Technothrillers

When the National Security Agency’s invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power....

At CERN, a scientist has just made an incredible discovery—a breakthrough that may answer the deepest questions about human existence. But what he's found is far more dangerous than he ever imagined....

In the near future, the nano-drug Nexus can link mind to mind. There are some who want to improve it. There are some who want to eradicate it....

The United States government is given a warning by the preeminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate....

Ten years ago, Hell Diver Xavier "X" Rodriguez fell to Earth. Those he left behind went on without him aboard the airship he once called home....

Fears of a weaponized blockchain become reality when a software developer races to deactivate the rogue smart contract targeting him for assassination.

Aditya runs a gaming company that is struggling to break even. A banker slips off a high-rise building, plunging to her death. The finance minister has made some promises that he is finding hard to keep. Enter Varun, part-time drug dealer and full-time genius....

Jack Ryan Jr.--along with the covert warriors of the Campus--continues to uphold his legendary father’s legacy of courage and honor in this thriller from number one New York Times bestselling author Tom Clancy....

A classic thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton, Sphere is a bravura demonstration of what he does better than anyone: riveting storytelling that combines frighteningly plausible, cutting-edge science and technology with pulse-pounding action....

One winter night, seven men and a woman are parachuted onto a mountainside in wartime Germany....

The Campus has been discovered. And whoever knows they exist knows they can be destroyed. Meanwhile, President Jack Ryan has been swept back into the Oval Office - and his wisdom and courage are needed more desperately than ever....

In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the US Navy - is assigned to Detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt....

Humanity fights for its future as Godzilla and Kong embark on a path of destruction that will see the two most powerful forces of nature on the planet collide in an all-out war....

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.

A riveting thriller of corporate intrigue and cutthroat competition between American and Japanese business interests....

In a world of conflicted loyalties, rapidly diminishing human power, and the possibility that anyone can be a spy, what's at stake is nothing less than human freedom's last hope to survive the technology revolution....

The classic World War II thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense....

Six months have passed since the release of Nexus 5. The world is a different, more dangerous place....

The explosive conclusion to Nexus and Crux. Global unrest spreads through the US, China, and beyond. Secrets and lies set off shockwaves of anger, rippling from mind to mind....

Robots are no longer science fiction. Autonomous, programmed to react like animals: fast, relentless, deadly. From microscopic nanobots to massive self-guided aircraft....

The best-selling author of Daemon returns with a near-future technological thriller, in which a charismatic billionaire recruits a team of adventurers to launch the first deep space mining operation - a mission that could alter the trajectory of human civilization....

X Ways to Die continues the tense, multi-stranded story which begun with Motive X. It is at once an explosive, high-voltage thriller and a fearless exploration of the darkest side of human nature.... 

The travelers on the ship Peerless have completed a generations-long struggle to develop advanced technology in a desperate attempt to save their home world....

When unforeseen circumstances during an innovative—and unsanctioned—commercial asteroid-mining mission leave two crew members stranded, those who make it back must engineer a rescue, all while navigating a shifting web of global political alliances and renewed Cold War tensions....

Kurdish terrorists have attacked a dam inside the borders of Turkey, threatening the water supply of their very homeland....

Lou è una giovane donna felicemente sposata, madre della piccola Nova. Ma Lou è anche un clone della precedente Lou, uccisa pochi mesi prima da un serial killer, arrestato per l’omicidio di altre quattro donne, e riportata in vita, insieme alle altre vittime, da un programma governativo di clonazione. Le cinque donne si conoscono, si incontrano, si sostengono. Finché Lou deciderà di andare a fondo alla sua storia e provare a capire quali motivazioni hanno spinto il suo assassino a scegliere proprio lei, trovandosi di fronte a una verità insospettata.

Expert linguist Charlie and her team of NCIS agents are hot on the trail of the mysterious alien pods. But after a new arrival opens to reveal a young child, her investigation is thrown into chaos. Faced with terrifying questions about the true origins of their seemingly extra-terrestrial visitors, Charlie is plunged into a race against time to unscramble a mysterious text before more pods arrive.

Black-ops legend Chris Wren has hunted the 'Pinocchios' for months, a hacker group stalking innocents on the dark Internet — including Wren's own kids. Now two anti-Pinocchio activists are dead in Detroit, and that's just the beginning.

Mythical antiquity collides with a near-future cyberworld as The Oracle’s unassuming hero and his FBI partner race against time to dismantle the Delphians’ murderous blockchain software. Theirs is a whirlwind tale of oracles ancient and modern, vanished antiquities and conjured crypto billions, cybercriminals and digital idealists—narrated by a cynical hero normally more concerned with dark chocolate than the consequences of the technologies he’s pioneering. What happens when the crypto ideals of privacy and truth might cost human lives—especially your own?

