: 978-1800246348
Publisher: Head of Zeus

Cal Donovan

Sign of the Cross

Abruzzo, Italy: a young priest suffers the stigmata of the crucifixion.

The Vatican, Rome: the Pope calls on Harvard professor Cal Donovan to investigate the truth of the priest’s claim.

Berlin, Germany: a neo-Nazi organization believes the priest is the key to an earth-shattering secret. A secret that can be used as a deadly weapon.

When the priest is abducted, a perilous race against the clock begins. Only Cal can track down the ruthless organization and stop it, before an apocalyptic catastrophe is unleashed.

Author: Glenn Cooper
First Release: 2018
ISBN: 978-1786894878
Publisher: Black Thorn
Three Marys

Three impossible births. Three incredible miracles. One deadly secret.

Once again, Harvard Professor of religion and archaeology Cal Donovan has been summoned by Pope Celestine to investigate a seemingly impossible miracle. Three Catholic teenage girls, from different corners of the world, have fallen pregnant. All three girls are named Mary, and all three girls have been proven to be virgins. Are they really all bearing the son of God?

Before Cal has a chance to visit all three girls, one of the Marys disappears … and then another. As he struggles to uncover the truth, Cal realizes that much more than his own and others’ lives are at stake: could this apparent miracle really cause the collapse of the Catholic faith?

Author: Glenn Cooper
First Release: 2018
ISBN: 978-1847519412
Publisher: Severn House Publishers
The Debt

An ancient loan made by Pope Pius VIII wreaks havoc in the present… 

While browsing the Vatican libraries, Harvard professor Cal Donovan uncovers a secret that could bankrupt the Catholic church. Unearthing evidence of a 200-year-old loan which the Vatican owes to a Jewish bank, Cal deduces that, with centuries of interest behind it, the sum now amounts to a crippling 25 billion Euros. With the future of the Vatican at stake, Pope Celestine asks Cal to intercede with the Sassoon family to whom the sum is owed.

Thus Cal finds himself drawn into the tangled affairs of the wealthy yet dysfunctional Sassoons. With eye-watering sums of money involved and the Vatican facing bankruptcy, everyone has their own agenda. Who can be trusted? If Cal isn’t careful, he’ll find more than his own life in danger…

Author: Glenn Cooper
First Release: 2019
ISBN: 978-1847519856
Publisher: Severn House Publishers
The Showstone

Mysticism, angels, evil spirits: Harvard Professor Cal Donovan investigates a scrying stone linked to the death of his parents.

Algosh, Iraq, 1989. During an archaeological excavation Hiram Donovan uncovers a piece of meticulously knapped obsidian. Instinct tells him to hide it from others on the dig, so he sends it back to his wife in America with a note: John Dee, British Museum/Scrying stone? Days later Hiram is murdered with it made to look like an accident. But there was a witness.

Decades later, on his death bed, the witness confesses to what he saw. Shortly afterwards, Cal Donovan – Professor of Archaeology at Harvard and Hiram’s son – is told his mother has been killed. Upon finding the parcel still unopened alongside his father’s mysterious note referencing Queen Elizabeth’s astrologer and alchemist, Cal sets out to discover the truth.

What he finds are fanatics determined to obtain the mystical stone, but for what purpose...?

Author: Glenn Cooper
First Release: 2019
ISBN: 978-1780296241
Publisher: Severn House Publishers
The Fourth Prophecy

A beloved professor of theology and archaeology at Harvard, Cal Donovan has achieved renown – but he drops everything when he is called by his friend Pope Celestine to investigate the potential existence of a mysterious prophecy. And it soon becomes clear that another party is desperate and willing to kill for the same information.

In a race against time that will lead him from Lisbon to Rome and to London and Paris, Donovan will become the only person standing in the way of unspeakable destruction. Now his only hope for survival is to outwit, outrun, and outlast his enemies long enough to get to the truth behind the Fourth Prophecy.

Author: Glenn Cooper
First Release: 2022
ISBN: 978-1538721247
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
The Lost Pope

A Harvard theology professor uncovers religious and papal history—and plenty of conspiracy. 

Cal Donovan, a theology professor at Harvard, receives an urgent message from a former graduate student, Samia Tedros. Now a museum conservator in Cairo, Samia has discovered a miraculous fragment of papyrus with three unknown lines from the Gospel of Mary Magdalene so explosive that a wealthy man is willing to kill to ensure no one ever sees it.

At the Vatican, another drama is developing. The new Pope has defied centuries of tradition and appointed a nun, Sister Elisabetta Celestino, as his secretary of state. Powerful insiders are outraged that a woman now sits as the second most influential person at the Vatican, and they plot to destroy her.

When Samia shows up at Cal’s doorstep in the dead of night, he is drawn into a deadly competition to possess a papyrus with the power to rescue Sister Elisabetta and change the course of Christianity.  

Author: Glenn Cooper
First Release: 2023
ISBN: 978-1538721261
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Down Trilogy

Pinhole

John Camp heads up security at a world’s largest super-collider tunneled around London. Scarred by his wartime experiences, he’s been fighting his demons and putting his life back in order. High on his priorities is his new relationship with physicist Emily Loughty, the collider’s beautiful and accomplished Scottish research director.

When the collider starts up it hits its projected energy target but then inexplicably continues powering much higher. In the blink of an eye Emily disappears and a rough-looking man appears in her place. In fear and confusion the man barrels out of the lab and disappears. His identity may be the only clue to what has happened.

