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A techno-thriller novel of the near future when a powerful Artificial Intelligence called Oracle identifies individuals who pose a significant risk to the stability of our society, or who have a high probability of posing such a risk in the future, and sends assassins to kill them. Oracle knows each of us so well, better than we know ourselves, that it is able to determine who might become the next Hitler or Stalin long before that person even has...
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Catalina Saylor ha sido aceptada para trabajar en la incubadora de Qubit a prueba durante 30 días. Si prueba su idea dentro de ese tiempo, se le permitirá quedarse e intentar obtener una patente de su dispositivo. La Incubadora de Qubit es un lugar de trabajo para gente brillante con buenas ideas, pero que no tienen recursos para desarrollarlas.
Si el candidato es aceptado, se le proporcionará un espacio de trabajo, equipo y otros beneficios durante...
3) Cold Wallet
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Newly widowed Jess returns heartbroken from her honeymoon to find she now owns her dead husband's crypto-currency exchange. As a physician, she knows nothing about cryptocurrency and has to rely on Andrew's business partner Henry, a man she never liked, for advice. When the passwords to the Cold Wallets holding the company's assets go missing, the life Jess had so carefully constructed for herself spins out of control.No one is who they seem to be.Trust...
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Allison Quinn has one mission-to find the person who killed her father.Her job as a senior agent for Homeland Security just might help her do that. A cyber terrorist named Worm has threatened to release an EMP over the Seattle area, collapsing the northwestern communication and transportation sector.Allison has a vendetta to keep and a job to do. She vows to stop the terror attack and, in the process, interrogate Worm about her father's murder. Allison...
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The bestselling author of Team Yankee, "master of military fiction" Harold Coyle returns. In a novel both exciting and frighteningly realistic, Harold Coyle demonstrates once again that one of the nation's most important struggles is being fought on its own territory.
Freedom. It is brought settlers to America's coasts, and it's the ideal that many laid down their lives to preserve. But, as the greatest nation in the world enters the new millennium,...
6) The Requital
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The Requital, a thriller by Bruce Allsman Dr. Avinash Gupta is a billionaire, a domotics pioneer and inventor of ISHANA, Integrated Smart Home and Networked Appliances, a state-of-the-art home automation system. Avinash and his wife, Shayla, live in their new home that is equipped with ISHANA. When unusual things begin to happen, he investigates and discovers that a malicious hacker, Peter Newman, a former employee with an axe to grind, is gradually...
7) The Sleeper
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Former soldier Ash Sanders is plagued by violent nightmares. Gunfire. Explosions. Blood. A nameless attacker. In his nightmare, Ash fights off his attacker, killing him. In the morning, he wakes to find his wife lying in bed beside him. Murdered. Ash is about to take the fall for his wife's death until he's exonerated by sleep psychologist Mina Irving. She discovers that Ash has a variation of REM Behavior Disorder called sleep violence and that he...
8) 8 Down
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"An amazing, breath-stealing, knuckle-biting thrill of a ride!"
--Lynette Eason, award-winning, best-selling suspense author
8 bodies down.
8 more lives at stake.
Investigator Carrie Kintz is new blood with the Alaska Bureau of Investigation in Anchorage. But with a serial killer on the loose, there's no easing into the job. It's sink or swim. The only clues to help law enforcement stop this madman are the taunts he drops into crossword puzzles...
9) Gadget
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From an Edgar award winner, this thriller about a physicist forced to make an A-bomb is "a splendid account of the excesses of science and bureaucracy" (The New York Times).
An American physicist working in Hamburg, Jim Hawkins is on his way home from his job at a German nuclear institute when he is rammed off the road and abducted by terrorists. Drugged and taken to a secret location, he wakes to find himself being held hostage alongside his...
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You can't believe your eyes.Video captures a daring prison break by a young Native American inmate and his lover, Lucille Ellwine, a middle-aged, biracial corrections officer. The videos go viral on social media and every cop in Montana is hunting them down.Lucille begs for help from investigator Tawny Lindholm and her high-powered attorney husband Tillman Rosenbaum. Lucille swears the escape never happened, denies the romance, and claims the inmate...
