Technothrillers

'Earthquake country,' said the Professor. 'San Francisco is geologically and seismologically a city that waits to die. Los Angeles is ringed by earthquake centres – seven massive quakes so far. We have no idea where the next, the monster, will hit…' …until a criminal fanatic kidnaps a nuclear scientist and builds his own atomic bombs. If exploded on California's fault lines they could trigger off the mightiest earthquake of them all – killing half its population and dumping the entire city of San Francisco into the sea.

Caesar, an undercover operative, enters Carmichael with the briefest of orders from his boss and a countdown on his phone. What will happen when the clock strikes zero? Deputy Amelia Miller is dispatched from a nearby city, and a series of events keeps her around much longer than she'd expected. In the middle of the night, something shifts, and the whole town disappears off the face of the Earth. Who caused the shift, and what lies beyond the veil of their settlement?

Just a year ago, Katrina Berg was at the pinnacle of her career. She was a rising star in the AI chatbot start-up everyone was talking about, married with an adoring husband, and had more money than she knew how to spend. Then her world combusted. Her hus­band, Jason, was killed in a fiery car crash. Her CEO was indicted and, as the company’s legal counsel, Katrina faces tough questions as the Feds take over and lock her out of her office. The final blow is the passing of her beloved grandmother.

A junior intelligence officer in the Martian Combined Fleet, Radrick Siegn supplements his meager pay by smuggling contraband from Saturn to Mars. Someday, he’ll buy his own ship and escape the Fleet forever. But his captain has other plans for him. A tanker pilot has been murdered on Saturn Station. It’s up to Siegn to salvage the honor of the Fleet by finding the killer … before they kill again. The investigation plunges Siegn into the seedy underworld of Saturn Station, where he learns this was no ordinary killing.

Seven strangers wake up in a sealed compound with no idea how they got there. They are informed by a computer-generated voice that they must complete tasks in order to leave, and that failure to complete any of the tasks or breaking any of the rules results in a strike. The first two strikes induce extreme pain. The third strike is death. As they struggle to survive without turning on each other, they have no idea that their actions and choices could doom humanity. Or save it.

Cerberus Demeter Pharmaceuticals, a corrupt corporation, has plans to release a powerful drug named Rejuvinox on on the world's inhabitants. A cure-all drug that has cataclysmic side effects the company intends to cover up. The question becomes, can Damien Williams and friends stop Cerberus before it's too late?

Lucas Sinclair, a washed-up hacker, finds an encrypted channel, buried in routine network traffic, that is transferring enormous volumes of data to seemingly random locations. In his enclave, surrounded by aging clusters of tech, Lucas uses a suite of bespoke tools to trace down the origin.

Der Wissenschaftler für Nanotechnologie Patrick Griessner arbeitet an dem geheimen NAS-Programm der bemannten Raumfahrt. Er gerät in die Fänge einer skrupelosen russischen Geheimdienstorganisation und setzt dadurch das Leben seiner Frau und das seines Kindes auf`s Spiel.

Der neue »Millennium«-Band der schwedischen Bestsellerautorin Karin Smirnoff. Im Norden Schwedens geht die Ausbeutung von Land und Leuten weiter. Das Städtchen Gasskas wird zum Schauplatz eines internationalen Greenwashing-Skandals. Jeder scheint skrupellos gegen jeden zu kämpfen, und schon bald gibt es einen Toten: einen lokalen Bergbauunternehmer. Als kurz darauf auch ein engagierter Umweltschützer ermordet wird, wittert Mikael Blomkvist eine große Geschichte und stellt gefährliche Nachforschungen an.

Keira Miller, frisch von der FBI-Akademie, wird mit ihrem ersten Fall beauftragt. Ein brutaler Mord hat die Hauptstadt erschüttert, aber dank eines Videos, sitzt der Täter bereits in Haft. Die Sache scheint glasklar zu sein, doch die Agentin zweifelt an der Schuld des vermeintlichen Mörders. Ihre eigenen Ermittlungen führen die junge Frau schließlich immer tiefer in den Sumpf eines Hacker-Kollektives. Zusammen mit dem ehemaligen Black-Hat Steven Wong, macht sie sich auf, um den wahren Schuldigen zu fassen.