Dystopian Mystery

When a bomb goes off at InTech HQ, everything changes for Tanta's corporation. Order becomes disorder. Safety becomes danger. Calm becomes chaos. Tanta is tasked with getting to the bottom of the attack before violence and unrest overtake the city. But even though the evidence points towards rival corporation Thoughtfront, Tanta can't shake the feeling that she's missing something. There's a dark secret at the heart of the case, one that will reveal more about her own corporation than Tanta would like.

Charlie and Annie Cooper are separated - captured by Millstone officials, placed on work camps, and in high-security segregation cells. Charlie is determined to gather Defiants, and build a driving force against the repressive government that has gained alarming momentum, as Millstone plans to invade other countries. Being placed on 24-hour watch, Charlie is faced with setbacks - harsh work environments, disease, and an old friend who has turned into his enemy. With the threat of being hanged lurking over him, he must go against everything he believes in to stay alive.

Imagine a world devoid of violence - a world where fists can’t hit, guns don’t kill, and bombs can’t destroy. In this tantalizing novel of possibility, this has - suddenly and inexplicably - become our new reality. The US president must find a new way to wage war. The pope ponders whether the Commandment “Thou Shalt Not Kill” is still relevant.

Berlin versinkt in Düsternis: Teil 3 der faszinierenden Near-Future-Thrillerreihe. Berlin in einer nahen Zukunft: Seitdem ihr Chef, der Cop Birol, spurlos verschwunden ist, sind die Polizeischülerin Laura und die zum Strafdienst verurteilte Raven auf sich allein gestellt. Auch sie werden verfolgt, dennoch suchen sie nicht nur fieberhaft nach Birol, sondern auch nach dem verschwundenen Milliardärssohn Sky. Während im und um den riesigen Club "Utopia Gardens" immer mehr Menschen sterben, ahnen Raven und Laura nicht, wie mächtig die Leute sind, mit denen sie sich angelegt haben.

Dr. Newman is at the leading edge of creating the perfect educational environment for children, and all he requires is a hefty tuition - and your child at the age of six months. Christopher Carson is one of the “Newman Residents” who live at the Newman Home year-round. His parents, Richard and Carol, both Manhattan attorneys, may disagree about the specifics, but each wants what’s best for their son. Not long into Christopher’s visit, Richard begins to suspect that the Newman Home’s methods for developing their children into future leaders are too experimental.

In the derelict house next door to a building site, Dawn lives with a young woman who says to call her Mum. Dawn loves the hole in the roof, where she can always see blue. She loves her book of birds and she loves Mrs Goring, the old lady who lives on the ground floor. But when Dawn's medicine runs out and Mrs Goring disappears, Dawn begins see the world as it really is. Next door, the new facility to hold children like her is almost finished. But Dawn wants to live. Can she escape, find Mrs Goring and the truth about her family before the doors to the Sparehouse open?

Cato is the only true half-human, half-ghost hybrid in existence. He's powerful and unique with two divine powers instead of one. After being an unwilling test subject in Project Alpha for two years, Cato and the rest of his "lab-family" survive a transport accident to find themselves stranded and powerless in the middle of the wilderness. Cato wants nothing to do with his past, but as his enemies close in, he realizes he's willing to do anything to protect his lab-family...even kidnap the daughter of a ghost hunter and make a dangerous deal to become a mercenary.

Nach "Der Circle" kommt jetzt die digitale Weltherrschaft: "Every". Der Circle ist die größte Suchmaschine gepaart mit dem größten Social-Media-Anbieter der Welt. Eine Fusion mit dem erfolgreichsten Onlineversandhaus steht an, woraus das reichste und gefährlichste - seltsamerweise auch beliebteste - Monopol aller Zeiten entsteht: Every. Delaney Wells ist "die Neue" bei Every und nicht gerade das, was man erwarten würde in einem Tech-Unternehmen. Als ehemalige Försterin und unerschütterliche Technikskeptikerin bahnt sie sich heimlich ihren Weg, mit nur einem Ziel vor Augen: die Firma von innen heraus zu zerschlagen.

Red Clocks: A Novel: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! * Five women. One question. What is a woman for? In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the...

