In a mere matter of days after receiving a manuscript, the most revered thriller writers were raving about David Ricciardi’s debut novel, WARNING LIGHT—from Steve Berry to Larry Bond and Alex Berenson. Quotes began lining the editor’s inbox after a mere weekend of sending out the manuscript. Mark Greaney has called it “a blazing thriller with relentless pace and impressive detail,” and Lee Child has predicted that WARNING LIGHT “one of the best thrillers you’ll read this year.” Ryan Steck of the Real Book Spy has already called the book “an early favorite for best debut thriller of the year.”
WARNING LIGHT takes off with a bang, as a new covert operator by the name of Zac Miller enters the scene, literally flying under the radar on a job for the CIA. Zac finds himself amidst a mission gone wrong, and soon embarks on a globe-trotting epic in order to clear his own name and set the record straight before he can be captured by the Iranian government—or a litany of enemies he makes along the way to get back to his bosses and save his own skin.

With a crafty, daring protagonist reminiscent of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne, and even Jack Bauer from 24, WARNING LIGHT grabs hold of readers and never lets go until the very last sentence. Ricciardi spins a tale of one man’s harrowing fight-or-flight journey of survival as the whole world puts a target on his chest.
Ricciardi’s over-the-top tale of espionage and escape is brimming with action and twists around every corner. All it takes is ten pages into the book to become hooked.
When a commercial flight violates restricted airspace to make an emergency landing at a closed airport in Iran, the passengers are just happy to be alive and ready to transfer to a functional plane. All of them except one . . .The American technology consultant in business class is not who he says he is. Zac Miller is a CIA analyst. And after an agent’s cover gets blown, Zac–though never trained to be a field operative–volunteers to take his place, to keep a surveillance mission from being scrubbed. Zac thinks it will be easy to photograph the earthquake-ravaged airport that is located near a hidden top secret nuclear facility. But when everything that can go wrong does, he finds himself on the run from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards and abandoned by his own teammates, who think he has gone rogue. Embarking on a harrowing journey through the mountains of Iran to the Persian Gulf and across Europe, Zac can only rely on himself. But even if he makes it out alive, the life he once had may be lost to him forever . . .
About the author : A keen outdoorsman, DAVID RICCIARDI incorporated many personal experiences into Warning Light. He's backpacked through the mountains of the western United States and Alaska, received extensive training from law-enforcement and US special operations personnel, and once woke up for a 2 AM watch aboard a sailboat only to discover that it was headed the wrong way through the Atlantic sea lanes in heavy weather, with one of the crew suffering from hypothermia. In addition to being an avid sailor, David is also a certified scuba rescue diver and a former ski instructor. WARNING LIGHT is his first novel.