Science Spies

Two years into the new administration and the country seems headed toward self-destruction. Immeasurable unemployment, intermittent food supplies, environmental toxicity, and over-reaching surveillance of the general population are just some of the challenges. Billionaires run the country, and they have but one goal: to increase their wealth. The less fortunate are of no concern to them.

Step into a world of shadow diplomacy, double agents, and nuclear tension in this riveting exploration of the Cold War era. In The Cold War Files, acclaimed historian and bestselling author Isabella Hayes delivers a powerful narrative of one of the most dangerous and defining periods in modern history. From the chilling silence of spy tunnels beneath Berlin to the nerve-wracking hours of the Cuban Missile Crisis, this audiobook brings to life the hidden battles, betrayals, and global maneuverings that shaped the post-war world.

I’ve dreamed of attending Spellcasters Spy Academy for as long as I can remember. But as it turns out, it’s not the academic utopia I imagined. This place is dangerous as hell. And I don’t mean the classes. They say the students in the Culling year, my year, are cursed. Someone is picking us off. Or maybe something.

Henry Stasik, an Internal Affairs agent for the globe-spanning Coalition, is no stranger to crooked agents or scandals. He's a truth-junkie. An addict. But when international celebrity Anastasia Danicheva specifically demands his presence at a police station, everything changes. The Coalition, which has brought peace through uniting the world under a single banner, wants her dead. But none of their case against her adds up.

С чего все начиналось. Год 2049-й, Вашингтон, округ Колумбия. Пол Турман, сенатор, приглашает молодого конгрессмена Дональда Кини, архитектора по образованию, для участия в специальном проекте под условным названием КЛУ (Комплекс по локализации и утилизации). Суть проекта — создание подземного хранилища для ядерных и токсичных отходов, а Дональду поручается спроектировать бункер-укрытие для обслуживающего персонала объекта. Год 2052-й , округ Фултон, штат Джорджия. Проект завершен. И словно бы как кульминация к его завершению, Америку накрывает серия ядерных ударов.

Kristie Macrakis combines a storyteller's sense of drama with a historian's respect for evidence in this pause-resisting history of intrigue and espionage, love and war, magic and secrecy. From the piazzas of ancient Rome to the spy capitals of the Cold War, Macrakis' global history reveals the drama and importance of invisible ink. From Ovid's advice to use milk for illicit love notes, to al-Qaeda's hidden instructions in pornographic movies, this book presents stories of secret messaging that chart its evolution in sophistication and its impact on history.

Seeing the future new novel focuses on premonitions and terrorism in near future New York City, NY - Sometime in the near future, a new age movement makes telepathy and telekinesis real world possibilities, and a reporter experiences one of these psychic powers. He is then thrust into a secret plot that threatens all humanity in the new novel, Rasputin’s Nephew: A new age thriller by Marc J. Seifer. Rasputin’s Nephew takes the listener into the not-so-distant future, where terrorism threatens the nation and premonition is reality.

The world is in harmony, and humanity’s light shines bright. But is there more at play than what can be seen? And what will be The Protector’s role now that Earth has shown it has no use for the age-old superbeing? The sadistic global terrorist collective, Al Nadir, is gone. World leaders have joined together in Freedom Earth. Religious heads have put aside their differences. The Balance is in equilibrium. Cheap energy is available for everyone. This should be a time of peace. But The Protector isn’t so sure.

In wessen Händen liegt unsere Zukunft? Das Jahr 2029, die Klimakatastrophe ist da, und die Menschheit kämpft ums Überleben. Die Klima-Allianz, ein Bündnis der großen Machtblöcke, will Chaos und Hungerkriege verhindern. Ihr wichtigstes Instrument: ein Supercomputer. Doch dann fällt dieser Quantencomputer in die Hände eines ebenso brillanten wie besessenen Verbrechers. Und plötzlich sind da nur noch zwei Menschen, die das Allerschlimmste verhindern müssen - Thomas Pierpaoli, ein kleiner Beamter, und Ariadna, eine temperamentvolle Millionärin.

No one could have prepared Sage and Tehl for the ruin the Warlord would wreak on the world to get to Aermia. Sage thought she knew how to play his deadly games, but his warped crimes prove she's out of her depth. To dethrone the demon, she enlists the help of her former enemies. A spy with ulterior motives. A monarch known for wicked crimes. A traitor with ties to a dark, twisted past. A Sirenidae intent on gaining her freedom. A dragon thirsty for vengeance.

