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One of the most desolate stretches of railroad in the West. Travelling along it is a crowded troop train, bound for the cholera-stricken garrison at Fort Humboldt. On board are the Governor of Nevada, the daughter of the fort’s commander and a US marshal escorting a notorious outlaw. Between them and safety are the hostile Paiute Indians – and a man who will stop at nothing, not even murder…

2079 hat sich die Welt gewandelt, mächtige Konzerne regieren die Welt. Die Zentralregierung der fünfzehn Megacitys, kämpft gegen Gewalt, Armut und Straßengangs. Die Konzerne unterhalten ihre eigenen Soldaten, zur Sicherung ihres Eigentums und zur Wahrung ihrer Interessen. Die Erde droht zu sterben und die Menschheit steht vor einem Scheideweg. Major Dener, ein Ex-Ranger arbeitet für die Wayaki Industries, einem Global Player. Sein Team erhält den Auftrag einen ehemaligen Wissenschaftler der Wayaki zu finden und zur Firma zurückzubringen.

Harriet Vanger desapareció hace treinta y seis años en una isla sueca propiedad de su poderosa familia. A pesar del despliegue policial, no se encontró ni rastro de la muchacha. ¿Se escapó? ¿Fue secuestrada? ¿Asesinada? El caso está cerrado y los detalles olvidados. Pero su tío Henrik Vanger, un empresario retirado, vive obsesionado con resolver el misterio antes de morir. En las paredes de su estudio cuelgan cuarenta y tres flores secas y enmarcadas.

Terrorists-for-hire have created a weapon that can induce earthquakes and cause dormant volcanoes to erupt. One terrifying side effect of the weapon is that prior to the devastation, the vibrations drive ordinary people to suicide and violence. A wave of madness begins sweeping the country beginning with a mass shooting in Congress. Joe Ledger and his team go on a wild hunt to stop the terrorists and uncover the global superpower secretly funding them. At every step the stakes increase as it becomes clear that the endgame of this campaign of terror is igniting the Yellowstone caldera.

Best-selling, award-winning, author Kim Stanley Robinson continues his groundbreaking trilogy of eco-thrillers - and propels us deeper into the awesome whirlwind of climatic change. Set in our nation's capital, here is a chillingly realistic tale of people caught in the collision of science, technology, and the consequences of global warming - which could trigger another phenomenon: abrupt climate change, resulting in temperatures.

Das Britische Museum in London wird von einer gewaltigen Explosion erschüttert. Auslöser für die Detonation war offensichtlich eine mysteriöse Lichtkugel aus reiner Antimaterie!

A freelance terrorist uses the latest generation of robot dogs to deliver WMDs into cities across America. Sophisticated military weapons systems turn on their human masters. A technological apocalypse is coming, and we may be too late to stop it. Joe Ledger and a newly rebuilt Department of Military Sciences square off against this new and terrible threat.

The H.M.S. Unseen is one of the most efficient, lethal submarines ever built. But suddenly, on a training mission off the English coast, it vanishes, baffling military intelligence on both sides of the Atlantic, including National Security Adviser Admiral Arnold Morgan. A missing weapon is...

Fasten your seat belts–the white-knuckle thrills at Utopia, the world’s most fantastic theme park, escalate to nightmare proportions in this intricately imagined techno-thriller by New York Times bestselling author Lincoln Child. Rising out of the stony canyons of Nevada, Utopia is a world...

Bruised, stoned, and still adjusting to her latest wear implants, apprentice enforcer Taya Mint plunges into the darkest depths of Megastructure Seven Zero Three, challenging everything she thought she knew about life within the walls she has never stepped beyond. With only one assignment left to earn her full license, Taya finally stands a chance to rebuild a life wounded by grief. But she quickly discovers that the kidnapping she's investigating is just one piece of a puzzle—one that leads to grisly death and the greedy heart of power within the structure.

