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"Fun and Games in Paradise- Post-Putin Russia sometimes finds its interests align more closely with Western powers than since the 1990s. Mr. Halstead, a former diplomat, is well informed, and all his books are entertaining and interesting. As an Australian, the thought of China advancing its interests aggressively in Polynesia is unsettling. Despite official encouragement, Australian firms refuse to expand into Polynesia because it's too hard, leaving the field open for the Chinese, who are enterprising and industrious. Great fare for those who enjoy intelligent techno-thrillers." ...

Left to die on a volcanic world by the Skrull, McGill and his mercenaries face waves of missile attacks with nowhere to hide. When the Skrull seal themselves inside an impenetrable energy dome, McGill knows he has to get creative. Even if that means sabotaging alien power plants, blackmailing his superior officers, and using his own troops as bait in a deadly game of cat and mouse.

Kate has managed to survive a massive cyber attack that annihilated the US banking system. The societal collapse that followed in the wake of the attack has already claimed the lives of millions, including members of Kate’s own family. The government has instituted a temporary solution, but another wave of computer viruses has just been found. This time, the malware is targeting America’s power grid. To make matters worse, Kate inadvertently killed the leader of a violent local gang, and there’s a price on her head. Trouble and peril await her at every turn.

The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming at will. Contact with extraterrestrial life grows more imminent with each new day.

It's 2029, and America’s space program, once a beacon of hope for the future, is now a guttering candle. Even as Roscosmos thrives and China’s manned space program reaches new heights, NASA prepares to send the last symbol of a once-mighty dream of exploration —the International Space Station —tumbling to its fiery death.

Caught up in a series of hideous headline-generating crimes, Will Stewart questions whether to reveal himself or allow innocent lives to be lost. An old enemy surfaces. A vile night stalker poses a threat. And helping Andy determine the fate of a missing Essex police officer while testing the side effects of "the other thing" pushes Will to the edge...until he's accused of a crime he DID commit.

In THE SECOND FOUNDATION, Isaac Asimov addresses the phenomenon of genetic mutation and its potential danger to a civilization. This novel tells of an overwhelmingly powerful mutant human being, born with the ability to mold men's emotions and minds. He has brought down the First Foundation, and...

From Michael Crichton, the #1 bestselling author of Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain, comes a devilishly clever, breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems, and genetic ownership shatters our assumptions. Welcome to our genetic world. Fast, furious, and out of control...

For technician Josie and her team, the sudden collapse of the Lightspeed wireless grid was more than just the end of a job– it was the beginning of a terrifying nightmare. Stranded, abandoned, and under siege at one of Lightspeed's aid centers, their only chance at safety is a perilous trek to a nearby community they hope will offer refuge. In the rugged mountains of Virginia, Jim Powell leads a hardscrabble community clinging to survival.

In 2004, Navy pilots encountered something impossible off the coast of San Diego. The Tic Tac incident became the most documented UAP case in history, and the most ignored. Twenty years later, oceanographer Dr. Morgan Hale discovers why. Morgan sees patterns others miss. Seven miles beneath the Pacific, her acoustic sensors detect a repeating signal anchored to the Mariana Trench. Seventy-two hour cycles. Harmonic intervals. Coordinated across every ocean floor on Earth. When she isolates the pattern, the timeline becomes clear: contact is coming. And it's not random. It's scheduled. With ...

Agent 917 was never meant to remember. The implant in his skull erased every mission, every doubt, every trace of the man he used to be. When he awoke, the directive was always the same. Kill the target. Go back to sleep. But something is breaking. When a rogue ex-agent leaves behind a journal exposing the Agency’s darkest secrets, 917 amnesia fragments. Memories return. A woman’s face. A child’s voice. A life buried beneath years of manufactured obedience. The missions are no longer clean. As memories resurface and the implant starts to fail, 917 uncovers a truth more dangerous than ...

Some monsters are made in laboratories. Some are standing right beside you. FBI Agent Gabi Longoria thought she knew every danger of living in a world filled with superhumans. But nothing prepared her for the terror growing inside her own home. Her partner—and the man she loves—Ian Armory, is losing control, plagued by violent blackouts and terrifying changes he can’t explain. Each episode leaves him less himself, more something else: stronger, wilder, and increasingly unpredictable. Ian believes he could soon become a threat to everyone around him—including Gabi. Desperate for ...

Visiting home in her small Oklahoma town, Claire looks up and sees an alien disk hanging in the sky—and then everything goes black. When she wakes, it’s in a different body in California, with a new family, and flashes of someone else’s memories that don’t quite fit. Mirrors show a face that feels wrong, strange men seem to be following her, and she can’t shake the question: which life is real—the one she remembers in Oklahoma, or the one everyone insists she’s always had in California? Teaming up with the local librarian who knows more than he should, Claire is pulled into a ...

Billy Gamble finds people who disappear. This time, it's family. They called it Thunder. Twenty-three million dollars of DARPA black budget. Reactive camouflage. Autonomous targeting. A weapons platform so classified that the soldiers who operated it didn't officially exist. Now it's gone. Stolen from a military testing range by a man who knows exactly what it can do — and intends to prove it on the streets of Washington, D.C. The Pentagon wants it back. The CIA wants it quiet. Billy Gamble just wants his brother alive. Lowell Gamble operated Thunder for eight years. Now he's a hostage, ...

Editorial Review A chilling, cinematic thriller inspired by one of the most controversial encounters in modern history, The Walton Files delivers relentless tension, emotional shock, and a finale that lingers long after the final page. Fans of Fire in the Sky will find this story both terrifying and disturbingly plausible, blending documented events with escalating suspense at blockbuster scale. Ted Lazaris proves once again why he is known as the Master of Documented Terror, crafting a haunting narrative that turns a real mystery into unforgettable horror. THE WALTON FILES A True ...

The most dangerous woman in the world doesn't want to be found. The most stubborn man in the world doesn't care. A device that can crack the encryption protecting every cryptocurrency on earth is stolen from a Silicon Valley lab. The thief is a mysterious woman no government can identify. With only her golden eyes as a lead, Billy Gamble — a Wyoming cowboy with a rare gift — is sent to find her. She's trying to disappear. He's trying to bring her in. And a North Korean kill squad is trying to make sure neither of them leaves San Francisco alive. As Billy closes the distance, he begins ...

Special Operations Chief Tyler Brooks might not know quantum mechanics, or have an eidetic memory, but he is the very best in the world at one thing: leading covert ops. When an unpredictable enemy causes the catastrophic loss of his entire SEAL team, Brooks is recruited by Pat Moody to lead a new elite squad, Task Force Omega. Moody’s promise—access to mind-bending tech that grants a glimpse of the future.

To save her people, she will destroy everything. An exciting sci-fi assassin and heist thriller set thousands of years in the future, in a time when humanity has spread through the stars. Everyone wants Heather Kilgore dead, even those she once called friends. Pursued by her own agency, she flees to the Outer Rim, where she’ll attempt one last time to put an end to a war that will kill billions. Her target: an interstellar arms manufacturer bent on destabilizing the Fringe and Heather’s star nation for profit. But she won’t be able to do it alone.

Juliet Bianchi was once just another working drone, struggling to survive in a world where megacorporations reigned, information was power, and that power was worth killing for. Then she stumbled upon a kidnapping gone wrong and ended up with a stolen AI chip that took her from the bottom of the barrel to a top-tier realm of mercs, freelancers, and assorted unsavory folk.

For the King’s best assassin, failure is never an option. But when the head of her Order sends her on an impossible mission, Heather Kilgore begins to question everything she knows. And she’ll have to make a choice: Start a war or fail her mission.