Ergebnis für "Shilling" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Charles Shilling has always had a soft spot for the poor and downtrodden, so when his friend comes to him with the case of a missing runaway, he wants to give it his best. Unfortunately, there’s more on his mind than one missing girl. The case is fighting for dominance with the more pressing issues of his personal life, and a rather intriguing discovery he is honoured to have been brought in to investigate – by the only person in the world who can leave him star-struck.

Charles Shilling is about to begin his day with a funeral… and it will only get worse from there. What seems like a harmless little investigation turns dark fast, and Shilling is in no state to hold back the tide of cruelty coming his way. Worse, with the rate he’s falling for Florin, he’s never been so vulnerable to revenge…

It was supposed to be over, but the Jack of Hearts is back… Charles Shilling nearly managed to get his life together. Happy, sober, and engaging with the closest thing to therapy he would probably ever consider… Then the next body showed up. Another dead woman, a victim of the Jack. Except the Jack is dead. Shilling helped bury them. Now the papers are claiming that was a set up and he’s the real killer… Amelia Florin is certain of two things: that she and Shilling caught the right murderer the first time, and that her Charlie isn’t the killer. Now she just has to find a way to prove it.

Shilling and Florin are back in the game, and playing it like never before…Charles Shilling tends to think of the government as the enemy. His anarchic politics have always leant toward the 'burn it all down' approach. Except now he has skin in the game. He has friends in high places... and they need him. What starts as a simple blackmail scheme soon turns deadly, and Charlie isn't one to leave his friends in the cold. Amelia Florin is desperately worried about her father, and now his chance to retire is sinking into muddy waters.

Charles Shilling is a walking disaster. While having embraced that aspect of his personality some time ago, his friends and loved ones do their best to keep him on the straight and narrow – as much as anyone can. Unfortunately, he’s worse than ever after what happened with Kopeck and Florin. It seems like no one can talk sense into him now. Until a new form of tragedy strikes close to home, and stokes the beast that Kopeck woke…

Pete signed up to have his brain diced so he could become a better person. Now he lives in the virtual reality realm of Talespace, where he beta-tests everything from new game rules to mental upgrades to robots that will let his AI boss help people in the real world. As brain-uploading technology starts to become more than a toy for the rich, the now-divided America isn't the only place where Talespace's new society, buggy as it is, is badly needed. Will Pete's new home become an irrelevant gamer heaven, or a force for liberty?