John volunteers to embark on a mission to try and rescue Emily and when the collider is powered up again he finds himself in a strange and terrifying world, geographically identical to Earth but very different. It’s a place some call Down, eternally populated by those who’ve committed the most unforgivable acts of evil during their lives. Here in a world with but a few glimmers of hope, kings and dukes, including infamous historical figures, battle perpetually for supremacy.

In a race against time, John must navigate the terrible landscape of Down and bring home the love of his life before they are trapped for the rest of their lives.

Author: Glenn Cooper
First Release: 2014
ISBN: 978-1515040842
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Portal

The connection between Earth and Down has widened. What had been a mere pinhole has now grown into a portal with a dozen innocents swept into the strange and terrifying world of Down.

Emily Loughty, the physicist in charge of the super-collider that opened the portal, must return to Down with her lover, John Camp, in a desperate bid to rescue the innocents and close the portal. They are joined by two volunteers, a street-savvy ex-policeman and a charismatic medieval weapons expert who hosts a popular British TV show. Together they have scant time to navigate the savage and sinister world of Down and find the scattered souls before hope is lost and all are trapped.

On Earth, Ben Wellington, a senior MI5 agent, is tasked with finding the rampaging residents of Down who have entered our world. When the most loathsome of all the men of Down, a band of rovers, begin to terrorize the English countryside, Ben must turn to the unlikeliest of allies to track them and eliminate the growing threat.

Author: Glenn Cooper
First Release: 2015
ISBN: 978-1515041283
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Floodgate

The crisis has gone from bad to worse. The chain of events that produced the connection between Earth and Down has galloped out of control. What had been a portal is now a floodgate. London faces an apocalyptic crisis with hordes of confused and murderous residents of Down attacking the populace. The truth can no longer be hidden. With the entire world watching and debating the philosophical and theological realities of the existence of Down, London is placed under martial law.

Emily Loughty and John Camp are convinced that one man holds the key to severing the expanding connections between the two worlds. And that man is a tragic resident of Down. To find him they will have to undertake the most dangerous and complex of all their journeys.

To buy time and protect London from marauding invaders, John assembles a band of special forces soldiers to travel to Down and fight them on their own turf. He also enlists the help of someone whose special skills might save the day, his estranged brother. In London, Ben Wellington, must deal with the spiral of violence and chaos gripping the city.

Author: Glenn Cooper
First Release: 2015
ISBN: 978-1515041764
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Will Piper

Library of the Dead

The most shocking secret in the history of mankind is about to be revealed...A murderer is on the loose on the streets of New York City: nicknamed the Doomsday Killer, he's claimed six victims in just two weeks, and the city is terrified. Even worse, the police are mystified: the victims have nothing in common, defying all profiling, and all that connects them is that each received a sick postcard in the mail before they died - a postcard that announced their date of death. 

In desperation, the FBI assigns the case to maverick agent Will Piper, once the most accomplished serial killing expert in the bureau's history, now on a dissolute spiral to retirement. Battling his own demons, Will is soon drawn back into a world he both loves and hates, determined to catch the killer whatever it takes. But his search takes him in a direction he could never have predicted, uncovering a shocking secret that has been closely guarded for centuries. 

A secret that once lay buried in an underground library beneath an 8th Century monastery, but which has now been unearthed - with deadly consequences. A select few defend the secret of the library with their lives - and as Will closes in on the truth, they are determined to stop him, at any cost...

NB: Originally published as Secret of the Seventh Son.

Author: Glenn Cooper
First Release: 2009
ISBN: 978-0099534457
Publisher: Arrow Books
Book of Souls

The Library: Only a handful know it exists... It holds the world's most astonishing - and terrifying - information... But the one book that is the key to the greatest secret of all time...is missing.

Former FBI Special Agent Will Piper solved - and survived - the "Doomsday Killer" case...and his reward was a forced early retirement. But the shattering truths he learned about the government's most covert operations won't let him rest - and now he's on the trail of a mysterious volume that's been lost for six centuries. This is the book that inspired Shakespeare and the prophecies of Nostradamus, and once Will gets his hands on it, his life will be worth nothing - his death sentence a top priority handed down from the very highest levels of power.

Because there are some truths too dangerous for anyone to know - those that concern the future, world domination...and the end of everything.

Author: Glenn Cooper
First Release: 2010
ISBN: 978-0099534471
Publisher: Arrow Books
The Keepers of the Library

Prophecy is prologue.

England, 1775. An ambitious American pushes his expedition onward despite dire warnings from the locals. But what Benjamin Franklin discovers on the Isle of Wight isn't just superstition. It's a secret with the power to save the world—or destroy it.

In less than four hundred days, most of the world's population will be dead. Nobody knows why, only when: February 9, 2027.

Retired FBI Special Agent Will Piper is one of the few who will live "Beyond the Horizon." Fifteen years ago, he revealed the prophecy to the world after the hunt for a madman led him to the mystical Library of Vectis, now housed at Area 51, in an unmarked location in the Nevada desert.

Will is determined to live out his days in the Florida sun . . . even as the world sinks into hedonism and despair . . . even as the Doomsday Killer's ominous calling cards resurface . . . until the apocalypse threatens the one thing Will won't compromise on: his own flesh and blood.

Author: Glenn Cooper
First Release: 2012
ISBN: 978-1443409261
Publisher: Harper Collins