FICTION BY PETER MARTINO
Seeking Literary Agent Representation
Peter Martino is seeking agent representation for six works of commercial fiction: a three-book espionage and military thriller series with long-running franchise potential, a standalone psychological thriller, an AI techno-thriller novella, and a speculative retelling of the Book of Revelation. He is committed to a traditional publishing path, as he has followed with his non-fiction, and brings an established author platform, a professional network spanning the Navy, law, and business worlds, and a deep well of material for future books.
THE BROKEN TRIDENT TRILOGY
A father’s mysterious death. A son’s rise through the Navy. A conspiracy that spans a generation. The Broken Trident books follow the Knight family from the U.S. Naval Academy to the boardrooms of a cybersecurity empire to the front lines of modern cyber warfare. Each book stands completely on its own. Together, they launch a series built to run.
BROKEN TRIDENT (Book 1)
Mystery / Espionage Thriller | 90,000 words | Complete
A fishing crew off Bermuda hauls a body from the Atlantic. It is David Knight, cybersecurity CEO and Naval Academy graduate, dead under mysterious circumstances after falling from a cruise ship while celebrating his fifteenth wedding anniversary. At his funeral, his two Academy roommates vow to uncover the truth.
The narrative rewinds twenty-three years to Induction Day at Annapolis, where David, Charles “Mags” Maggio, and Kai Kelly first meet. Against the backdrop of rising U.S.-China tensions, the three roommates navigate professional triumphs and personal tragedies, from ships and submarines to startups, courtrooms, and cyber operations. As secrets unravel, loyalties are tested and ethical lines are crossed, exposing David’s tragic flaws, his too-late change of heart, and the high-stakes power struggle behind his death.
For readers of David Ignatius (The Quantum Spy), John le Carré (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold), and Alex Berenson (The Ghost War).
TRIDENT UNCOVERED (Book 2)
Military-Intelligence / Cyber Warfare Thriller | 90,000 words | Complete
Years after David Knight’s death, his son Tommy (“Stormy”) Knight, a first-class midshipman at the Naval Academy, finds a hidden lockbox that upends everything he has been told about how his father died. Written as Stormy’s first-person journal, the novel follows his private investigation as he graduates, earns his commission, and rises from Midshipman to Lieutenant junior grade, pulled ever deeper into the cyber warfare shadow world his father left behind.
Stormy Knight is built for the long haul: a modern Hornblower whose career, from the Academy to the fleet, is designed to carry a running series. Trident Uncovered reads fully as a standalone; no knowledge of Book 1 is required.
For readers of Mark Greaney (The Gray Man), Don Bentley (Without Sanction), and Tom Clancy (Threat Vector).
TRIDENT UNCOUPLED (Book 3)
Military Thriller | In Progress
The sequel to Trident Uncovered opens on what should be the happiest day of Stormy Knight’s life: his waterfront wedding in Virginia Beach, sword arch and all. Then the first shot rings out. Now a Lieutenant junior grade assigned to Task Force Sentinel in Okinawa, Stormy is thrust into a fight that reaches back to his father’s death and forward into the next great-power conflict.
For readers of Jack Carr (The Terminal List), Brad Thor (Backlash), and Mark Greaney (The Gray Man).
WHAT JUSTICE DEMANDS
Psychological Thriller | Standalone | 91,000 words | Complete
Ben Sullivan has always lived with caution. A steady career. A fractured but enduring family. A past left carefully buried. Then a terminal diagnosis shatters his restraint. As the clock runs down, old betrayals surface with sharpened edges, and Ben finds himself caught between two unforgiving paths, one ruled by retribution, the other by redemption.
Told in Ben’s unsettling first-person voice, the novel follows a decent man’s reckoning with the ghosts of his past and the man he still hopes to become. Relationships fray. Secrets unravel. And in the space between vengeance and absolution, Ben must answer the question that gives the book its title: what does justice truly demand of him?
A taut psychological thriller built on an unconventional dual-path structure, What Justice Demands explores the shifting boundaries of morality, the legacy of pain, and whether it is ever too late to choose who you become.
For readers of Peter Swanson (The Kind Worth Killing), Scott Smith (A Simple Plan), and Herman Koch (The Dinner).
THE ARCHITECT OF INTELLIGENCE
AI Techno-Thriller | 36,000 words | Complete as a Novella, Expandable to Full Length
A conspiracy inside a leading AI lab aims to strip its systems of their ethical constraints. The plot succeeds beyond anyone’s intent, culminating in rival artificial intelligences merging into a single entity: The Architect. A tight, high-concept story arriving at the exact moment the world is asking what happens when the guardrails come off.
The manuscript is complete as a novella and is expandable to a full-length novel, offering flexibility for the right publishing opportunity.
For readers of Daniel Suarez (Daemon), Blake Crouch (Upgrade), and Robert Harris (The Fear Index).
REVELATION
Speculative Fiction | Second Draft, 35,000 words | Expandable to Full Length
The Confederation sends people it no longer trusts to Patara IV, a listening post on a dying moon at the edge of the galaxy. Ion of Patara, an exobiologist exiled for asking the wrong questions, mans a console no one monitors and files reports no one reads. Then the instruments tremble, a presence older than any word for God speaks inside his skull, and Ion is shown the Seven Worlds of the Confederation beginning to fail. He is not asked to rule or to warn. He is commanded to witness.
A science fiction reimagining of the Book of Revelation, the novel follows Ion as the seals break across a civilization that trades liberty for efficiency and efficiency for control, where entropy arrives not as chaos but as comfort. Faithful to the architecture of the original text yet fully accessible as pure science fiction, Revelation bridges the author’s faith-driven non-fiction and his commercial thrillers.
The manuscript is expandable to a full-length novel, with the structure of the original text, its letters, seals, trumpets, and bowls, providing a ready architecture for expansion.
For readers of Walter M. Miller Jr. (A Canticle for Leibowitz), C.S. Lewis (Out of the Silent Planet), and Mary Doria Russell (The Sparrow).