Résultats pour "Das System" dans Thrillers et romans à suspense

La première novella de la série SF déjà culte et multirécompensée de Martha Wells. " J'aurais pu faire un carnage dès l'instant où j'ai piraté mon module superviseur ; en tout cas, si je n'avais pas découvert un accès au bouquet de chaînes de divertissement relayées par les satellites de la compagnie. 35 000 heures plus tard, aucun meurtre à signaler, mais, à vue de nez, un peu moins de 35 000 heures de films, de séries, de lectures, de jeux et de musique consommés. Comme impitoyable machine à tuer, on peut difficilement faire pire. "

Longlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2021 ‘Excellent, lucid, intelligent and gripping’ – Scotsman ‘An utterly riveting read’ – Guardian, Thriller of the Month 6 December 1993. A drug dealer called Scrappy is shot and left for dead on her mother’s lawn in South Central...

"Seven narrators convincingly portray a dozen characters...By the surprise denouement, the listener is fully invested in their stories, and conflicted about a system that only occasionally metes out justice." -- AudioFile Magazine An electrifying, multi-voiced thriller tackling our criminal...

Longlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2021 ‘Excellent, lucid, intelligent and gripping’ – Scotsman ‘An utterly riveting read’ – Guardian, Thriller of the Month 6 December 1993. A drug dealer called Scrappy is shot and left for dead on her mother’s lawn in South Central...

A propulsive thriller starring Jack Rowan, Siena Kelly and Iain de Caestecker. All three series of this fast-paced thriller from award-winning writer Ben Lewis, performed by a stellar cast – it will have you gripped from the first episode. When Jake signs up to a personal training programme...

There is something nefarious going on in 1966 Monte Carlo. The extravagant casino owner Gerard Legrand has been charged with human trafficking. But coincidentally, all the evidence is destroyed. Unable to accept the ruling, two judges join together with a team of ex-military special services men to bring Legrand to justice by any means necessary.

In this concluding volume of Neal Stephenson’s epic work, “Half-Cocked Jack” Shaftoe must escape the noose of Jack Ketch; the rivalry between Newton and Leibniz comes to a head; and Daniel Waterhouse pursues his dream to build the Logic Mill

In the 1960s, four ambitious new MPs take their seats at Westminster. Over three decades they share the turbulent passions and upheavals of the race for power with their wives and families, men and women caught up in a dramatic game for the highest stakes of all. But only one man can gain the ultimate goal - the office of Prime Minister.

The Future – as the richest people on the planet have discovered – is where the money is. The Future is a few billionaires leading the world to destruction while safeguarding their own survival with lavish bunkers. The Future is private weather, technological prophecy and highly deniable weapons. The Future is a handful of friends—the daughter of a cult leader, a non-binary hacker, an ousted Silicon Valley visionary, the concerned wife of a dangerous CEO, and an internet-famous survivalist—hatching a daring plan. It could be the greatest heist ever. Or the cataclysmic end of civilization.

The Containment Code: A Story of Soul Swaps, Divine Memory, and A System Breach Earth was never the original destination — it was the trap. This genre-bending spiritual sci-fi thriller blends conspiracy, soul memory, and metaphysical truths into one mind-blowing story. What if Earth is a prison planet for the chosen ones — powerful, divine souls tricked into reincarnating under surveillance and spiritual suppression? Dia Gage doesn’t know who she is — not yet. But the system does. And it’s been watching her through every glitch, every psychic vision, every livestream.

In a future rebuilt after nearly a century of war, collapse, and environmental failure, humanity survives inside mile-high vertical cities governed by artificial systems designed to optimize life, suppress instability, and enforce order at all costs. History is managed. Memory is curated. What came before has been buried beneath steel and data, entombed in an artificial twilight. It is an age shaped by systems, and a generation raised within their limits.

A Supreme Court justice murdered—and Tom Berte is the only lifeline for the accused. Comfortably settled into a civil law practice in Albany, Tom Berte has finally left behind the conspiracies and threats of his past. But when a shocking murder strikes the Supreme Court, Madison Redding...

The highly-anticipated new psychological thriller by D B Stephens, author of The Serial Killer Support Group! Don’t Get Mad. Get Deadly… Detective Sophie Salam has spent her career hunting a faceless killer known as The Caretaker. But when her daughter is kidnapped with an impossible ransom...

In a city where every movement is tracked and every decision optimized, Detective Miles Corbin still trusts paper, coffee, and instinct. When a powerful tech executive vanishes without a trace, Corbin uncovers a hidden layer beneath the city’s systems—places where surveillance fails and human choice still matters. As corporations close ranks and the city’s algorithms tighten their grip, Corbin must decide how much truth can survive in a world designed to erase it.

Welcome to Megalopolis—a sprawling, multi-tiered mega-city filled with anthropomorphic mammals trying to make ends meet. But behind the gleaming skyscrapers, hovercrafts, and AI-run infrastructure lies a darker truth: deep inequality, species bias, and a system designed to keep predators on the bottom rung of society. When rookie MPD officer June Hall—the first hare to ever join the Megalopolis Peace Department—intercepts a distress signal in Sector 9's degraded Outer Warrens, she stumbles upon something far more sinister than a simple disappearance.

Marc and his party are seeking the sarcophagus that they were sent on a quest to find, only to discover that it is now protected by far more than just the Guardian they'd been told would await them. When they return to Any Port, Marc discovers that Bastet's obsession with Beggar has reached new heights, forcing Beggar and Marc into taking action to foil Bastet's plan to kidnap the raccoon.

Der Erzähler besucht eine Irrenanstalt im Süden Frankreichs und trifft den Anstaltsleiter, der ihn in die „Menagerie" der Irren einführt. Viele der Insassen halten sich für Gegenstände oder Tiere. Die Geschichte spielt zur Zeit der Cholera-Epidemie in New York. Der Protagonist folgt einer Einladung eines Verwandten zu dessen Landhaus am Ufer des Hudson River. Der Protagonist ist äußerst abergläubisch und wird misstrauisch, nachdem er ein paar Bücher in der Bibliothek seines Freundes gelesen hat.

Ten gripping legal mysteries expose the dark heart of systemic corruption in a tense, interconnected courtroom thriller. Follow a jaded prosecutor, an idealistic public defender, and a conflicted detective as they navigate a shadowy contemporary city. Perfect for a gritty, suspense-filled...

An undercover CIA officer discovers that the company he is investigating produces an artificial intelligence product that manipulates the behavior of the general public, and he must prove it to the media or be killed by a powerful corporation that has its own military.

Retired airman Billy Moody grabbed the pistol from Ruth Anne just as she pulled the trigger to commit suicide. He quickly won her trust and took her in. As Billy learns more about this kid and the abuse she had suffered as a foster child, he vows to provide her with a better life and to learn the truth of her birth.