Ergebnis für "Ghost" in Literatur & Belletristik

Sieg über die übermächtige KI - oder totale Versklavung. Im dramatischen Finale der Hörspiel-Trilogie "Ghostbox" steht die Zukunft der Menschheit auf dem Spiel. Zum letzten Mal beschwört Ivar Leon Menger mit seinem Sci-Fi-Thriller eine beklemmende Zukunftsvision herauf. Niemand entkommt Kim Isaak: Mit Hilfe des Popsongs "Follow me" sowie einer lückenlosen Gedankenüberwachung per B-LED hat die fanatische KI die Menschheit unterjocht. Es bleibt nur noch eine Hoffnung: Thomas Koch hat einen Computervirus entwickelt, mit dem er Isaaks geheime Serverfarm infizieren will.

Er muss meine Haut nicht berühren, um meinen Körper zu kontrollieren. Er muss nur wissen, wie meine Seele funktioniert. Kat verabscheut Berührungen. Zu viele Hände haben sie gebrochen, zu viele Grenzen wurden überschritten, bis nichts mehr von ihr übrig war. Nähe bedeutet Gefahr. Feuer. Unerträgliche Schmerzen. Niemand berücksichtigt ihr eigenes Verlangen. Niemand - außer ihm. Ein Schatten in der Dunkelheit. Ein unheimlicher Fremder, der immer dann erscheint, wenn ihre Welt am Abgrund steht. Er weckt etwas in ihr, das tief vergraben war: Hunger nach Vergeltung und blutiger Rache.

Als Silyor aus dem Gefängnis zurück in den Dienst geholt wird, stinkt die Sache sofort bis zum Himmel. Immerhin müsste er wegen des angeblichen Mordes an seinem Partner noch über zwanzig Jahre dort versauern. Doch seine Vorgesetzten versprechen ihm, die Strafe zu erlassen, wenn er nach ihrer Pfeife tanzt. Seine Aufgabe: einer Organisation aus Auftragsmördern das Handwerk zu legen. Für ihn eine einfache Sache. Eigentlich. Doch seine eingeschränkte Freiheit entpuppt sich schnell als Selbstmordkommando. Außerdem stimmt irgendetwas ganz und gar nicht in Yorkh.

Saint Sabbat has returned, and she is being hunted by the deadliest of assassins. Gaunt's Ghosts must fight to protect her - but can they defend against treachery from within? It's the culmination of a massive story arc that sees tragedy strike even as the Sabbat Worlds Crusade is given new hope with the reappearance of the Saint herself. Mysticism and warfare collide, with compelling results.

The System took over the whole world in an instant, and people lost any ability to communicate with each other. But the deadies weren't the only ones who could get better. Over time all the peoples of the earth found ways to contact each other, with the System allowing them to trade, communicate, and come to each other's aid.

Software engineer Caroline Crowell is a dead woman walking. When the top-secret lab she’s working in goes up in flames and she barely makes it out alive, she knows her time is up. If she wants to stay alive and protect the only family she has left, she has to disappear. But first she needs help. Someone to watch her back and make sure her enemy doesn’t get any closer while she plans her escape. Seth “Phantom” King trusts no one but his team. He knows what people are capable of, and he knows how far a person can be pushed before they break.

For a thousand years, the Sabbat Worlds have been lost to the Imperium, claimed by the dread powers of Chaos. Now, a mighty crusade seeks to return the sector to Imperial rule. And at the forefront of that crusade are Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt and the Tanith First and Only - better known as Gaunt’s Ghosts. Trapped in the grinding trench warfare of Fortis Binary, the Ghosts find themselves drawn into a conspiracy to assassinate the crusade’s leader, Warmaster Macaroth.

As the days grow shorter and the temperature drops, Halloween approaches. Come, brave listener, pull up a chair, and spend some time with master storyteller Stephen Fry as he tells us some of his favourite ghost stories of all time, in truly terrifying spatial audio. From the headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow to the tortured spirits of M.R. James, from Edgar Allan Poe’s terrifying tale of a doppelganger to Charlotte Riddell’s Open Door that should definitely stay shut, join Stephen as he tells you some truly terrifying tales.

Marine Corps Captain Jacob Brown and his battlesynth partner, Tin Man, were on their own… The pair have been in the wind aboard their ship, Boneshaker, since they uncovered a great conspiracy. The Cridal Premier, Seeladas Dalton, had been replaced by a cybernetic imposter and now Jacob has discovered that the deception goes much deeper. Leaders on Earth and even within the Eshquarian Empire are acting… odd. Even the commander of Scout Fleet, Admiral Marcus Webb, is not quite himself lately. Jacob and Tin Man now have no safe harbor, no support, and no idea what to do.

