Ergebnis für "Black" in Technothriller

Eine exklusive Kurzgeschichte, die 10 Jahre nach dem totalen Blackout beginnt... Immer wieder kommt es vor: Es gibt einen Stromausfall, und plötzlich geht nichts mehr. Meist kommt der Strom nach einiger Zeit wieder und alles ist gut. Was, wenn das mal nicht so wäre? Marc Elsberg hat das Szenario in einem atemberaubenden Thriller ausgemalt und damit bereits Millionen Leser*innen und Hörer*innen begeistert. Jetzt, zum 10-jährigen Jubiläum seines Megabestsellers "Blackout" hat Marc Elsberg eine exklusive Kurzgeschichte geschrieben, die erzählt, wie es weitergeht...

Daniel Petrovich, ehemaliges Mitglied des berüchtigten Black-Flag-Programms des US-Verteidigungsministeriums, schützt ein Geheimnis, das tief im Pentagon verborgen wurde. Er wird von seinem ehemaligen befehlshabenden Offizier erpresst, noch eine letzte Mission durchzuführen. Jetzt zerfällt Daniels sorgfältig konstruierte Existenz als Normalbürger, denn die Behörden beginnen eine erbarmungslose Jagd auf ihn. Er muss in einem an die Serie „24“ erinnernden Rennen gegen die Uhr versuchen, die schockierende Wahrheit über seine Vergangenheit zu unterdrücken.

Chaos in Europa, der Strom ist weg! Sabotage durch Terroristen? Oder ein Angriff von einem anderen Land? Die Politik ist ratlos - droht ein Krieg? Als ein französisches Atomkraftwerk havariert, müssen Millionen Menschen aus dem Loire-Gebiet fliehen. Doch kaum jemand kann helfen. Die Lage auf dem Kontinent wird immer schlimmer. Gemeinsam mit der jungen Journalistin Lauren Shannon (Katrin Hess) begibt sich Manzano (Sven Hasper) auf eine atemlose Odyssee durch Europa - gejagt, verfolgt und verletzt, aber immer mit einem Ziel vor Augen: diesen Angriff auf unsere Zivilisation zu beenden!

It should have been a routine mission: stop the sale of a bio-organic weapon, round up the bad guys, and fly home before breakfast. Harmony Black and Jessie Temple are field agents for Vigilant Lock, a covert agency that defends humanity against supernatural threats; espionage, monsters, and mayhem are all in a day’s work. What they find this time, though, is a puzzle demanding an answer.

When a Muslim cleric predicts planes will fall from the sky, America braces for a terrorist attack. But when the prediction proves true, the real cause is far more terrifying: a microbe that eats oil, effectively destroying all gas-operated mechanisms. Gillette, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control, understands the devastation that the microbe could wreak. But his far-more-chilling theory is that the microbe is synthetic and the work of terrorists.

1961. Hidden deep within the forests of central Soviet Russia is a place that doesn’t appear on any map: a city called Arzamas-16. Here a community of dedicated scientists, technicians and engineers are building the most powerful nuclear device the world will ever see - 3,000 times more powerful than Hiroshima. But 10 days before the bomb is to be tested, a young physicist is found dead. His body contains enough radioactive poison to kill thousands. The Arzamas authorities believe it is suicide - they want the corpse disposed of and the incident forgotten.

A rogue Russian nuke sails toward the harbors of Los Angeles in the hull of a ramshackle sailboat. Without destroying a single building, the bomb shatters the latticework of the American dream, toppling one piece of the economy after another. A group of Special Forces veterans and their prepper friends scramble for survival in a worldwide catastrophe so psychologically disruptive they are left questioning everything they ever believed to be true.

Special Agent Lisa Tanchik is the best at taking down cybercriminals. So when the FBI discovers a multibillion-dollar black market online, she’s tasked with finding the creator and bringing him to justice. Donning one of her many digital disguises, Tanchik goes undercover into the network. Brilliant college student Nate Fallon started his site as an idealistic experiment. But his platform has made illegal trade not only more efficient - but also more dangerous. Now the FBI aren’t the only ones out to get him.

