Fantasy Political Suspense

When the rule of law fails, dishonest politicians get even dirtier. Shane and Julianna can’t compete with the debased dictators of Jackson County unless they are willing to bend a few rules of their own. Shane Black escaped the city by the skin of his teeth. But his well-stocked mountain retreat is now the target of a local despot who gained his power through bribes, payoffs, and shady politics. Mayor Hayes had few scruples before the collapse. Now that he’s the only law around, he’s down-right ornery. Road trips are always a bad idea in the apocalypse.

But the most important situations we face as adults were never discussed with us when we were students. We weren't taught these skills in school, and this makes all the success stories we hear about seem out of reach; it makes us feel dumb. We aren't dumb, we just don't know how to work the...

Crispin the mosaicist wants to concentrate on his art. Rustem of Kerakek, a physician, is also on his own journey of self-discovery. But no man may withdraw from society that easily, and both men soon find themselves drawn into the deadly webs of Sarantium. Lord of Emperors is the sequel to Sailing to Sarantium.

Discover a hidden conspiracy, a shadow government, and the CIA analyst who uncovers it all in this complete box set of The Days of Noah series by Mark Goodwin.

Deutschland in naher Zukunft: Der Rechtsruck ist unaufhaltsam, das Geld ungerecht verteilt und die Demokratie erschüttert. Wer hat wirklich die Macht im Land? Es ist Heiligabend. Bewaffnete und vermummte Gestalten dringen in die Häuser der einflussreichsten Menschen Deutschlands ein - und ihre Geiselnahmen werden live übertragen, auf allen Kanälen. Das ist die Reality Show. Der Showmaster erklärt die Spielregeln: "Zwar wählen die Menschen ihre Regierung, die Macht liegt jedoch längst nicht mehr beim Volk.

Auf der dunklen Seite des Mondes, 1973. Drei Astronauten sind in einem winzigen Apollo-Modul gefangen, aber nicht jeder an Bord ist der, der er zu sein scheint. Houston 1973. Bei der NASA laufen die Vorbereitungen für die Apollo 18 Mission auf Hochtouren. Ziel der Mission ist es, Gesteinsproben auf der Mondoberfläche zu sammeln.

Panik, Planlosigkeit, politisches Totalversagen - für diese Krise sind wir nicht bereit. Der neue Katastrophen-Thriller von Bestseller-Autor Phillip P. Peterson. Das Forschungszentrum in Köln ist das fortgeschrittenste seiner Art und das Vorzeigeprojekt der deutschen Regierung. Hier wird an Nanotechnologie experimentiert, um winzige Maschinen zu schaffen, die unser Leben von Grund auf verändern können. Das Versprechen ist groß, das Restrisiko vernachlässigbar. Heißt es.

Abel, recherché par la police et les dirigeants américains, est contraint de se battre pour survivre. Traqué au cœur du pays navajo, Abel Valdès Villazón, le leader du groupe écologiste Gaïa, révèle un scandale d'Etat, espérant ainsi provoquer la chute du gouvernement américain. Mais cette affaire dissimule un complot bien plus vaste qui implique Pékin et le milliardaire Cornélius Fox. La Maison Blanche lance toutes les forces du pays aux trousses de Gaïa, tandis qu'une bombe atomique explose dans le désert du Nouveau Mexique.

“Weisman is perhaps wired more tightly into the reclusive special operations community than any other writer, and his knowledge of weaponry and field techniques is staggering.” —Washington Times “A pro who knows his stuff.” —Oliver North John Weisman, whose expertise in the field of...

Publicado em 1949, o texto de Orwell nasceu destinado à polêmica. Traduzido em mais de sessenta países, virou minissérie, filmes, quadrinhos, mangás e até uma ópera. Ganhou holofotes em 1999, quando uma produtora holandesa batizou seu reality show de Big Brother. 1984 foi responsável pela popularização de muitos termos e conceitos, como Grande Irmão, duplopensar, novidioma, e buraco da memória. O trabalho de Winston, o herói de 1984, é reescrever artigos de jornais do passado, de modo que o registro histórico sempre apoie a ideologia do Partido.

