Science Spies

Im letzten Teil der Amazon-Bestseller-Reihe versucht der unfreiwillige Held Marcus Battle, seine Freunde vor dem Zugriff eines gnadenlosen Regimes zu retten. Ein geheimes Schleusernetzwerk, das sich die "Underground Railroad" nennt, soll ihnen helfen, einen sagenumwobenen Zufluchtsort zu erreichen – den Hafen.

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.

It's the year 2027. Extraterrestrials have finally responded to broadcast signals transmitted from Earth. President Elizabeth Schaefer creates a secret alliance with Bretta, a humanistic young female, who is seeking legal asylum for herself and over 200 refugees from another world. Together they must face an ominous galactic danger testing their strategies, strengths, and desires.

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"....

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.

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.

In 1971, Rod Barton applied for a junior scientist role in the Australian Department of Defence. Little did he know what it entailed: As the Cold War intensified, Barton was inducted into the murky world of espionage. This is an extraordinary behind-the-scenes account of a world marked by risk, secrecy and individual acts of courage. The Life of a Spy will introduce you to a man of principle in a time of chaos, and take you to the frontlines of politics and war.

A princess on a mission. A man with secrets. A love that cannot be denied. Ignoring the expectations of her status and sex, Princess Leila Rothchester has spent her life avoiding a future that requires her to marry for political gain. She would rather serve her country in a more active role. When her best friend goes missing under mysterious circumstances, Leila is determined to uncover the truth - a dangerous mission that will take her far from home and immerse her in a world of secrets and intrigue.

East Germany only existed for a short 40 years, but in that time, the country’s secret police, the Stasi, developed a highly successful “church department” that - using persuasion rather than threats - managed to recruit an extraordinary stable of clergy spies. Pastors, professors, seminary students, and even bishops spied on colleagues, other Christians, and anyone else they could report about to their handlers in the Stasi.

This candid and darkly witty memoir recounts an exhilarating life - and a few close brushes with death. With remarkable sangfroid and a humorist's eye for absurdity, H. K. Roy describes his many strange and risky exploits in his long career with the CIA. Whether he was pursuing Soviet and Cuban spies, running "denied area" operations in Eastern Europe, hunting Bosnian War criminals, or providing actionable intelligence to US government and coalition forces in Iraq, Roy usually found himself at the right place at the right time.

In 1965, following his mother's death, Infante returns to Cuba from Brussels, where he is employed as a cultural attaché at the Cuban embassy. When a few days later his permission to return to Europe is revoked, Infante begins a period of suspicion, uncertainty, and disillusion. Unable to leave the country, denied access to party officials, yet still receiving checks for his work in Belgium, Infante discovers the reality of Cuba under Fidel Castro.

From 1941 to 1944, Bignor Manor, a farmhouse in Sussex, provided board and lodging for men and women of the French Resistance before they were flown by moonlight into occupied France. Barbara Bertram, whose husband was a conducting officer for the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), became hostess for these daring agents and their pilots during their brief stopovers in their house.

Asharee lost her family in a monster attack and learned to survive on the streets. It's a hard life, so when she's offered a chance to escape, she decides to look past the reputation of the person offering. Best decision ever. While a house of pleasure might seem like a bad place for a young woman, the truth is Asharee's never been safer. The gradeenas protect their tizanas. And so she learns how to entice, to dance, to seduce with her eyes and a shake of her hips. But what happens later in the privacy of her room...

Civil war looms in the Wheel, hanging over the heads of the voters as everyone wonders whether the Time industry is heading toward another Dispersal. With rumors of a False Zero Hour taking centerstage ahead of the elections, everyone is on high alert. Few understand this better than Tommen as he prepares to go before the Hands for his Apprentice review, knowing that Rifun may be all that stands between him and the vengeful Grandfathers.

In 1912, just months before the election, President Taft dies suddenly, and Teddy Roosevelt wastes no time in grabbing power as he wins another term as president. By force of will, he ushers the United States into a new, progressive era with the help of the Black Chamber, the mysterious spy organization watching his back.

“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.

They thought the truth was buried in classified files and secret islands. Hidden behind power, privilege, and silence. But Russia… leaked it. A firestorm ignites across continents when raw footage surfaces—undeniable proof of crimes no one believed could exist. The world watches in horror as powerful figures are exposed. And at the center of it all? Texas. No longer waiting for permission to speak, a movement rises—not with violence, but with volume. With light. With memory. Ordinary people become archivists of justice, rebuilding a Republic not on vengeance, but on truth.

But once Margaret begins to unravel the secrets of Bletchley Park, Betty finds herself thrust—untrained—into the deadly world of counter-espionage. And as the pair begin a critical game of cat and mouse with each other, the situation rapidly becomes ever more desperate. With a highly dangerous newcomer suddenly arriving on the scene, the fate of Britain's most vital war secret hangs entirely on the outcome of the two women’s deeply personal conflict. But which one of them has really been the cat, and which one the mouse?

Special Agent Sam Jameson doesn’t pay much attention to the crackpots and goofballs with their shrill economic doomsday predictions…until their dire conjecture comes shockingly true. With the global financial system in ruins and a worldwide social meltdown crashing down around her, Sam must win a desperate race to prevent a disastrous consolidation of power into the hands of a shadowy and ruthless international cabal. Will an unrepentant computer hacker's brazen heist and a thin trail of cryptic clues hold the key to Sam’s survival?

When a bomb explodes in the bustling Commonwealth capital city of Salaam, responsibility is quickly claimed by an extremist independence movement. But after a former comrade, an ex-spy with his own agenda, is implicated in the attack, Simon Kovalic and his team of covert operatives are tasked with untangling the threads of a dangerous plot that could have implications on a galactic scale. And the deeper Kovalic digs, the more he'll uncover a maze of secrets, lies, and deception that may force even the most seasoned spy to question his own loyalties.