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1) 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...
3) 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...
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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...
5) 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...
6) 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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The Central Intelligence Agency has a hidden hand in the tech world, controlling an intricate web of corporate entities carefully concealed from the public. All for their own nefarious ends - to gather intelligence, weaponize social media outlets, and craft the ultimate human agent.Journalist James Lewis uncovered the truth that threatened to reveal the CABAL's activities and so they acted swiftly to silence him and his editor, Daphne Meyers before...
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Allison Quinn is willing to risk everything to prevent the nation's worst terrorist attack.Working undercover at Grand Canyon National Park, Allison Quinn is in position when the cyber terrorist Blitz makes his move. Apprehending him isn't enough though. She has to intercept the kill codes he has sold to a third party. If she can't stop that handoff, the devastating attack will collapse the power grid and throw the nation into a state of anarchy.Hiking...
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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...
10) 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.
11) 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...
12) 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...
13) 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...
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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...
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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...
17) Intruder
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He's got the whole town in his hands. The technical glitches in Hollister, California, began inconspicuously enough-errors in department store billing and production problems at local factories. But the episodes become more malicious when falsified criminal records are strategically released to employers and press, fake medical reports are sent to spouses, and the city's traffic lights are hacked and thrown into deadly chaos. The only link between...
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Lorsqu'on découvre une technologie permettant de contrler un être humain, que fait-on ? On opte pour un tirage au sort à l'échelle mondiale pour désigner la personne qui en sera la victime. L'agent spécial Bép-Bép, face à cette situation, ne choisit pas la voie du hasard. En tant que tireur d'élite, il décide de prendre les choses en main, déterminé à ne pas manquer sa cible.
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Pour Michel Latimer, l'acte d'écrire...
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Un jeune paléontologue, en quête d'une découverte extraordinaire, croise le chemin d'un ranger canadien qui a été témoin de ce qu'il n'aurait pas dû voir. Malgré leurs différences, ils unissent leurs forces pour élucider l'un des plus grands mystères contemporains. Ensemble, ils bravent des dangers inouïs et explorent l'inconcevable aux confins de notre planète, tout cela dans le but de révéler une vérité longtemps dissimulée.
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Paul Cooper, Ph.D. is a hotshot in genetics, but no university will hire him as a professor because he's a white, heterosexual male. Then, the mysterious technology billionaire Garridan Luxman offers Paul his dream job working on a project that could change the world. By why does Mr. Luxman want to keep it so secret? And what does he plan to do with the project once it's finished?
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