Résultats pour "kill" dans Technothrillers

Blutiger Drohnenangriff auf eine Pilgerstätte im Irak. Ein weiterer Angriff trifft eine kalifornische Universität. Die Biologin Linda McKinney weiß nichts davon...

Igloo and Angie are the co-founders of a new social network, Tapestry, based on the principles of privacy and data ownership. Two years later, with Tapestry poised to become the world’s largest social network, their rapid growth puts them under government scrutiny. Tapestry’s privacy and security is so effective that it impedes the government’s ability to monitor routine communications. Fearing Tapestry will spread to encompass the whole of the Internet, threatening America’s surveillance abilities around the globe, the government swoops in to stop Angie and company.

By day, Angie, a 20-year veteran of the tech industry, is a data analyst at Tomo, the world's largest social networking company; by night, she exploits her database access to profile domestic abusers and kill the worst of them. She can't change her own traumatic past, but she can save other women. When Tomo introduces a deceptive new product that preys on users' fears to drive up its own revenue, Angie sees Tomo for what it really is - another evil abuser.

Evan Smoak, einst Orphan X – der gefürchtetste Auftragskiller eines geheimen Programms – und heute als »Nowhere Man« die letzte Hoffnung für Verzweifelte, steht am Wendepunkt: Eine persönliche Krise zwingt ihn zum Rückzug. Doch als seine Nichte Sofia ihn bittet, ihren verschwundenen Hund zu finden, kann er nicht Nein sagen. Was wie ein harmloser Gefallen beginnt, eskaliert zum größten Einsatz seines Lebens.

Reno, Nevada, has long been the place where the fortunes of man—both good and evil—collide. Stretching across the Truckee Meadows from the Pah Rah to the Sierras, this high desert city stands guardian over the fastest route for men and material to travel from the San Francisco Bay, East, towards the Rockies. Chinese soldiers disguised as circus performers have successfully caried out Operation Wŭjù, a smaller element of the larger Christmas Eve attack known as Mongol Moon. They have seized the Biggest Little City, forcing Renoites into an impossible decision: raise the stakes or fold entirely.

When the truth is buried beneath layers of power, deception, and silence, one man becomes the weapon that can tear it all down. Jack Mitchell is no spy. No soldier. Just a former plumber with six kids, a quiet life, and a past he thought he left behind. But when a cryptic message from a dead operative falls into his hands, Jack uncovers a global conspiracy built on mind control, information warfare, and engineered chaos.

Linda McKinney is a myrmecologist, a scientist who studies the social structure of ants. Her academic career has left her entirely unprepared for the day her sophisticated research is conscripted by unknown forces to help run an unmanned - and thanks to her research, automated - drone army. Odin is the secretive Special Ops soldier with a unique insight into the faceless enemy who has begun to attack the American homeland with drones programmed to seek, identify, and execute targets.

The Chameleon, an Artificial Intelligence expert, can create a deepfake of almost anyone—living or dead. Even more frightening is the Chameleon’s ability to seek out disturbed souls and laser-focus their rage. A talent she employs to compel her subjects to commit violence on her behalf. Kylee Kane, a security consultant for Welch HOA Management, finds the Chameleon’s first victim, Andy Fyke, crumpled at the bottom of a flight of stairs. Kylee suspects the fall’s no accident and is tied to Andy’s campaign to prohibit rentals in his Hilton Head Island community.

In 2068, in St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Douglas (Doug) Michaels finds his lifelong friend Josh Unger dead in his home. When law enforcement concludes his death was a suicide, Doug and his wife Ali are dumbstruck; they wonder what could explain such a needlessly violent and lonely death in a future where such actions are unimaginable.

After The Taxi Driver kills himself, Nico Tucker, The Cleaner, Lachlan, and Cale find themselves caught in a web of intrigue featuring allies and a mysterious crime organization known as The Dragonheads. Will Ellen and Johnny Sue make it back to Headmays? Who is trustworthy, and who isn't? Will Nemo and Co. be finally defeated by triggering "The Kill Switch"? Or will Stella live to fight another day? The suspense continues.

