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Ahead, not too many years from now, everyone has been linked to a network of government-mandated brain implants. The Interface has become a way of life, connecting all people to limitless information, nonstop personal messaging, and instantaneous news flashes. Gone are the days of cell phones and laptops—even loneliness itself is obsolete.

DCS Kat Frank knows all about loss. A widowed single mother, Kat is a cop who trusts her instincts. Picked to lead a pilot programme that has her paired with AIDE (Artificial Intelligence Detective Entity) Lock, Kat's instincts come up against Lock's logic. But when the two missing person's cold cases they are reviewing suddenly become active, Lock is the only one who can help Kat when the case gets personal. AI versus human experience. Logic versus instinct. With lives on the line can the pair work together before someone else becomes another statistic?

Britain. The near-future. A right-wing government believes it has the answer to society’s ills—the Sanctity of Marriage Act, which actively encourages marriage as the norm, punishing those who choose to remain single. But four couples are about to discover just how impossible relationships can be when the government is monitoring every aspect of our personal lives, monitoring every word, every minor disagreement...and will use every tool in its arsenal to ensure everyone will love, honour and obey.

The rebels against the Happiness-Program have finally found a place to hide: an abandoned resort in Iceland, complete with a luxury hotel. Everything would be perfect here, if not for their memories haunting them each in different ways.

Stirred from the ashes of Tesla's grand experiments in Colorado and the Russian Tunguska event, Sword of a Thousand Suns is the story of a global fight at CERN over the next great discovery of nature's laws that, like Shiva's Sword, could be a godly power or planet destroyer.

Software developer turned storyteller Kerry Nietz brings artificial wonders to life. Digital Dreams and Other Distractions is essential Nietz—nine tantalizing tales of synthetic futures, unfolding across a background of stars.

Eine weltbekannte Tropenmedizinerin ringt mit einer unbekannten Krankheit um ihr Leben. In München wird eine junge Frau entführt. Ein Rettungssanitäter landet inmitten einer nationalen Katastrophe. In Saarbrücken versucht ein junger Ermittler hinter das Geheimnis zweier unbekannter Leichen zu kommen. Niemand weiß, dass diese vier Schicksale in unmittelbarem Zusammenhang stehen.

Der NINK - ursprünglich in der Militärforschung entwickelt - sollte ein Auslöschen traumatischer Erlebnisse ermöglichen. Doch seit seiner Markteinführung gilt das Chip-Implantat als Wunderwerk der Digitalisierung, das als Speicher und persönlicher Assistent auch bald nicht mehr aus dem Alltag wegzudenken ist. Als Journalistin Silvie Mankowitz erfährt, dass ihr Bruder zwei Menschen ermordet und sich danach in den Kopf geschossen haben soll, weiß sie, dass etwas nicht stimmt, und beginnt zu recherchieren.

Eric Richards was living as close to a normal life as one could hope for. With a successful excavation business, Sara, his gorgeous archaeologist wife, and twin five-year-old boys, Michael and David, life was good. That was, until he would be confronted with a decision to join in a fight that was not his own.

It’s March 2034, six months after D.C. police detective Jen Lu and Chandler, her sentient bio-computer and wannabe tough guy implanted in her brain, cracked the mystery of Eden. The climate crisis is hitting harder than ever: a mega-hurricane has devastated the eco-system and waves of refugees pour into Washington, D.C. Environmental lawyer and media darling Patty Garcia dies in a bizarre accident on a golf course. Of the seven billion people on the planet, only Jen thinks she was murdered.

2079 hat sich die Welt gewandelt, mächtige Konzerne kontrollieren das Geschehen. Die Zentralregierung der fünfzehn Megacitys kämpft gegen Gewalt, Armut und Straßengangs. Die Erde droht zu sterben und die Menschheit steht vor einem Scheideweg. Major Dener steht im Dienst der Wayaki Industries, einem Global Player. Sein Team erhält den Auftrag, einen ehemaligen Wissenschaftler der Wayaki zu finden und ihn anschließend zum Mars zu bringen.

From the central bank of El Salvador to a tantalum mine in Rwanda, the Acropolis Museum in Athens to the biggest freeport on the planet in Dubai, enter a world ruled by ones and zeroes and inhabited by people who don't believe in trust. Nathan Pike is one of those people. To some he's a digital Robin Hood. To others he's nothing but an amoral hacker. A codebreaking and encryption expert, he sells his skills to whoever can pay him what he wants or give him something he needs.

It starts in a laboratory. A man-made strain of flesh-eating virus. Created by a power-hungry cartel. Capable of turning victims into brain-dead carnivores. Smuggled aboard a cruise ship that's about to set sail . . .One by one, the passengers are exposed. A U.S. senator. A young couple. An undercover agent. A beautiful assassin. Some will be infected. Others will survive. But no one will be spared if the outbreak isn't contained and the dead outnumber the living.

Eric Swan, the spy who can never die, is on the hunt. He’s chasing down the most destructive hacker of all time. This shadowy figure, known only as Ceti, is laying the groundwork for toppling the world’s economy.

Michael North is the man you call when there's nothing left to lose. He executes every mission with determination, skill and a certain amount of flair. There's just one problem: the bullet lodged in his brain. If it moves, he will die–and so will the mission. Now North's been sent to infiltrate a doomsday cult on a remote island off the coast of Scotland to stop the terrorist attack its leader is planning on the mainland. Together with teen hacker FangFang, North must face down the forces of evil on behalf of his country.

Jack Sladen, tech billionaire and local hero, is coming back to his roots. Cameron Silvera, busy fighting a new cybercrime threat, doesn’t trust him. Is he out to save the world, or to destroy it?

Dr. Mandy Mirabelle is poised to inherit her family’s ancestral mental institution when a debilitating phobia of its eerie old wing puts her birthright at risk. Something wicked befell her there seven years ago, and the trauma inflicted her with amnesia. Only her boyfriend Gordon was a witness to what happened, but he’s a psychotic inpatient at her hospital now, and he’s lost all contact with reality.

Von einem USA Today Bestsellerautor: Michael ist Professor für Teilchenphysik und hat eine Möglichkeit entdeckt, den Schleier von Zeit und Raum zu durchdringen. Allerdings öffnet er damit unwissentlich die Büchse der Pandora. Ist es möglich, etwas rückgängig zu machen, das man selbst in der Zukunft getan hat? Oder ist die Welt zu dem Chaos verdammt, das auf ihr entfesselt wurde?

A shadowy group of biohackers called the Firemen threaten to worsen the COVID pandemic by releasing an even more lethal version of the pathogen. But what drives the Firemen, and how do their motivations relate to the wealth of the Roman Empire and to the third basic human instinct? The answers may lie with prediction scientist Dan Clifford. Unemployed and struggling with two years of pandemic isolation, he is rebuilding both his career and personal life.

Margarita had it all. Wealth, beauty, status, a loving husband. Or so she thought. In one fateful evening, several days after her husband’s accident, she loses everything as her life is plunged into utter darkness. Taken hostage in her London townhouse by a ruthless gang appearing out of nowhere, Margarita is tortured and asked to divulge the location of her extraordinarily rare pink diamond.