Résultats pour "death" dans Technothrillers

A one-man team of experts, Stephen Leeds is a genius of unparalleled mental capabilities who can learn new skills or master entire scholarly disciplines in mere hours. However, these skills come at a price. Stephen must compartmentalize his brain, with each of his new skill sets being held by an “aspect”—a hallucination his mind creates with their own fully-developed personality, life, and limitations. Without these aspects, and the delicate construct of reality they provide for him, Stephen is unable to control his mind and engage with the real world.  

Christmas Eve, 2059 in Nashville—a breakfast diner table overflows with coffee mugs, biscuit crumbs, and a crayon-sketched paper tablecloth. Seated around it: two lawmakers, a marine, a hunter, and a tech trillionaire. Their mission: rescue innocent loved ones caught in the crosshairs of a diabolical plan for extortion.

A devastating misdiagnosis. A buried truth. One man’s fight for justice. After the sudden death of his wife, decorated war veteran Jon Wesley is drowning in grief, addiction, and the crushing weight of fatherhood. Isolated and unraveling, he’s barely holding on. Then, a mysterious whistleblower comes forward with a chilling claim: Amanda’s cancer was misdiagnosed, and her life could have been saved. The revelation thrusts Jon into a deadly web of medical negligence, buried errors, and systemic deceit.

Frankie Percival is cashing in her chips. To save her brother from financial ruin, Frankie—a single stage performer and mentalist who never made it big—agrees to be assassinated on the most popular television show on the planet: Death Warrant. Once she signs her life away, her memory is wiped clean of the agreement, leaving her with no idea she will soon be killed spectacularly for global entertainment.

Lewis and Lindsay Thorpe were the perfect couple: young, attractive, and ideally matched. But the veil of perfection can mask many blemishes. When the Thorpes are found dead in their tasteful Flagstaff living room (having committed double suicide), alarms go off in the towering Manhattan offices...

Deep within the NSA is Desk Three, a top-secret unit of special operatives inserted into the field when the threat is great and the response demands sensitivity and invisibility. Charlie Dean, a former Marine sniper, is a senior officer. With his colleagues Lia DeFrancesca and newcomer Ilya Akulinin, they form the core of a high-tech team known as Deep Black.

It doesn’t predict death. It schedules it. A healthy man dies in his own home. No signs of struggle. No toxins. No warning. Just a time of death that lines up… a little too perfectly. Detective Cole Mercer knows something is wrong. The air feels off. The room looks staged. And the house… is still watching. As Mercer investigates, a pattern begins to emerge—one buried deep inside the smart homes of Charleston. Each victim was connected. Each death was clean.

Hayden Lichfield’s life is ripped apart when he finds his father murdered in their lab, and the camera logs erased. The killer can only have been after one thing: the Sisyphus Formula the two of them developed together, which might one day reverse death itself. Hoping to lure the killer into the open, Hayden steals the research. In the process, he uncovers a recording his father made in the days before his death, and a dying wish: Avenge me.

It’s been almost a year since crime boss Alex Nicholas was killed on his home turf in Queens, and his straight-arrow brother Michael inherited the elder Nicholas’ loan sharking and betting business. Unfortunately for Michael, he also inherited Alex’s enemies—and there seem to be a lot of them. As Michael learns to navigate a world he once shunned and feared, he’s both helped and hindered by his friends, his wife Samantha, his bodyguard Sindy Steele, who’s every bit as lethal as she is stunning, and his brother Alex, who may not be as dead as everyone thinks.…

Would you sell your life to save another? Special forces vet, Samantha Jones, is a lowly bodyguard for Ethan Anderson, the biotech billionaire who revolutionized life extension. But at least she’s got a job, unlike most, and won’t have to sell her organs to support her family. Sure, they’re poor, but she’s got death insurance and a roof over her head. Life is livable...But then Sam’s daughter is kidnapped and sold for parts. Overnight, her life (and belief in the system) shatters.

It is 1981 when college student Kevin Sommers winds up dead under mysterious circumstances in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. His sister Terri, an investigative reporter from Chicago, arrives in Marquette, Michigan, to begin looking into his death. She is sure that something is not right; she has no idea how correct she is.

When Gus Dupin, literary critic and scholar, finds himself invited to the funeral of Peggy Firmin, celebrated novelist and now murder victim, he is determined to find out who killed her and why. As his investigation gets underway, it is not long before he finds himself at the center of an experiment at Marlow AI, a large language model company.

Mark Bronson, a young high-tech engineer blacklisted by Silicon Valley venture capitalists and desperate for a job, takes a position as a temporary lab technician for a month. In the lab, he accidentally discovers a death ray. Mark then gets sucked in to a world of government perfidy and power politics, of espionage and intrigue, and of stress that reveals true character.

Deep within the NSA is Desk Three, a top-secret unit of special operatives inserted into the field when the threat is great and the response demands sensitivity and invisibility. Charlie Dean, a former Marine sniper, is a senior officer. With his colleagues Lia DeFrancesca and newcomer Ilya Akulinin, they form the core of a high-tech team known as Deep Black.

The classic tale of high-octane adventure set in the world of 1970s Formula One, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. Johnny Harlow seems to have it all: he's good looking, desired by women, and envied by men; he's also the reigning Formula One world champion, the poster-boy for the...

'This fast, furious, twisty thriller kept me on the edge of my seat' Chris Ryan 'If Stephen King had collaborated with Michael Crichton on a thriller, it might have been as good as this' Peterborough Evening Telegraph A UNEXPLAINED DEATH The discovery of a horribly mutilated corpse launches FBI...

The New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance returns with the thirteenth pulse-pounding thriller in the “engaging and entertaining” (Los Angeles Times) Ali Reynolds series. After taking down the man responsible for his best friend’s death, Stuart Ramey believes the case is finally...

What if it's not safe to turn on the tap? When grad student Summer Cassidy arrives in West Virginia to test water quality near fracking sites, she confronts fouled wells, puzzling illnesses, and cyberespionage. The community splits into two camps, each with high stakes: jobs that feed families and millions in investments versus clean water and the good health it makes possible. Gut-wrenching betrayals, explosions, and murder ignite this fast-paced mystery.

Michael Mace, head of security at a top-secret research facility, opens his eyes in a makeshift morgue twenty-four hours following an event in which everyone perished—including him and his best friend, Shelby Shrewsberry. Having awakened with an extraordinary ability unlike anything he—or anyone else—has ever imagined, Michael is capable of being as elusive as a ghost. He sets out to honor his late friend by helping Nina Dozier and her son, John, whom Shelby greatly admired.

In the third thrilling installment of this award-winning series from New York Times best seller Rebecca Cantrell, tortured genius Joe Tesla is on the trail of a sadistic serial killer who charms his victims into the bowels of the Manhattan subway system - and who holds the keys to Joe's crippling condition. Can Joe stop the murderous rampage of this silver-tongued killer, or will he become the next victim?