Ergebnis für "The Treachery Game" in Alle Kategorien

Nearly every major city in the world has them: hidden underground seduction lairs where men gather to trade the most devastatingly effective techniques ever invented to seduce women. This is not fiction. For two years, bestselling author Neil Strauss lived among these men. Using the pseudonym...

Victor is the perfect killer. He has no past. He will stop at nothing. And he can find you anywhere. In sweltering Algiers, ultra-efficient hitman Victor executes a fellow assassin. But when the CIA comes calling, Victor must pose as his victim to identify the dead man's next mark--a mission that takes him across Europe to the bloody streets of Rome. Working alongside a group of vicious mercenaries, Victor faces an impossible choice: to do what's right, or to sacrifice the only thing he cares about: his life.

Spielerisch die Welt verstehen Videospiele können die Welt verändern – und zwar auf positive Art und Weise. Davon ist die international hoch angesehene österreichische Informatikerin Johanna Pirker überzeugt. Sie zeigt, dass Videospiele nicht nur Kultur- und Innovationstreiber sind...

It started out like any other Tuesday. I spent 12 hours writing algorithms for one of the largest companies in the world and then came home to work on a pet project of mine—feeding facts about the men I knew into a formula to find my perfect match before my twenties came barreling to a close.

In the early days of 1924, Mary Russell and her husband, the inimitable Sherlock Holmes, are given an urgent task by his brother, Mycroft: find a British spy gone missing along India's northwest frontier, where men are dying and trouble is brewing. The spy's name? It is one Holmes knows from his sojourn in India long ago, and one Russell knows from a book. It is Kimball O'Hara, known to the world by the name Rudyard Kipling called him - Kim....

Miles Vorkosigan graduates from the Barrayaran Military Academy with high expectations of ship command, but is disappointed with an assignment as meteorologist to Lazkowski Base, an arctic training camp. His tenure in the windy, snow-covered north is cut short when Miles narrowly averts a massacre between the trigger-happy base commander and mutinous recruits. After a brief stay under 'house arrest', Miles is re-assigned to investigate a suspicious military build-up near a wormhole nexus.

Micah Rose is ready for a clean slate. He might've messed up his rookie year with the Miami Piranhas, but being traded to the Condors is the best way to put all that behind him. The Condors are rebuilding, too. New owner. New coach. New players. New rules. One rule hasn't changed: don't marry your ex-best friend in Vegas.

What if life as we know it was just a game? What if instead of traditional schools, children learned by participating in a virtual reality simulation, one that allowed them to experience "life" from birth to death—multiple times? What if one player, on his final play, could change the world forever?

Hunter: I have a secret. One that will change everything. I made a deal, one I won't back out of. Only time has run out, and they will all know soon enough. Jace: She forgave me…but it’s not as simple as “I’m sorry.” I’m used to saying those words, and all is forgiven. But this is Mila Hart… nothing's ever gonna be easy with her. And I wouldn’t have it any other way. Roman: I made a mess of my life before she came back, and it follows me still. Only now, I’m not alone in fighting my demons, and I have something worth fighting for.

I entered the game. He already chose me. If I go into that basement, I'll be prey. That's the game: twenty men hunting five women. Whoever catches me will claim me—right there on the floor—and I'll be his for thirty days and nights. No refusals. No limits. As a successful, focused professional, I have no business indulging in this dark fantasy. But I can’t resist. Not when he might be there. The man who fuels my most forbidden obsession.