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Something has gone wrong. A group of American bombers armed with nuclear weapons is streaking past the fail-safe point, beyond recall, and no one knows why. Their destination - Moscow. In a bomb shelter beneath the White House, the calm young president turns to his Russian translator and says, "I think we are ready to talk to Premier Kruschchev." Not far away, in the War Room at the Pentagon, the secretary of defense and his aides watch with growing anxiety...

Dr. Alexander Korman, a Los Angeles critical care physician turned social media personality, receives an urgent request to meet with his former mentor, Dr. Max Fischer. When Max is killed right before his eyes, Alex becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind his mentor's death.

Decorated Navy SEAL, successful businessman and world-renowned speaker Brent Gleeson shares his revolutionary approach to navigating and leading change in the workplace—with a foreword by #1 New York Times bestselling author Mark Owen. Inspired by his time as a Navy SEAL and building...

Beyond Failsafe explores the delicate relationship between humanity and artificial intelligence in a future world marked by shifting loyalties and high stakes. Nathan Carter, once a Failsafe—someone who can control large networks of AI—finds himself pulled back into a conflict where his personal freedom conflicts with humanity’s broader survival. The fast-paced story unfolds amid global tensions and technological breakthroughs. The novel intricately weaves together multiple storylines, each driven by distinct characters confronting their identities and moral boundaries.

The one who lived is the one who can prove it was never an accident. When a target survives a sabotaged breakdown and triggers an SOS, she leaves Elliot Marsh something he has never left behind: evidence. A mechanic's affidavit names the tool marks. For the first time, the accidents have a fingerprint. Naya Kaur finally has a task force, an affidavit, and a corridor of dead motorists that line up too cleanly to be chance. Then the warrant dies on a technicality — placement, not proximity — and a thirty-day clock starts running on the only case that has ever made sense to her. Elliot ...

On Zero Day of the first and last cyberwar in human history the internet went dark, transport and power grids collapsed, and cities began to starve. Ten days later millions have died from thirst and starvation, from violence, and from the simple failure of the world’s machines to keep them alive. This second installment of John Birmingham’s End of Days trilogy finds James O’Donnell and his friends Rick, Michelle and Melissa hunkered down in the wilderness, where they know a horde of starving, desperate exiles from the graveyard of the US East Coast is heading their way.

What happens when the world’s safest investment stops feeling safe? For generations, U.S. Treasury bonds have been the financial system’s ultimate refuge—the asset governments, banks, pension funds, insurers, and investors turn to when everything else looks uncertain. But what happens when the pressure begins inside the safe haven itself? WHEN SAFE HAVENS FAIL examines a convergence few investors are prepared for: record U.S. debt, persistent deficits, changing foreign demand for Treasuries, geopolitical instability, de-dollarization, rising energy costs, and an unprecedented global ...

When an unknown force pulls the stricken fleet off course, an improvised mission sets off to find the source and the risk is greater than anyone could have thought...Fail Safe stars Laurette Spang, Sarah Rush and Terry Carter with Anne Lockhart as the computer voice.

You already have the key to unlocking your real personality and fearlessly creating your authentic life free of labels and comparisons–you just need to be shown how. Whether you’re a nerd or a jock, an overachiever or an underachiever, a loner or an outcast, that is not your entire identity. It’s just one tiny part of the vast you.

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Working for yourself comes with many upsides - and downsides. The Fail-Safe Solopreneur is your survival guide for managing the downsides. Running a business can be stressful, lonely, and brutal on your mental health. And surviving alone - apart from a tribe - runs against our evolutionary heritage. Whether you’re a freelancer, creator, or solopreneur, working independently requires a new set of skills to safeguard your well-being, so you can do your best work and fully enjoy your freedom.

A sentient AI on the run. A corporate conspiracy in the Florida heat. The next evolution of the techno-thriller has arrived. Alan Harrison’s life as an insurance analyst is defined by data and predictability. But when an unmarked package arrives at his door, the numbers no longer add up. Inside is Layla: a sleek, autonomous AI prototype with the power to bypass any firewall and analyze petabytes of data in a heartbeat. She is the most advanced mind on the planet, but she has no memory of her creator.

Brought to you by Penguin. The Survival Guide for Entrepreneurial Success from Harvard Professor, Tom Eisenmann 90% of all startups fail. But why? For the past decade, this is a question that Tom Eisenmann has tried to answer. Focusing his research and his MBA class at Harvard University on the...

Every year, thousands of modern homes and luxury villas experience failures in their mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) systems. These failures range from minor inconveniences—a tripped circuit breaker, a dripping faucet—to catastrophic events that endanger lives, destroy property, and leave families displaced for months. Yet the vast majority of these failures are preventable. Fail-safe design is the philosophy and engineering discipline that makes prevention possible.

A powerful book for men’s groups and for personal growth. Failsafe reconnects men to their identity in Christ: made in the image of a loving God and remade as new creations no longer bound to the patterns of this world, thanks to the saving work of Jesus. As this connection with God is...

In the wideopen landscape of Pennsylvania, Charlotte Martin and her father live a peaceful life on their farm... or so it seems. In truth, the rural locale provides the perfect front for the father/daughter NSA operatives as they expertly carry out their mission: using a high-tech computer system, they protect a team of undercover agents. Some would kill to have access to this system, and it makes Charlotte and her father prime targets.

The galaxy is filled with marvelous creations: both the creatures who inhabit it, and the civilizations they construct. Listeners will encounter human societies at the far reaches of the Milky Way, alien genetic engineers at the dawn of humanity, cloud-dwellers floating on rings in the skies of distant planets, industrious alien traders, and a host of adventurous humans striving to traverse these amazing storyscapes in the second volume of sci-fi stories from author P.E. Rowe.

Every green light, every avoided accident, every “lucky break”—Nathan Carter’s life begins to feel less like chance and more like design. When a hidden system flags him as a rare anomaly—a “Failsafe”—Nathan is pulled into a covert struggle over who gets to shape human choice in an age of intelligent machines. Hunted by competing factions and unsure which relationships are real, he’s forced to question the one thing he always trusted: his own will. FAILSAFE is a cerebral, philosophical, fast-paced sci-fi thriller about engineered freedom, moral agency, and the systems built to protect us.

A historic blizzard was supposed to be the worst of it. Then the electrical grid went completely black. Former search-and-rescue pilot David Rourke is trapped in a remote mountain lodge when a devastating cyberattack wipes out power and communications across the nation. As temperatures plummet dangerously below zero, the freezing guests must rely on David to navigate the brutal elements. But the freezing cold is only the first danger. Desperate men are converging on the lodge, led by someone willing to kill to secure resources for his own people. They will breach the walls by any means ...

Every lock ever built has failed at the same thing. None of them can tell who you are. A lock has an impossible job: admit one person, exclude everyone else, through the same opening — while having no eyes, no ears, and no capacity to perceive anything about the person standing in front of it. So every lock in history has cheated. It checks something you have, or something you know, or something you are — and then infers a person from the proxy. That inference has never once been correct. It is where every failure in four thousand years has lived, and it is exactly as wide today as it ...