In one of the most stunning debuts to come along in years, reminiscent of Philip K. Dick’s best work and P. D. James’s classic The Children of Men, David Oppegaard gives us a world whose near future presents some terrifying realities. The Despair has plagued the earth for five years. Most of...

“A must-read—a gorgeous literary novel that asks us to imagine all the possible versions of ourselves that might exist.”—J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of Saints for All Occasions The residents of a sleepy mountain town are rocked by troubling visions of an...

Like any mother, Chrissie wants to protect her family. She would do anything to keep them safe. So when a mysterious stranger turns up at her door, offering to prevent the deaths of the people she loves, it sounds too good to be true. The only problem: she must choose someone to die in their place. A substitute. When her daughter Holly has a terrible accident, Chrissie has no option but to enter the programme. In that horrifying moment, she would do anything to save her.

Imagine a London where magic is real...real, but feared. This is Eliza Braxton's London, and she has always accepted her place in it gladly. As one of the Riftborn, her magic has relegated her to the servant class, where she dutifully serves as the lady's maid in one of the most powerful households in the country. There, she uses her remarkable powers of persuasion to keep Elder Hallewell's rebellious daughter in the path to an arranged match of power and prosperity. Eliza has never questioned her loyalty...until now.

Everything changed when scientists discovered the drug. It looked like the cure for aging, but all progress comes with a price tag. Now, eternal youthfulness will be paid for by the blood of the innocent. The blood of “carriers” is the most valuable commodity on earth. When treated with a...

A virus nearly wiped out the human race. In order to survive, people are segregated into three tiers. Those with the best genetic viability get the most resources, and Kate and Eric are lucky enough to end up in Tier One.

Wenn dich deine Feinde jagen, mach dir die Illusion zum Freund! Nanopark, Deutschlands modernster Freizeitpark, in dem virtuelle Welten und Wirklichkeit zu einem unvergesslichen Erlebnis verschmelzen, wird überfallen. Terroristen nehmen alle Besucher als Geiseln. Nur dem ehemaligen Polizisten Simon Klein gelingt die Flucht. Von den Geiselnehmern gejagt und ohne eine Möglichkeit, Realität und Schein unterscheiden zu können, kämpft er ums Überleben und sucht einen Weg aus der hermetisch abgeriegelten Kuppel, während um ihn herum der Park zur Todesfalle wird.

Un drama tecnológico con aires japoneses y profundas raíces shakespearianas, "Los años del silencio" nos plantea una sociedad enmarcada en el pasado pero de avanzada tecnología. En ella se mezclan amores, traiciones, reflexiones sobre el destino y la tradición en medio de una trama de intriga palaciega en la que se suceden los giros inesperados.

Inzwischen kennt Ria den Grund dafür, weshalb ihre eigene Regierung, der "Sphärenbund", sie töten wollte. Aus diesem Wissen ergibt sich eine Gefahr für sie persönlich, aber auch für eine große Zahl anderer Menschen. Trotz aller Widerstände unternimmt Ria alles, um die drohende Katastrophe abzuwenden und das Leben von Clans und Sphärenbewohnern zu schützen. Doch dabei offenbart sich ihr ein Geheimnis, das alles, was sie bisher an Verschwörungen aufgedeckt hat, bei Weitem übertrifft.

Huxleys schöne neue Welt reloaded: Die 24-jährige Mae Holland ist überglücklich. Sie hat einen Job ergattert in der hippsten Firma der Welt, beim "Circle", einem freundlichen Internetkonzern mit Sitz in Kalifornien, der die Geschäftsfelder von Google, Apple, Facebook und Twitter geschluckt hat, indem er alle Kunden mit einer einzigen Internetidentität ausstattet, über die einfach alles abgewickelt werden kann. Mit dem Wegfall der Anonymität im Netz - so ein Ziel der "weisen drei Männer", die den Konzern leiten - wird die Welt eine bessere.

Is it possible for a terrorist group to secretly “weaponize” the most anticipated new electronic video game? And on the night of its nationwide launch, will thousands of unsuspecting kids and their parents be slaughtered? These questions haunt Blair Anderson, the game's distributor; and he alone can possibly uncover the truth and prevent the carnage. But that's only for starters. Anderson' s daughter has been kidnapped and unless he cooperates, she'll be tortured in the worst imaginable way. Blair can save her, or stop the terrorists – not both; and he has scant minutes to decide.