Ergebnis für "the squad" in Literatur & Belletristik

Als Kai, einer der besten Gamer der Welt, in das Cyber Squad aufgenommen wird, glaubt er zunächst, seinen Traumjob ergattert zu haben. Spiele testen und dafür fürstlich belohnt werden, was kann es Besseres geben? Doch schon bald stellt er fest, dass das ein Irrtum war, der ihn sein Leben kosten könnte. Bekleidet mit einem Hightech-Anzug, der seinen Körper und sein Gehirn schützen soll, dringen Kai und sein Team in die gefährlichsten und aufregendsten virtuellen Welten ein, um sie von allem zu säubern, was für normale Spieler schädlich sein könnte.

Kai hat die Begegnung mit der Killer-KI, die sich selbst "Der Gott in der Maschine" nennt, im Dark Net nur knapp überlebt. Doch er hat keine Zeit, um sich zu erholen. Er wird auf Level Zwei befördert, und hat nun Zugang zu allem, was Helltek zu bieten hat. Das Leben auf dem Campus könnte perfekt sein, wäre da nicht die Tatsache, dass der Cyber Squad einer der riskantesten Jobs der Welt ist. Die mörderischen KI ist längst nicht Kais einziges Problem. Auch die Hacker, die TSOTA angegriffen haben, planen schon bald wieder zuzuschlagen, und ein Verräter innerhalb des Cyber Squad hilft ihnen.

Als Kai, einer der besten Gamer der Welt, in das Cyber Squad aufgenommen wird, glaubt er zunächst, seinen Traumjob ergattert zu haben. Spiele testen und dafür fürstlich belohnt werden, was kann es Besseres geben? Doch schon bald stellt er fest, dass das ein Irrtum war, der ihn sein Leben kosten könnte.

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Kai thought he had the best job in the world. Playing VR games for a living. Not if the games are trying to kill you. The Net is the last great frontier, a wilderness of data filled with mysteries beyond imagination. Bugs, a harmless annoyance in earlier decades, have become a deadly menace in times when gamers connect their brains directly to VR.

Nichts ist so, wie es scheint...Nach dem Hackerangriff, bei dem Kai und sein gesamtes Team fast ums Leben gekommen wären, ist jeder bei Helltek nervös. Schlimmer noch, alle Beweise deuten darauf hin, dass der Saboteur ein Mitarbeiter des Unternehmens ist. Kai fürchtet nicht nur um seine Sicherheit sondern auch um die seiner Freunde. Der Verdacht, dass jemand, der ihm nahe steht, dafür verantwortlich sein könnte, ist beunruhigend. Und das ist nur eines von Kais Problemen.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Set in the aftermath of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, this action-packed prequel to the hotly anticipated videogame Battlefront II introduces the Empire’s elite force: Inferno Squad. After the humiliating theft of the Death Star plans and the destruction of the...

We survived the invasion and beat the aliens. But they left something behind… Killing monsters is what I do. Like my father before me, I fight side by side with my twin brother and my squad to protect our people. Since the invasion, life is dangerous. I know how short it can be, so I live it to the fullest. I work hard on Hunter Squad, I party harder, I love a joke and a good time, and I never get tangled up in relationships. I watched my father’s grief at losing his brother. I almost lost my own twin. I’ll never let myself get in too deep.

Samantha Song has always dreamed of having her own by-line in a high-society magazine. But the death of her father and the constant struggle to help her mum make ends meet make it feel like a distant fantasy. Instead, she works at a drab PR firm and lives vicariously through her socialite co-worker Anya Chen. Then she meets Timothy Kingston: the disillusioned son of one of Singapore's elite families, and Sam's one chance at infiltrating the world to which she so desperately wants to belong. To Sam's surprise, Tim and Anya both agree to help her make a name for herself.

Jennifer Egan's spellbinding audiobook circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an ageing former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the listener does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples and Africa.

Welcome to Andover, where superpowers are common, but internships are complicated. Just ask high school nobody, Jessica Tran. Despite her heroic lineage, Jess is resigned to a life without superpowers and is merely looking to beef-up her college applications when she stumbles upon the perfect (paid!) internship only it turns out to be for the town's most heinous supervillain.

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Goon Squad, Volume 2: Without Sin is composed of "A Star in Strange Ways", "Holy Fool", "Dead Man Tells Tale", "A Brief History of the Goon Squad", "Tale of Terror", and "Pomona Island", as well as an introduction read by the author.

Goon Squad is set in a version of modern-day Manchester. Its biggest divergence from the real city is that it - along with most other large urban centers - has a team of superheroes to protect it against unusual threats with which the conventional forces of law and order would have problems.

Jake Adlar's goals in life were simple—possibly nonexistent. All he wanted was to fly a desk. Hence, he'd joined the Space Force, the service with the most extensive array of Earth-side clerical specialties. All he needed to make him happy was an office, a computer, his favorite coffee mug, and a never-ending pile of requisitions.

Everyone enjoys peace and tranquility, and Victor Bayne is no exception. He goes to great lengths to maintain a harmonious home with his partner, Jacob. Although the cannery is huge, it's grown difficult to avoid the elephant in the room...the elephant with the letters FPMP scrawled on its hide. Once Jacob surrendered his PsyCop badge, he infiltrated the Federal Psychic Monitoring Program. In his typical restrained fashion, he hasn't been sharing much about what he actually does behind its guarded doors.

Terry hat ihr Herz an Dragon verloren, den Anführer des Black Squad MC. Er leitet den Club mit harter Hand – nur bei ihr zeigt er seine sanfte Seite. Mit ihr zusammen erlebt er die Magie der Liebe und genießt jede freie Minute mit Terry. Doch die Zukunft seines Clubs ist gefährdet. An allen Fronten wird gegen die Black Squads gefeuert. Erst zerstört jemand die Boutique seiner Schwester, dann sorgen Probleme im Süden dafür, dass er sich auf den Weg machen muss, um ein paar Dinge zu klären.

In Der Bericht des Squad Leaders Kingsley von Christoph Elias Wild tauchen wir ein in eine düstere und mysteriöse Welt. Als er und sein Team einen Einsatz durchführen, stoßen sie auf eine Reihe von unheimlichen und unerklärlichen Phänomenen, die sie an den Rand des Wahnsinns treiben. Diese Geschichte ist eine Mischung aus Spannung, Horror und psychologischem Drama, die den Leser bis zur letzten Seite fesselt.

Humanity is rebuilding after a devastating invasion. But the growing towns all have walls to protect them from the monsters. Created in alien labs, the monsters hide in the swamps, rivers, and forests—breeding, mutating. Every now and then, they crawl out of the shadows. That’s where I come in. I’m Jameson Steele, the leader of Hunter Squad—the toughest group of soldiers in New Sydney. It’s our job to keep people safe and secure.

I was born to protect. I’m a Connors, a soldier like my father before me, and I’m the medic for Hunter Squad. Every time we go out to hunt the mutated monsters the aliens left behind, I’m there to treat anyone who gets hurt. But sometimes, I can’t always save everyone, and that haunts me. When Hunter Squad is called out to rescue two missing boys, I’ll do anything to bring them home alive. Even work with our brand-new recruit, Jessica Ramos.