It's 2029, and America’s space program, once a beacon of hope for the future, is now a guttering candle. Even as Roscosmos thrives and China’s manned space program reaches new heights, NASA prepares to send the last symbol of a once-mighty dream of exploration —the International Space Station —tumbling to its fiery death.

Was bleibt von dir, wenn du keinen eigenen Willen mehr besitzt? Nachdem Lennox bei einem Autounfall nicht nur seinen rechten Arm, sondern auch seine Schwester verliert, flüchtet er sich in die digitale Welt, um seine Sorgen zu vergessen. Sein neuer, technisch nachgerüsteter Arm hilft ihm dabei, sich überall reinzuhacken und jede Menge Unsinn anzustellen. Doch einem Gerücht kann Lennox nicht entfliehen: In seiner Stadt verschwinden immer mehr Menschen spurlos.

Carolin Alberts, die Gründerin des Hamburger Start-ups Harmony, nutzt ihre gesteigerte geistige Leistungsfähigkeit, um ihr Unternehmen innerhalb weniger Monate in einen internationalen Konzern zu verwandeln. Dabei schreckt sie nicht davor zurück, die Übernahme ihres größten Konkurrenten Kruither & Voch zu planen. Moralische Bedenken wirft Carolin über Bord, nur persönlicher Ehrgeiz und Erfolg zählen. Ihr Geschäftspartner Noah Gunnason leidet unterdessen nach der Einnahme des Medikaments Sleepless an Nebenwirkungen.

En 1942, Larence Pritchard Waterhouse, genio matemático y joven capitán de la Marina estadounidense, es asignado a colaborar con Bobby Shaftoe en una misión secreta que consiste en descifrar los códigos de las potencias del Eje. De este modo se pretende evitar que los nazis perciban que la Inteligencia aliada ha descubierto el sistema de cifrado de su mítico código Enigma. Sesenta años más tarde, Randy Waterhouse, brillante «criptohacker», proyecta la creación en el Sureste asiático de un paraíso de datos y el mayor exponente de la libertad informática: la Cripta.

The witnesses are legion, scattered across the world and dotted through history, people who looked up and saw something impossible lighting up the night sky. What those objects were, where they came from, and who - or what - might be inside them is the subject of fierce debate and equally fierce mockery, so that most who glimpsed them came to wish they hadn't. Most, but not everyone.

It's been 20 years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global microdemocracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the Supermajority is in tight contention, and everything's on the line.

Ein NSA-Analyst findet in den Archiven seiner Behörde technische Aufzeichnungen des Wissenschaftlers Nikola Tesla. Schnell erkennen skrupellose Politiker die enormen Möglichkeiten dieser Entdeckung. Sie bereiten eine Mission vor, die das Potenzial hat, die Weltwirtschaft aus den Angeln zu heben. Als dann eines Tages ein Luftbeben, eine enorme Vibration, das Bankenviertel in New York City erschüttert, glaubt die Öffentlichkeit zuerst an einen neuen Terroranschlag. In Wahrheit werden ungeheure Goldmengen aus der Federal Reserve Bank geraubt.

New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton delivers another action-packed techo-thriller in State of Fear. When a group of eco-terrorists engage in a global conspiracy to generate weather-related natural disasters, its up to environmental lawyer Peter Evans and his team to uncover the...

On opening day of the new baseball season a small model-kit airplane flies down from the stands and buzzes the mound, where a decorated veteran pilot is about to throw out the first ball. The toy plane is the exact replica of the one flown by the war hero. Everyone laughs, thinking it's a prank or a publicity stunt. Until it explodes, killing dozens. Seconds later a swarm of killer drones descend upon the picnicked crowd, each one carrying a powerful bomb. All across the country artificial intelligence drive systems in cars, commuter trains and even fighter planes go out of control.

From Michael Crichton, the #1 bestselling author of Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain, comes an astounding, eye-opening look at the world of genetics: Next. Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and...