When Imran Awan, an IT aide for Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), was arrested by the FBI as he tried to fly away to Pakistan, the media didn’t know what to make of the story. Was this just a bank fraud case or something more? Why was this team of congressional IT administrators paid chief-of-staff-level salaries? Why did they provide fraudulent data to Capitol Police? How had they evaded background checks?

Students and enthusiasts of American history are familiar with the Revolutionary War spies Nathan Hale and Benedict Arnold, but few studies have closely examined the wider intelligence efforts that enabled the colonies to gain their independence. Spies, Patriots, and Traitors provides readers with a fascinating, well-documented, and highly readable account of American intelligence activities during the era of the Revolutionary War, from 1765 to 1783.

Already infamous for the arbitrary, paranoid persecution of its own citizens throughout much of the 20th century, the Soviet Union - as is revealed in John Koeher’s revelatory, eye-opening exposé - also waged a vicious espionage campaign against the Catholic Church and its followers. From the persecution of local priests to an assassination order against Pope John Paul II, the KGB viewed Catholicism as a threat to stability in Eastern Europe and treated the church as an enemy of the State. Lifetime journalist and former U.S. Army Intelligence Officer John Koehler has written the definitive book on this startling history.

“A republic, if you can keep it.” Those were Benjamin Franklin’s words following the Constitutional Convention of 1787, when asked what system of government the new America would follow. Unfurled is a futuristic novel which takes place in the United States following the collapse of the federal government. After decades of political stagnation, division among Americans, and the disconnect between the governed and those elected, America is forced to rebuild itself in the wake of total capitulation.

After the fall of France in the mid-1940s, Adolf Hitler faced a British Empire that refused to negotiate for peace. With total war looming, he ordered the Abwehr, Germany's defense and intelligence organization, to carry out Operation Lena - a program to place information-gathering spies within Britain. Quickly, a network of secret agents spread within the United Kingdom and across the British Empire. The stunning truth, though, was that every last one of these German spies had been captured and turned by the British.

A startling and powerful journey to the very core of India's illegal bookmaking industry that exposes the scale of corruption and the match-fixing that now runs rife throughout world cricket. For several years Ed Hawkins made friends with India's illegal bookmakers - men who boast turnover of hundreds of millions of dollars per cricket match - as well as the corruption officers of the International Cricket Council who are trying to shut them down. It's a shady world and rumours abound. But then Hawkins receives a message that changes everything and he decides it is time to expose the truth behind match-fixing.

1988 South Africa teeters on the edge of a state of emergency. Seventeen-year-old Bradley Steyn crosses Pretoria’s Strijdom Square and walks straight into a massacre. Barend Strydom, the notorious white supremacist ‘Wit Wolf’, is mowing down black bystanders relaxing in the square during their lunch break. Bradley cradles a dying man in his arms and, later, with reports of eight dead and sixteen seriously injured, he is brought face to face with the insanity of the nation.

Marina is born of privilege. Her mother, Sveta, is the Soviet Union’s prima ballerina; an international star handpicked by the regime. But Sveta is afflicted with a mysterious second sight and becomes obsessed with exposing a horrific state secret. Then she disappears. Fearing for their lives, Marina and her father defect to Brooklyn. Marina struggles to reestablish herself as a dancer at the American School of Ballet. But her enigmatic partner, Sergei, makes concentration almost impossible, as does the fact that Marina shares her mother’s "gift"....

Chapter one in book one of the groundbreaking Lightning Brain action-adventure series that extrapolates the latest science, political intrigue, and contemporary lifestyles while tracing the twists and turns in the life of Electra “Kit” Kittner. She grows up in a frightened, intolerant America threatened by “Techno-Plague” and Middle East terrorism. The action builds relentlessly, from lighter childhood adventures to darker realities caused by America’s threats that are exacerbated by a harsh government that would treat her badly if it were to discover what she is.

1952: 12 Jahre ist es her, dass England sich Nazi-Deutschland unterworfen hat. Während der Große Krieg zwischen Deutschland und Russland weiter tobt, befinden sich die Engländer unter deutscher Besatzung. Presse, Radio, Fernsehen und die Gerichte werden kontrolliert, die britischen Juden sehen sich immer größeren Repressalien ausgesetzt. Churchill organisiert im Untergrund seine Widerstandsbewegung. Während sich die Gerüchte mehren, dass der Widerstand einen großen Gegenschlag plant, wird Sarah Fitzgerald, die Frau eines Spions, in die Welt der Widerständler hineingezogen.