In these books, an ordinary setting is turned upside down when people take over the world. Matthew Betley wrote a book called The Neighborhood - which I can't find to link through Goodreads. A suburban community is under the control of mercenaries hired to retrieve an object. There are super-competent people with military backgrounds, ordinary heroics, and a lot of threat. The book was very clear, with sketches of people and their backgrounds being given in a more objective way than many books.

In The Last Invitation by Darby Kane, an ambitious lawyer is invited to join a group that can cause problems or make them disappear. When powerful people can turn police evidence upside down, you're in trouble in you get on their bad side.

Both of these books were creepily compelling for me because they took ordindary situations (suburbs, business-friends who help each other out) and turned those situations deadly. What made them particularly appealing was the competence of the adversaries and the real danger faced by a range of people, some good, some bad, but all ordinary.