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Department Z tracks down a doomsday weapon in an edge-of-your-seat spy thriller from the Edgar Award–winning author who sold eighty million books worldwide.
Professor Toller has created a weapon that could change the world as we know it. The threat is imminent as the professor and his formula are kidnapped, and it is left to the head of Department Z, Gordon Craigie, to save the day.
Department Z is a small and little-known faction of the intelligence...
3) Zero Days
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In the arsenal of cyber weapons out there, these zero days are the most deadly. Like nukes...
A new and dangerous computer bug is sweeping the internet. But this bug is different. Smart, quick, sophisticated, and developed by elite hackers working for a cybercrime syndicate, it can break through an unknown flaw in the world's most secure computer chips and cripple any system within seconds - the ultimate cyber weapon.
Reluctant American cyber...
4) Rebellium
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In a fast paced thriller, Chandler Scott continues his quest for the dream story. What will it cost him? His career, his love, his life?Continuing his dangerous investigations, he discovers plots more sinister than even he could ever imagine. As he plunges into the world of secessionists and government run wild, he soon realizes that his life hangs in the balance. He must decide whom he can trust-his documentary partner with a dark past or the people...
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Dodge novels volume 2
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seveneves, Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon returns with a wildly inventive and entertaining science fiction thriller—Paradise Lost by way of Phillip K. Dick—that unfolds in the near future, in parallel worlds.
In his youth, Richard “Dodge” Forthrast founded Corporation 9592, a gaming company that made him a multibillionaire. Now in his middle years, Dodge appreciates his comfortable, unencumbered...
6) Jinxed
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Jinxed (McCulloch) volume 1
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Lacey Chu has big dreams of working for the company behind the 'baku' - a customizable smart pet that functions as a phone but makes the perfect companion for its user. The only problem is, she's just been rejected from Profectus Academy - the elite academy for cutting-edge tech. Then Lacey meets Jinx ... Jinx is an incredibly advanced cat baku who opens up a world that Lacey never new existed, including entry into the hallowed halls of Profectus....
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This profound and accessible book details how science is studying nature's best ideas to solve our toughest 21st-century problems.
If chaos theory transformed our view of the universe, biomimicry is transforming our life on Earth. Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature - taking advantage of evolution's 3.8 billion years of R&D since the first bacteria. Biomimics study nature's best ideas: photosynthesis, brain power, and shells - and adapt...
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Master novelist Drury probes the controversy and political machinations as America strives to land on Mars . . .
A mission that may be torn apart by the nation's turmoil . . .
The Throne of Saturn shows the struggle of dedicated and courageous astronauts to set foot on the red planet and maintain our quest for the stars
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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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Course of empire volume 1
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In the high mountains of Tibet, rumors are spreading. People whisper of an outbreak, of thousands of dead, of bodies pushed into mass graves. It is some strange new disease ... a disease, they say, that can kill in minutes.
The Chinese government says the rumors aren't true, but no one is allowed in or out of Tibet.
At the Pentagon, Admiral James Curtiss is called to an emergency meeting. Satellite images prove that a massive genocide is underway,...
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Donovan Nash novels volume 3
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Donovan Nash has a secret he'll do anything to keep. But he's the prime suspect after someone steals a fifty million dollar executive jet, and FBI agent Veronica Montero put him squarely in the crosshairs. As she digs, she discovers Nash's secret - a revelation that, if made public, would stun the world. Operating on her own agenda, Montero blackmails Nash into helping her hunt down a man she wants dead.
Powerless against the information Montero...
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There is a war going on. A war between the dominant power, the undisputed victor of the Cold War and the richest country in the world, versus the ascending power, the most populous nation on the earth that wishes to claim a place in the world order. This war is not fought by their armed forces on the battlefields, with missiles in the air, or navies on the open seas. No, instead it is fought by nerds and wonks in research labs, in patent offices and...
14) Caste American
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You're Wanted Because the People Deserve Justice. Jimmy Larkin's mouth dried, his armpits dampened, and a nervous twitch tremored through his body. The teacher's reaction was identical to anyone in 2024 who'd received the screen-paralyzing notification known as the Medusa. No initial explanation of your crime; no chance to conceal your guilt from your entire list of contacts or the public domain; nothing to do but accept the fact that someone, somewhere...
15) Speed the Dawn
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Donovan Nash novels volume 8
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In the style of Clive Cussler, best-selling author Philip Donlay climbs to a new height of terror in his 8th Donovan Nash thriller.
Hundreds of white-hot meteor fragments plunge toward Earth near Monterey Bay, California. Huge fires ignite the tinder-dry landscape and, as the sun sets, the power grid collapses and the fires grow, illuminating a nightmare created in hell itself. Donovan Nash realizes he is trapped.
Injured and growing desperate,...
16) Abnormal End
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A KILL CODE SURVIVOR In KILL CODE, Jackie Winn narrowly survived attacks by ruthless assassins Now, she's fighting for her life again HER ALLY Leo Marston, retired sniper assassin, is at her side; friend, lover and mentor. Despite their difficult pasts and uncertain future, they band together to combat the enemy THE CAUSE Terrorists directed by fiendish software unknowingly unleashed by Jackie in KILL CODE to cast an entire city into darkness and...
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The Lyon family was truly a red-blooded all-American family, and well known as a strong honest, very wealthy family, in Texas and other parts of the world. John was the patriarch of the Lyon family. John started his empire in the late 1880s. Born to a well-off family in New Mexico, his father was a cattleman who owned a large cattle ranch, south of Santa-Fe some twenty-odd miles. Due to a tragic accident when John was about sixteen, he lost both parents...
18) Perfect People
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A couple desperate to have a child consider one unsettling option in this thriller by the #1 international bestselling author of the Roy Grace series.
After the tragic loss of their young son to a rare genetic disorder, John and Naomi discover they both carry a rogue gene. Having another child by conventional means is too much risk to bear.
When they find geneticist Dr Leo Dettore it seems like the answer to their prayers. Every aspect of the...
19) Arnarstapi
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La guerra por el dominio del clima ya ha empezado en una remota aldea de Islandia.
Un inesperado cambio meteorológico está a punto de acabar con la vida de un consagrado y mediático alpinista recién llegado a Islandia. Tras comentarlo con los habitantes de Arnarstapi, una remota aldea del noroeste de Islandia, el montañero decide investigar los misteriosos experimentos científicos que se llevan a cabo desde una gran antena de telecomunicaciones...
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A Chinese invasion force, struck and wiped out the entire US Pacific fleet and a full conquest of America seems certain. The lady president and an unlikely ally, Ox, a hacker, join forces to stop the invasion and repair the cyber defenses. For years an unsuspecting United States did not know that it's entire defense establishment, from security satellites to requisition orders, fed all that data into a Chinese supercomputer hidden deep within Beijing....
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