Nephilim ist ein Guardian Angel, eine der kybernetisch verbesserten Supersoldaten, die geschaffen wurden, um zu schützen und zu vernichten. Beschütze das Olympias Konglomerat, den Megakonzern, dem sie gehören, und vernichte seine Feinde — koste es, was es wolle. Nephilim ist rücksichtslos, sexy und die beste dieser Elite-Cyborgs — eine unaufhaltsame Tötungsmaschine. Aber wie alle ihre Artgenossen wurde sie nicht als solche geboren, sondern geschaffen.

Zayne Wryder was erased without warning. Once a covert operative for Redcell—the rogue government division that turned memory into a weapon—he vanished during a mission that no one speaks about. Years later, he resurfaces… with a kill switch in his brain, a stolen data drive in his hand, and a countdown that’s already ticking. Now he’s hunted by the very ghosts he used to call teammates.

What happened to the girls? Overnight, hundreds of teenage girls disappear from the streets of America. Off the coast of Florida, a virtual reality theme park opens for the super-rich. Are the two connected? When two assailants accost 23-year-old Kaden Baker at an awards gala, she enters a maelstrom of high-tech international intrigue that pits her against a mysterious foe.

“[A] tight, twisty thriller….Hums along like a sizzling fastball thrown straight and sure.” —Providence Journal-Bulletin Bestselling author James Grippando is back with a gripping stand-alone thriller. Intent to Kill electrifies from the first inning on—as a fallen baseball...

Sam Floyd leads a normal life until Special Detective Erica Sayles unexpectedly appears one day and asks for his help to catch a killer. But not just any killer. In an alternate universe, Erica’s been pursuing Thomas Weir, Sam’s homicidal other self. Despite Sam’s reservations, Erica convinces him to accompany her to a different version of Earth. Sam soon finds himself in a technologically advanced society where high-ranking police officers can change their appearance at will and the president holds daily televised dance parties.

An insidious plot to efficiently kill. The plan: take down the internet, the power grid, defense systems, satellites…kill anything that is linked to a computer. The only thing still working is the ticking clock. A brilliant billionaire and a lethal female ex-agent are the only ones who stand in the way of an all-out war against modern life. With cell phones down, planes falling out of the sky, and cities in total darkness, there may not be enough time to prevent the end of the world, as we know it. When everything is down, it’s a long way up.

Thriller master and New York Times bestselling author Patrick Robinson presents a startling if all-too-real scenario that pits the United States against France and Saudi Arabia Always on the cutting edge of global political and military events, Robinson offers his most epic stunner yet. A rogue...

“We the jury find the defendant, Rachel Iris Chester, guilty.” With those words, Sylvia Harbinger’s life as an NYPD detective is over. Sylvia is done with serial killers, done with therapy, and done with a New York City now rife with WHISPs—the creepy, gray shadows of her nightmares. She and husband Ben have a deal. She retires and they both move to Montana to escape the WHISP phenomenon. It is the only way to save their marriage after the Chester case, even if it leaves their WHISP-affected son, Lincoln, behind. Then the phone rings.

Bart lives in the pressure cooker that’s the Black Hole; a neon-lit hell filled with prostitutes, pimps, and pushers. Muggings, murders, and mods are commonplace, and few earn enough credits to get by, let alone support a family.

Biding its time for decades, China has patiently lain in wait for its chance at global dominance. Long content to needle the West while secretly amassing intelligence, technology, and resources, the war chest is now full, and the gears of the colossus are grinding into motion. New arenas of modern battle emerge as China wages an all-out cyber assault on the West. And the more familiar tactics of brute strength play out in its bold attacks against sovereign neighbors. The scope of the Chinese menace draws the US into the melee.