With United States troops and aircraft on Taiwanese soil, and missiles flying across the Taiwan Strait, the world prepares itself for the war that has been building since the turn of the century. Will China back down, or double down? Will the fragile Western Coalition hold? Will regional conflict tip over into a global war? And what's next for the newly raised 68th Aggressor Squadron and the personnel of Aggressor Inc.?

Featuring a plot taken from tomorrow's headlines, cutting-edge technologies that are on the drawing board today, and characters you will never forget, the Aggressor series delivers guaranteed thrillers for military fiction enthusiasts.

Alzando gli occhi al cielo non si vede, eppure è lí. Il Sole Nero. Il Distruttore. Fra trenta giorni se ne accorgeranno tutti, ma allora sarà troppo tardi. Pochissimi sanno cosa sta per accadere: politici, industriali e finanzieri, vertici religiosi e militari. Ogni gruppo di iniziati al segreto trama ai danni degli altri, con un proprio obiettivo... Ma esiste una speranza. Secoli fa qualcuno ha creato uno strumento per opporsi a questa diabolica cospirazione.

A una settantina di chilometri da Milano sorge Picta, una cittadina non segnata sulle carte e che non dovrebbe neppure esistere (Picta muore). La sua popolazione, ignorata dagli atti ufficiali, è ridotta quasi a zero e vive rigorosamente segregata. Il mistero di Picta s'intreccia con la caccia a un nuovo, tremendo virus informatico scatenata dall'Interpol nonché da Gregorius Moffa, lo spietato killer che è l'antieroe anche del secondo romanzo ospitato in questo volume (L'algoritmo bianco).

In 2029 Kansas City, Master Detective John Simon is a tough cop with a disdain for technology. His new movie quoting partner doesn’t make him happy. How can you trust a robot? ‪And what’s with the name…Lucas George?‪ Simon and Lucas don’t have time for squabbles. Something isn’t right about this case. There’s more to it than smuggling, but they don’t know what exactly.‪ They have one more problem.‪ Evidence is disappearing and people are getting killed.

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.

Sie haben etwas Böses erweckt. Und nun wird es sie jagen... Im Thriller Extinction trifft Relic auf Jurassic Park – Bestseller-Autor Douglas Preston sorgt für filmreifen Nervenkitzel der Extraklasse! Tief in den Rocky Mountains liegt das gigantische Ferienresort Erebus. Dank modernster Gentechnik können die betuchten Gäste wie vor Jahrtausenden wollige Mammuts, gewaltige Riesenhirsche und meterhohe Riesenfaultiere in ihrem natürlichen Habitat erleben. Als ein Millionärssohn und seine Frau entführt und im Hinterland tot aufgefunden werden, gerät eine Gruppe von gewaltbereiten Öko-Terroristen in Verdacht.

Technology pioneer Dr. Gerald Price is at the height of his scientific career. After years of research in the field of memory augmentation, he's just made a world-changing breakthrough. But his life's work is mysteriously cut short by a fatal overdose in a seedy motel. All evidence points to a suicide, and the case is closed . . . until Detective Morgan Reed begins working a series of similarly strange deaths. As Reed joins forces with Detective Natalie De La Cruz to expose the lies and corporate treachery at the heart of the suicides, they discover a shocking plot.

He'd been an important part of the team putting together the International Data Bank, which would track every single move made by every single human being. As the project neared completion, he realized that no one would ever truly be free again. At the very last moment he blanked his file, changed his face, and created a back door into the system.

2041. Auf dem Jupitermond Ganymed verschwindet eine Sonde spurlos, die den Ozean unter seiner Eiskruste studieren sollte. Die NASA macht den Programmierer Bavin Joshi dafür verantwortlich, der für die Software der Sonde zuständig war. Bavin wehrt sich - und muss überrascht feststellen, dass niemand an der Wahrheit interessiert ist. Die ganze Mission scheint von einem dunklen Geheimnis umgeben zu sein, das er vielleicht lieber nicht aufdecken sollte.

It is twenty years after the catastrophic war between the US and China that brought down the old American political order. A new party has emerged in the US, one that’s held power for over a decade. Efforts to tighten its grip have resulted in mounting violent resistance. The American president has control of the media, but he is beginning to lose control of the streets. Many fear he’ll stop at nothing to remain in the White House. Suddenly, he collapses in the middle of an address to the nation. After an initial flurry of misinformation, the administration reluctantly announces his death.