Resultados para "The Future" en Suspense

Controllo della tecnologia e della paura, manipolazione, applicazione del virtuale per manovrare le masse, enormi interessi in gioco e uso della malattia come modalità di controllo dell'economia. "Futura" è un romanzo avvincente ambientato tra alcuni anni. Come durante il periodo della televisione e come durante il periodo di internet, così durante il periodo olografico, che consente alle persone di proiettare proprie immagini nello spazio, la diffusione della conoscenza non è libera, ma controllata.

College admissions season at Seattle's Elliott Bay Academy is marked by glowing acceptances from top-tier institutions and students as impressive as their parents are ambitious. But when Stanford alerts the school it's allotting only one spot to EBA for their incoming class, three mothers discover the competition is more cutthroat than they could have imagined.

After seeing the results of an enemy Interrogation of his partner, Agent Charles Smith decided to retire and move from his native home of London, England to Detroit, Michigan where an old friend helps him acquire a house. After seeing the horror of gang violence and witnessing the over-populated drug lord community Agent Smith decides to use his skills and do what the local law enforcement cannot, bring some kind of control to the chaos. Smith decides to disguise himself and travel at night searching out the scum of the city.

Jack Manson, a mysterious man who seems to be timeless; the Jaguar, a retired sis agent turned vigilante; a creature known only as the shark; and all that know them are combined in this book for the first time. All have been brought together to stop a madman from destroying all of their lives in the name of revenge by releasing the deadliest weapon ever to exist, the project named Deathcalling.

Without warning, Russia starts an operation to seize control of a vital arctic waterway off the Alaska coast. For hot-wired naval aviator Karen 'Bunny' O'Hare, it's about to be a bad day at the office. Not everyone takes impending nuclear Armageddon as calmly as O'Hare. From an airfield in Russia, Major-General Bondarev is leading a war he doesn't understand against machines instead of men. Under the US embassy in Moscow, Ambassador Devlin McCarthy discovers she can follow her conscience or the orders of her Secretary of State, but not both.

'John Marrs is not to be missed' – Freida McFadden, bestselling author of The Housemaid 'Few writers do domestic suspense meets dystopia better than John Marrs' – Lucy Foley, bestselling author of The Paris Apartment 'The books of John Marrs have become a quiet phenomenon . . . Thoughtful...

Nate Lovejoy is a self-proclaimed nobody, a stay-at-home dad who doesn’t believe he’s important to anyone but his wife and their two daughters. So it’s a shock when members of a powerful secret society kidnap and spirit Nate away to a mansion at the behest of their leader, Vanslow DeGange, who claims to know the future. He’s foreseen that a billion people could die - unless Nate acts. It seems improbable, especially given what DeGange says will set this mass casualty incident in motion: a lawsuit against the biggest power company in Virginia, being brought by Nate’s wife.

“Delicious…I defy you to stop reading The Christmas Guest once you begin.” — New York Times Book Review New York Times bestselling author Peter Swanson pens a spectacularly spine-chilling novella in which an American art student in London is invited to join a classmate for the holidays...

Blue Magic, the latest designer drug linked to a rash of overdoses, might explain the needle mark on the arm of a young woman found dead in her Kansas City apartment. But when star reporter Rich Azadian digs deeper, the clues point to a far more explosive story: MaryLee Stock was a special protege of evangelical megapastor and power broker Cobalt Becker, who is poised to deliver his followers and the presidency to a firebrand right-wing senator in the next election.

Genius tech CEO Jeff Kim has just discovered that the ultrawealthy Hawkinson family stole his advanced AI prediction technology. This technology was his secret possession. A cornerstone in which he would rebuild his life’s work. But now he has serious competition. To solve his problem, Kim decides to reach out to a man he never thought he would speak to again. A Chinese intelligence officer named Liu.

Bernhard Freund hat einen Traum: reich und berühmt werden. Jedoch stehen ihm dabei Schulden und ein unregelmäßiges Einkommen im Weg. Da taucht der Geschäftsmann Joe Santer auf und macht ihm ein lukratives Angebot. Schon bald stellt sich heraus, dass Bernhard auf falsche Versprechungen hereingefallen ist. Doch da steckt er schon in einem tiefen Labyrinth aus Lügen, Betrug und Mord. Für eine Umkehr ist es zu spät. Eine lebensgefährliche Jagd beginnt.

Casey Banks is a devoutly anorexic man who discovers he can see the future by binge-eating. His new plan? Perform visions for cash while staying thin by any means necessary. Reading futures proves to be lucrative, but when he ignores a vision of his girlfriend committing a grisly murder, it sets Casey on a dangerous path toward a destiny he'll do anything to avoid.

Two best friends create a computer that can predict the future. But what they can’t predict is how it will tear their friendship—and society—apart. “A fantastic page-turner and a future classic.”—Peter Clines, New York Times bestselling author of Paradox Bound IN DEVELOPMENT AS AN...

A bomb has exploded during a fashion show, killing a beautiful model on the catwalk. The murderer is still at large...and he may strike again. Yet this is the least of police Commissioner Christian Verger's worries. His fiancée, Viola, has left him. He has to keep his tumultuous past a secret. To make things worse, his voice assistant Alexa is 99.74 percent sure he will die tomorrow.

Twenty years ago, a group of students each wrote themselves a letter, Dear Future Me. Confiding their deepest dreams and their very darkest secrets. Now the letters, thought long discarded, have begun to drop through letterboxes. For some they will make them re-evaluate the decisions they've made, the person they could have been. For others, the letters could be deadly . . .

Launched from the warm morning glow of Cape Canaveral into infinite frozen space, Commander Char Crawford’s first command for Universal Technologies’ manned mission to Mars faces a crisis they could never conceived. Absorbed by a wormhole and deposited on a different planet three hundred years in the future. Crawford is the only crew member her new hosts, an ecologically advanced egalitarian society are able to reanimate from her cryogenic sleep.

In the near future, AI and automation have rendered humans obsolete. The only way to make a living is as an influencer on the world's most popular social media platform. Cars run on apps, crime is a thing of the past, and users are served a steady diet of easily digestible content from an algorithmic faucet. But what happens when the algorithm falls into the wrong hands?

Ben and Nikolas know that if they were to compare recollections of their life together, they’d remember things very differently. Ben never asks about their time together in the Department because he doesn’t want to hear Nikolas lie. Nikolas never talks about those early years because he can’t afford for Ben to know the truth. For the first time, since their strange meeting in Whitehall 14 years ago, Ben is forced to rethink his claim that nothing Nikolas could ever do would make him stop loving him.

In the twenty-second century Earth obtains limitless, free energy from a source science little understands: an exchange between Earth and a parallel universe, using a process devised by the aliens. But even free energy has a price. The transference process itself will eventually lead to the...

For a nation that elected Barack Obama as president, here is the first novel of the new era: The Mere Future, by award-winning novelist, activist, and playwright Sarah Schulman, set in a utopian (or is it dystopic?) future vision of New York City. The city has morphed into what appears to be an idealized version of itself, the result of what the new mayor calls "The Big Change," in which rent is cheap, homelessness is a thing of the past, and the only job left is marketing.