They killed Patton when he opposed them. They've cowered Presidents into going to war. For more than half a century, a secret organization of Army officers known as The Line has been covertly manipulating US Policy. Now, in a political climate rife with dissent and unrest, The Line has ordered a pivotal top-secret operation that will let the world know who is really in charge: take out the President on Pearl Harbor Day. But The Line didn't count on Boomer Watson and Major Benita Trace....

In near-future Baltimore, scientific breakthroughs in genetic engineering promise to cure the incurable. But these new technologies are not without a dark side. Powerful criminal organizations thrive on peddling illicit genetic wares, waging an underground war unlike any the city has ever seen.

The virus came, and the world fell into an abyss. Starvation camps, corporate farms, endless ghettos, and failed states darken a future where most of the population has been twisted by the disease. To protect itself, a corrupt system pays Christian Black and others like him to exterminate violent degenerates who would destroy what's left of the world. Unfortunately, a mistake has been made and Christian has put too many of the wrong ones to death. Laws have been broken. Punishment comes for Christian.

Getting the Inter-body Profiling Examination Application (IPEA) implant was supposed to enhance Tommy McGregor's health and wellbeing. Make him healthier, better looking and live forever. But instead he had swiftly found himself losing his girlfriend, his job and ending up a man on the run. DI Valentina and her partner DS Roberts find themselves investigating a complex case where nothing is what it appears. The hunt is for a dangerous psychopath, hiding behind a digital mask, a killer who is prepared to go to any lengths to implement their twisted plan.

Investigative journalist Sam Cleave finds himself running from the site of an execution he barely escapes. Chased by a sinister militia captain with Nazi roots and a penchant for setting dogs on his targets, he has to stay alive long enough to deliver the damning evidence on his camera to the authorities.

How many people would you kill to stop a war? It's the question burning in Cole West's mind as he and his Black Spear allies reload to leap once more into the fire. A U.S. Congressman is killed in an American city, in broad daylight, by an unknown weapon. An undercover CIA agent burns alive during his extraction before he can reveal what he's learned. Bleeding-edge foreign military prototypes find themselves in the hands of organized crime on the streets of the United States.

"Welcome to Black Spear." With these four words Cole West is immediately thrust into the shadowy world of the military's most deadly black-ops program. No warning. No training. No choice but to buckle up as Black Spear conscripts him to fight against a paramilitary group of renegade veterans known only as "Terminal." Terminal is no ragtag militia but a veritable private army of disgruntled soldiers with one mission: Stop at nothing to topple the government they think failed them.

Dr. Arthur Beeman is a brilliant genetic engineer who has developed the deadliest viral weapon in history. Obsessed with the cosmic secrets of life and death, he abducts two young women for horrific human experiments, not knowing he’s under surveillance by North Korean agents who plan to blackmail him to obtain the virus. North Korea is planning to start a war, and intends to unleash Beeman’s weapon upon the world. The clock is counting down to zero. The odds are terrible.

Law enforcement agencies have chosen to ignore rather than investigate dozens of political figures and defectors who have died under mysterious circumstances. When a Democratic National Committee staff member is murdered before the presidential election, Washington, D.C. police is also uninterested in investigating the crime. The President is well behind in the polls. Some powerful people want assurances that the President will never take the oath of office if he unexpectedly wins.

The race to Mars is not without its peril. As the world’s superpowers vie for supremacy in space, the true intent of the aliens, and the ultimate destiny for the human species, is revealed. Can the world marshal the will and resources of its people to strike back and take control of its own fate? Can NASA, led by Richard “Rock” Crandon, and America’s adversaries find the ultimate courage to face what lies at Discovery’s End and save the world?

After their last tangle with eerie physics in the supernatural woodlands of Romania, Nina Gould and Sam Cleave find that their passage home is once more marred by the Order of the Black Sun. With the sudden resurface of their missing colleague, billionaire adventurer Dave Purdue, Sam and Nina are once more running for their lives.

After Sam Cleave's perilous experience on the North Sea oil rig, Deep Sea One, he endevours to take life a little slower and keep to his mundane journalism job at the local newspaper. However, an unforeseen turn of events urges Sam to accept a freelance writing job offered by none other than Jefferson Daniels, the world renowned explorer with whom he shared their first terrifying expedition to Antarctica in search of Ice Station Wolfenstein a year or two before.