Weimar 1942: Die Programmiererin Helene arbeitet im Nationalen Sicherheits-Amt und entwickelt dort Programme, mit deren Hilfe alle Bürger des Reichs überwacht werden. Erst als die Liebe ihres Lebens Fahnenflucht begeht und untertauchen muss, regen sich Zweifel in ihr. Mit ihren Versuchen, ihm zu helfen, gerät sie nicht nur in Konflikt mit dem Regime, sondern wird auch in die Machtspiele ihres Vorgesetzten Lettke verwickelt, der die perfekte Überwachungstechnik des Staates für ganz eigene Zwecke benutzt und dabei zunehmend jede Grenze überschreitet.

Lieutenant James Shelley and his squad of US Army soldiers were on a quest for justice when they carried out the unauthorized mission known as First Light. They returned home to America to face a court-martial, determined to expose the corruption in the chain of command that compelled their actions. But in a country still reeling from the nuclear terrorism of Coma Day, the courtroom is just one battlefield of many.

Abel se doit de faire éclater la vérité sur l'avenir de la Terre.Devenu l'ennemi public n°1, condamné comme éco-terroriste, Abel n'a pas d'autres choix que de découvrir la vérité. Vérité qui pourrait faire basculer le monde dans la sidération, l'apocalypse... Ou au contraire l'entrainer vers un tout autre futur, vers le Siècle Bleu. Complots, services secrets, mensonge d'état, chamanisme, conquête de l'espace, décryptage de codes, mais aussi espoir, utopie.

Dimos Horacki is a Borolian journalist and a cynical patriot, his muckraking days behind him. But when his newspaper ships him to the front, he’s embedded in the Imperial Army and the reality of colonial expansion is laid bare before him. His adventures take him from villages and homesteads to the great refugee city of Hronople, built of glass, steel, and stone, all while a war rages around him. The empire fights for coal and iron, but the anarchists of Hron fight for their way of life.

Darlene and Mike fight not only the foreign enemy on United States soil but the foes within the populace of America in the exciting third book of this World War 3 apocalyptic tale. Faced with chaos and disorder all around them, the survivors must not only reach Osceola but make sure it stays outside of enemy hands in this epic thriller!

James Shelley has left his lover, Delphi, and his companion-in-arms, Jayne Vasquez, with a fortune acquired from a fallen oligarch. They believe him to be dead, and he doesn't try to set the record straight. His long-running question has been answered: There are other soldiers like him who have served the purposes of the Red - and he has accepted his place among them.

In Blood of the Reich, critically acclaimed and bestselling author William Dietrich weaves two stories separated by place and time yet deeply intertwined by the dangerous secret they share. On the eve of World War II, explorer Kurt Raeder receives orders from Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler to...

Was wäre, wenn es im Dritten Reich schon Computer gegeben hätte, das Internet, E-Mails, Mobiltelefone und soziale Medien - und deren totale Überwachung? Weimar 1942: Die Programmiererin Helene arbeitet im NSA, dem Nationalen Sicherheits-Amt, und entwickelt dort Programme, mit deren Hilfe alle Bürger überwacht werden. Erst als die Liebe ihres Lebens Fahnenflucht begeht und untertauchen muss, widersetzt Helene sich. Dabei muss sie nicht nur gegen das Regime kämpfen, sondern auch gegen ihren Vorgesetzten.

Lieutenant James Shelley, who has an uncanny knack for premeditating danger, leads a squad of advanced US Army military tasked with enforcing the peace around a conflict in sub-Saharan Africa. The squad members are linked wirelessly 24/7 to themselves and a central intelligence that guides them via drone relay - and unbeknownst to Shelley and his team, they are being recorded for a reality TV show.

Civilisation is collapsing. Frustrated and angry after years of denial and inaction, a government of youth has taken power in North America, and a policy of institutionalised ageism introduced. All those older than the prescribed age are deemed responsible for the current state of the world, and are to be 'relocated', their property and assets confiscated. David Ashworth and his wife May find themselves among the thousands being moved to the southern deserts.