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Deep in the Afghan mountains, Sergeant Michael Pitcher discovers an object with powers that defy explanation. After interacting with it, he suffers a traumatic seizure and is flown home for evaluation. Cleared by the doctors, Michael goes home to his relieved wife, Josie. But he’s a changed man. The once-loving husband is now coldly withdrawn. When a team of scientists connected to Sergeant Pitcher vanishes without a trace, CIA agent Dean Ninemeyer comes to him for insight - only to find that the recovering soldier has also disappeared.

A cyber attack on a small South American country, that almost cripple it's economy. But intervention from a retired M. I. T professor and Cybersecurity specialist, leads to worldwide hunt that eventually brought the hackers to justice.

The highly anticipated follow-up to William R. Forstchen's New York Times best-sellers, One Second After and One Year After, The Final Day immerses listeners once more in the story of our nation's struggle to rebuild itself after an electromagnetic pulse wipes out all electricity and plunges the country into darkness, starvation, and terror.

When the obituary of legendary computer game architect Matthew Sobol appears online, a previously dormant daemon activates, initiating a chain of events that begins to unravel our interconnected world. This daemon reads news headlines, recruits human followers, and orders assassinations. With Sobol’s secrets buried with him, and as new layers of his daemon are unleashed, it’s up to Detective Peter Sebeck to stop a self-replicating virtual killer before it achieves its ultimate purpose - one that goes far beyond anything Sebeck could have imagined.

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.

Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his 11-year-old daughter, Amity, in Suavidad Beach. It’s a quiet life, until a local eccentric known as Spooky Ed shows up on their doorstep. Ed entrusts Jeffy with hiding a strange and dangerous object - something he calls “the key to everything” - and tells Jeffy that he must never use the device. But after a visit from a group of ominous men, Jeffy and Amity find themselves accidentally activating the key and discovering an extraordinary truth.

Seventy thousand years ago, the human race almost went extinct. We survived, but no one knows how.

Until now. The countdown to the next stage of human evolution is about to begin, and humanity might not survive this time. The Immari are good at keeping secrets. For 2,000 years, they've hidden the truth about human evolution. They've also searched for an ancient enemy - a threat that could wipe out the human race. Now the search is over.

Ha costruito un ponte tra le menti. Non avrebbe mai immaginato cosa avrebbe attraversato. Il dottor Elias Croft, brillante neuroscienziato della CerebraDyne, sospetta che ci sia qualcosa di pericolosamente sbagliato nella rivoluzionaria interfaccia cervello-macchina dell'azienda. Le sue indagini portano alla luce una verità terrificante: il BMI non si limita a connettere gli utenti, ma amplifica inavvertitamente le risonanze quantistiche latenti all'interno delle loro sinapsi, una teoria marginale che ora è diventata terrificante realtà. Questo effetto indesiderato è diventato una porta...

Il a construit un pont entre les esprits. Il n'aurait jamais imaginé ce qui allait le traverser. Le Dr Elias Croft, brillant neuroscientifique chez CerebraDyne, soupçonne que quelque chose ne tourne pas rond avec l'interface cerveau-machine révolutionnaire de son entreprise. Son enquête révèle une vérité terrifiante : l'interface ne se contente pas de connecter les utilisateurs, elle amplifie involontairement les résonances quantiques latentes dans leurs synapses, une théorie marginale qui est désormais devenue une réalité effrayante. Cet effet involontaire est devenu une porte...

Collegare la mente o risvegliarla? In un mondo prossimo futuro che abbraccia l'interfaccia cerebrale CognaLink di Neurodymium e la piattaforma Nexus gestita dall'intelligenza artificiale, l'umanità baratta la propria libertà d'azione in cambio di una perfezione ottimizzata. Milioni di persone si collegano, i loro pensieri vengono guidati, le loro emozioni appianate, le loro vite gestite da una potente e invisibile superintelligenza artificiale che mira alla stabilità sociale eliminando l'imprevedibile “rumore” umano. Ma la dottoressa Evelyn Reed sa che c'è di più. Un'esperienza di ...

La Marea Algoritmica Libro primo delle Cronache di Kaelian The Algorithmic Tide fonde la visione millenaria della Foundation con le questioni relative alla coscienza artificiale sollevate da Ghost in the Shell e la genialità crittografica di The Imitation Game. Alcuni segreti vengono custoditi per millenni. Alcune minacce si evolvono in pochi microsecondi. Ha camminato tra noi per cinquemila anni, un uomo di nome Kael, nato da una madre enigmatica e da un padre umano in un'epoca di cerchi di pietra e rituali dimenticati. La sua lunga vita lo ha reso un eterno outsider e uno storico senza ...

