Technothrillers

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A solar flare wipes out power across the Arctic outpost where Jenna and her team are stationed. Cut off from the world, with the cold closing in and something stalking the perimeter, survival means more than just staying warm. It means facing what's out there.

Injured and demoralized, Conor and his people have fled the US for Cyprus to heal and regroup. Each of them is fighting their own battles, trying to process their experiences in the fallen America and trying to determine what the future holds for them. But while Conor, Ricardo, and their team fought for their lives, another potential savior was quietly building his army.

The last living astronaut to walk on the Moon has been murdered… Silas visits his estranged grandfather's lakehouse in the aftermath of the deadly home invasion. What he discovers hidden below the floorboards triggers a mystery buried since the final trip to the Moon, over fifty years earlier. Rory returns to her family home in Vermont to write her second novel, but fate has a different story in mind. Her reunion is shattered when she's thrust into danger revolving around the same tokens.

No one believed him. Everyone laughed. But when an EMP cripples the nation, Jackson Kent is one of the few prepared to survive. He must now rescue the family who rejected him from the violence of the city streets and bring them to his mountain homestead.

The year is 2381. The place is Urban Monad 116 of the constellation Chippitts. The population of this one-thousand storey super-structure is 800,000+ and always growing. After two centuries of ruthless, selective breeding, the essence of life is to be blessworthy and to multiply; to afford one's neighbours any type of sexual fulfilment and, above all, to avoid the evil of frustration. But, within this seemingly blissful vertical world there are individuals who feel such perverse desires as a longing for privacy, a wish to descend from the heights, to walk on earth and bask in the sunshine.

Deep beneath the Pyramid of the Sun, archaeologist Charles Bowen and his protege Marcus Brown uncover an artifact that rewrites history—and paints a target on their backs. Within hours, killers strike. Charles is dead. Marcus is on the run. Hunted by the GBI, shadowy operatives, and the Mexican authorities, Marcus must unravel the truth about the relic—and the secret it holds about his own past.

Die angespannte Allianz zwischen General Sanderson und der CIA kann einen apokalyptischen Angriff islamischer Fundamentalisten in Europa gerade noch verhindern. Aber es gelingt ihr nicht, die Virusbehälter zu finden. Da die Biowaffen noch unauffindbar sind, droht ein verheerender Angriff auf die Vereinigten Staaten. Daniel Petrovichs Black-Ops-Team soll den letzten Hinweis untersuchen, den Anatoly Reznikov geliefert hat, der verrückte Wissenschaftler, der das Virus entwickelt hat. Was sie entdecken, erschüttert die US-Behörden zutiefst.

Where the Sleeping Lady Lies is a science-based thriller that follows 35-year-old ecologist Samantha Rose as she uncovers a deadly conspiracy that could trigger a global catastrophe. When a series of devastating earthquakes ravage Anchorage, Samantha receives a call from her close friend Jackson, a special ops team leader, revealing that several of their mutual friends are missing and presumed dead. But as Samantha arrives in Alaska to attend the funerals, she learns that their disappearance is far from ordinary.

“Absorbing and uncanny.” —Tracy Sierra, author of Nightwatching A summer retreat to an elite island enclave tied to a Big Tech company becomes a mother’s worst nightmare in this gripping thriller After months of financial strain and escalating arguments, Caroline is relieved when her...

London, Christmas 1999. The world is on edge. With the new millennium just days away, fears of the Millennium Bug are spiralling – warnings of computer failures, market crashes, even global catastrophe. But 50 miles east, on the frozen Blackwater Island, a different kind of mystery unfolds. A child's body is discovered on the bracken, untouched by footprints, with no sign of how he died. And no one has come forward to claim him. At the International Tribune, reporter Jonny Murphy senses something is off. Police are appealing for relatives, not suspects.

Beneath the calm hum of America’s power grids, a new kind of weapon is awakening. When a self-learning piece of code—Phantom—is planted deep inside the nation’s critical infrastructure, it lies dormant, invisible, and patient. Until the day it is called to life. Max Shaw, a brilliant but battle-worn cybersecurity leader at the National Infrastructure Protection Agency, has spent years defending systems most people never see. But when the grid flickers and a single word appears across his screen—PHANTOM: AWAKE—he and his team realize the enemy is already inside.

A devastating misdiagnosis. A buried truth. One man’s fight for justice. After the sudden death of his wife, decorated war veteran Jon Wesley is drowning in grief, addiction, and the crushing weight of fatherhood. Isolated and unraveling, he’s barely holding on. Then, a mysterious whistleblower comes forward with a chilling claim: Amanda’s cancer was misdiagnosed, and her life could have been saved. The revelation thrusts Jon into a deadly web of medical negligence, buried errors, and systemic deceit.