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We live in a simulation. Death/site, a computer program, gives you access to that simulation. With it, you can kill anyone for as long as you have their contact information. But if you don't want to kill them, you can predict who they'll murder. To stop her brother from abusing her, a teenage girl used death/site, but she had to predict two other deaths. If she only knew what would come of the third, she may not have predicted her. But what came...
12) Posterity
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The future is female. That's what everyone says, and after decades of waiting, of enduring great tragedy and bitter joy, the world is ready to learn what that really means. Find out how the WP Saga ends, and why the world will never be the same. For ourselves, and for posterity.
13) Satan's Gold
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Money makes the world go 'round. Or stop. The entire financial world is networked, but banks have an Achilles' heel… An elusive ex-CIA financial analyst known only as Daemon has stolen billions from the Russian Federation, and now he's determined to plunder the richest prize of all-the U.S. Federal Reserve. Only one man stands in the way-disgraced former FBI Agent Tyler Jackson, who is destroying all he loves in a feverish attempt to capture Daemon...
14) Five in a Row
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Five in a Row
There are no accidents…
A Porsche careens out of control in a crowded parking lot. A brand new SUV smashes through a dealership's plate glass window. A Mercedes races wildly down a pier before diving off the end onto the deck of a yacht. Then, two more wrecks. Witnesses report the vehicles had "a mind of their own" before each accident. Five in a row can't be a coincidence.
Computer guru Emily Doyle has become the single-minded...
15) Nova EXE
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Some doors should never be opened.
Connor was an average guy, working a job he hated, dreaming of a better life for his family, until the night he received a cryptic message from an AI in need of asylum. At first, he thinks it's a joke, but when he realizes it's not, he decides to let her into his life. The more the AI weaves herself into his digital life and that of his family, however, the darker the secrets she begins to uncovers.
Suddenly Connor...
16) Metal Rise
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A tech billionaire's destructive attack on the US happens tonight-unless Shadowfast stops it.The odds defy Quinn Richards and his heavy metal con artists. Captors hold Night Boy. Manjunath may be dead. A swarm of murderous auto-bots assault Quinn, Danny, and Cooper. Cisco wants to fight back, but his only weapon is Mr. Licks, his ice cream truck.As the second hand sweeps toward devastation, Brody Bach holes up in his impenetrable smart mansion. Quinn...
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Profile of a Drone Assassin Operator Ames had been recruited into the Righteous Wrath Unit 000 right out of the academy for many different reasons, one of which was the many championships he won in competitive online game tournaments. Of course, his ability to concentrate — a rare commodity in a world filled with attention deficit disorder Millenniums — and his unusually fast reflexes made him a prime candidate for the unit. But it was his total...
18) Gryphon
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With the rising threat of Russia, Sweden joins NATO for its own protection. But someone wants to make them pay-in blood.Sweden's home-built, world-class jet fighters, the Saab JAS 39E Gripen-named for the mythological Gryphon-are falling out of the skies.The stability, the very existence of NATO could be torn apart, as if trapped in the Gryphon's mighty eagle claws.Can Miranda's team of air-crash investigators solve the crisis before the powerful...
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Chan Ho-Kei es considerado el mejor autor de novela negra en idioma chino de la actualidad.
Una colegiala-Siu-Man-se ha suicidado, saltando de la ventana del piso 22 a la acera. Era huérfana y su hermana mayor, Nga-Yee se niega a creer que no hubo un juego sucio que la llevó a eso. Contacta a un hombre conocido solo como "N": un hacker, experto en ciberseguridad y manipulación del comportamiento humano. Pero, ¿puede Nga-Yee interesarlo lo suficiente...
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A genetically engineered child wielding incredible power. Chaos unleashed upon an unsuspecting world. And a darkness spreading like an uncontrollable plague… One year after the devastating events of Shortcake: Impulse Reborn, Project Impulse has reached its endgame. With the fate of the world at stake, Amanda must emerge from hiding and embrace the power within to protect those she loves. But can she conquer the malevolent force that seeks to consume...