Schon seit Wochen ist Lena Gruenwald (Yvonne Greitzke) auf der Suche nach der perfekten Story, um endlich als Redakteurin beim Berliner Tagesspiegel übernommen zu werden. Dabei wird die junge Journalismus-Praktikantin von einem Thema ganz besonders angezogen: dem Jenseits. Auch auf Lenas privatem Youtube-Kanal dreht sich alles nur um Geister, Ouija-Boards oder Tarotkarten. Doch eines Tages kommt die Dreiundzwanzigjährige dem Tod näher, als sie geahnt hätte - beginnend mit einer unerwarteten Nachricht aus Heidelberg.

I have always been a bird. Caged by one prison or another when the only thing I ever wanted was to fly away. Sold. Beaten. Starved. Drugged. Nothing scares me anymore. Until him. He makes the numbness go away. He is hazardous to me. It has nothing to do with his mafia lifestyle, and everything to do with what he offers. A gilded prison. A retreat from everything that I once knew. The reality I have no desire to return to. He thinks he's caged me, but soon I'm going to fly.

Cascadia and Auria have felled each other, and in the wake of the Aurian king using a weapon made from machines long thought to be extinct, the moon has awakened and has begun to fall. The ghosts of the machines speak, telling humanity that judgment is coming.

The discovery of lost letters between Alexander Hamilton and George Washington, describing historical events that never happened, sends shockwaves through the academic world. Meanwhile, a citywide surveillance program is coming to New York, on a groundswell of dirty money and dead bodies. To hard-nosed Brooklyn reporter Nell Bluth, the two mysteries couldn't be more different - until she finds the missing link. A secret war is raging on the streets of New York. It's a battle to control the narrative of history itself, and the winner rewrites the world.

An alien spacecraft four times the size of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier enters the solar system. Tensions run hot within the UN, but the alien vessel doesn't approach Earth. Instead, it sits off at L4, over a hundred million miles from Earth, baffling scientists around the world. Chris "Crash" Williams leads an international crew to investigate the appearance of this ghost ship, but he quickly learns that the spacecraft isn't as dead as it seems.

Hanna Harp’s incendiary debut paranormal dark romance, perfect for fans of Sadie Kincaid’s Forged in Blood and Keri Lake’s Anathema, follows Cade, a devoted hunter fighting to shield his sister Callisto from a haunting generational curse, but when a mysterious spirit begins to break down...

A Vegas cocktail waitress. An Indian herbalist. A British chemistry professor. An Italian-American widow. Four unique women with one thing in common: Each is haunted by a tragedy from her past. Cynthia, Rohini, Jane, and Angela meet on a food blogging site and bond over recipes. On impulse, they decide to open The Secret Spice, an elegant cafe on the magnificent ocean liner, the RMS Queen Mary, currently a floating hotel in Long Beach, California. Rich in history and tales of supernatural occurrences, the ship hides her own dark secrets.

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Ein Anruf der Anwaltskanzlei Rogers & Rogers verändert schlagartig das Leben des Literaturprofessors Samuel Anderson. Er, der als kleines Kind von seiner Mutter verlassen wurde, soll nun für sie bürgen: Nach ihrem tätlichen Angriff auf einen republikanischen Präsidentschaftskandidaten verlangt man von ihm, die Integrität einer Frau zu bezeugen, die er seit mehr als zwanzig Jahren nicht gesehen hat. Ein Gedanke, der ihm zunächst völlig abwegig erscheint.

Adam Toren escaped his violent past as a soldier in Israel and a Mossad operator in Tokyo. Living off the grid in San Francisco, he becomes Silicon Valley’s most skilled spy-for-hire until an old comrade asks for help. A Russian plot to penetrate the world’s largest social media company and to dominate global satellite internet coverage is only weeks from liftoff. With its Silicon Valley agents assassinated, Mossad turns to Adam.

Psychologist Dr. Ophelia Bray has dedicated her life to the study and prevention of ERS—a space-based condition most famous for a case that resulted in the brutal murders of twenty-nine people. When she's assigned to a small exploration crew, she's eager to make a difference. But as they begin to establish residency on an abandoned planet, it becomes clear that crew is hiding something. While Ophelia focuses on her new role, her crewmates are far more interested in investigating the eerie, ancient planet and unraveling the mystery behind the previous colonizer's hasty departure.