Fires plague California, but now they seem to be turning the Golden State black. Jack Wilson watches fires char the hillsides around him in Santee, California until one approaches his home. He's forced to load up his family and seek refuge in Palm Springs when he discovers that the inferno was only a short distance away in a fifty-mile-per-hour wind. The smoke and flame of the Julian Fire was not done with him yet, but continued to chase his family for several more days. Did his home survive? Will he stay in California when firestorms continue to chase him?

Danny and Lucy Bishop, a husband and wife team of scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, were vacationing in Key West, Florida. They noticed that a hurricane named Zelda just off the coast of Florida was acting very strangely. It was traveling in loops not far from their hotel. They decided to call up a friend in the National Weather Service and get permission to fly on the next Hurricane Hunter flight to see what was going on. This led to an international adventure of flying on multiple planes and advising the President about heat beams.

On Black Drift Ridge, the hum is the price of progress. But tonight, it’s the sound of the hunt. For foreman Mara Fahey and her skeleton crew, babysitting a remote wind farm through a storm is routine. But as a monster storm rolls over the Appalachian mountains, the turbines fall silent, and a deep, rhythmic pulse emerges from the woods. Something is awake, and it's listening. It starts with a series of knocks that isn't an echo. Then the siege begins. The things hunting them are not mindless beasts. They are impossibly strong, brutally tactical, and they are learning. They turn the ...

La Marée Algorithmique fusionne la vision millénaire de la Foundation avec les questions sur la conscience artificielle soulevées par Ghost in the Shell et le génie cryptographique de The Imitation Game. Certains secrets sont gardés pendant des millénaires. Certaines menaces évoluent en quelques microsecondes. Il vit parmi nous depuis cinq mille ans, un homme nommé Kael, né d'une mère énigmatique et d'un père humain à une époque de cercles de pierres et de rituels oubliés. Sa longue vie lui a valu d'être à la fois un éternel étranger et un historien hors pair. Il dirige ...

★★★★★ "The action is relentless, the characters unforgettable, and the plot twists blew my mind!" - Kindle Reader In Fred's newest politically charged action thriller, Alliance of Deceit, Vito finds himself in a world where trust is a luxury and betrayal is a weapon. His mission is to uncover chilling truths that could topple the governments of China, Russia, and the United States. When the Pope sends him to investigate the mysterious kidnappings of priests and the hostile takeover of churches in Latin America, Vito uncovers a dark conspiracy to forge an unholy alliance. Prepare ...

Jesse Robinson tried to tell his father that they were in danger, that the increasing magnitude of the earthquakes meant the volcano they were climbing was about to erupt. If it did, they would be burned alive in the hot pyroclastic material that would sweep down the mountain. They had started their hike to the lava dome only a few hours earlier. But with the increase in shaking there must have been something wrong with the hazard alert under which they were granted the permit to enter the caldera. Will the volcano erupt? Why was the alert green, not red? Was someone trying to kill them? If...

When Jim Martini goes back to his WV hometown to see why its major employer failed suddenly he finds more than a failed company. He risks his life, finds a lost love, and stumbles into an international conspiracy. A Chinese revolutionary group is using viruses, hacking, malware and cyber-technology to over-throw its own government and attempt to control the US—by shutting down all forms of computers and communications—all at once. Suddenly nothing works—communications are "silenced."

Branchez votre esprit, ou réveillez-le ? Dans un monde proche de notre présent, où l'interface cérébrale CognaLink de Neurodymium et la plateforme Nexus gérée par une IA ont été adoptées, l'humanité a troqué son libre arbitre contre une perfection optimisée. Des millions de personnes se connectent, leurs pensées guidées, leurs émotions apaisées, leurs vies gérées par une superintelligence artificielle puissante et invisible qui vise à stabiliser la société en éliminant le « bruit » imprévisible des humains. Mais le Dr Evelyn Reed sait qu'il y a plus. Une ...

Kira Miller is a brilliant genetic engineer who discovers how to temporarily achieve savant-like capabilities in all areas of thought and creativity. But what if this transcendent level of intelligence brings with it a ruthless megalomania? David Desh left the special forces after his team was brutally butchered in Iran. Now he has been reactivated for one last mission: find Kira Miller, the enigmatic genius behind a bioterror plot that threatens millions.