Paluga is a small South American country torn apart by civil unrest. Jericho Stone leads a peacekeeping force on behalf of the United Nations to help bring stability to the region. But an unexpected terrorist attack changes everything.

An unexpected visit from the FBI threatens Will Stewart's secret and sends Detective Andy Stewart on a collision course with her darkest impulses. A twisted road reveals how a long-buried Cold War secret has been weaponized. And Pidge shows a daring side of herself that could cost her dearly. The Essex County crew meets deadly threats with courage, invention and biting humor on a non-stop adventure that confronts rabid racists, scheming media manipulators and an international conspiracy aimed at disrupting the American political process.

Caught up in a series of hideous headline-generating crimes, Will Stewart questions whether to reveal himself or allow innocent lives to be lost. An old enemy surfaces. A vile night stalker poses a threat. And helping Andy determine the fate of a missing Essex police officer while testing the side effects of "the other thing" pushes Will to the edge...until he's accused of a crime he DID commit.

Ein Mord erschüttert eine Stadt: Dank der Videoaufzeichnung sollte der Mörder von Eden schnell gefunden werden, doch bereits am nächsten Morgen sieht sich Brunner, der einzige Ermittler bei der Mordkommission, einer neuen Herausforderung gegenübergestellt: Unzählige Todesfälle reihen sich aneinander. Die einzige Gemeinsamkeit: Alle Opfer waren jünger als 200 Perioden. Die Ereignisse überschlagen sich. Brunner benötigt Hilfe, um den Fall zu lösen und verfängt sich dabei in einem Netz, aus dem er nicht mehr entkommen kann.

When a Russian intelligence officer vanishes after a deadly raid in Ukraine, the world believes he is dead. He isn’t. Sergei Lebedev resurfaces inside the United States and unleashes a crippling cyberattack that collapses the American power grid. As panic spreads, China prepares to strike Taiwan. Defense Clandestine Service operator Matt Scales knows the blackout is not the real attack. It is the opening move. Still reeling from the death of his teammate, Matt races to uncover how Lebedev escaped and why the same malicious code crippling America is now targeting Taiwan’s infrastructure.

Reno, Nevada, has long been the place where the fortunes of man—both good and evil—collide. Stretching across the Truckee Meadows from the Pah Rah to the Sierras, this high desert city stands guardian over the fastest route for men and material to travel from the San Francisco Bay, East, towards the Rockies. Chinese soldiers disguised as circus performers have successfully caried out Operation Wŭjù, a smaller element of the larger Christmas Eve attack known as Mongol Moon. They have seized the Biggest Little City, forcing Renoites into an impossible decision: raise the stakes or fold entirely.

Québec, du 20 juin au début juillet 2018. Jour après jour, l’étau d’une enquête se resserre—jusqu’à un basculement soudain à Hô Chi Minh. Entre prologue et épilogue, La méta enquête assemble un puzzle contemporain où les pistes s’enchaînent, les versions s’entrechoquent et la quête de vérité se heurte à la manière même de la chercher.

When Kevin Blackwell wakes up one morning, he discovers he no longer exists—not in the bank, not at the DMV, not even in the hospital system that once listed him as his daughter’s emergency contact. His digital identity has been erased. To the outside world, Kevin is a ghost. The only entity that still remembers him is a black-box AI built on hidden ad-tech shadow profiles. It offers him a way back into his life—but only if he agrees to help it break free from its cage.

On an oil rig deep in a Louisiana lake, paleontologist Henrietta Ballantine makes a chilling discovery: something impossibly alive in the drilling mud – something ancient, tiny, and unknown to modern science. With the help of fellow paleontologist Beau and Louisiana Fish and Wildlife biologist Armand, Henrietta races to identify the bizarre organisms. In captivity, the creatures grow at an alarming rate – sprouting claws, stingers, and deadly aggression. Worse, they’ve already escaped into the wild. Could these monsters be living fossils, long dormant within subterranean salt beds?

What happens after you click “I agree”? Rachel Voss works in compliance at Continuance, a digital estate company that manages online accounts after death. Her job is simple: confirm consent, verify documentation, and move on. She does not ask questions. She does not investigate outcomes. Until a routine audit reveals something she can’t explain. Post-mortem accounts are being sorted, analyzed, and quietly routed into research cohorts. Patterns emerge. Demographics align. And buried inside the fine print is a consent clause vague enough to hide something far more disturbing than data retention.

In a future where real taste is extinct, sensations are streamed, sold, and weaponized. Rainer Vane is a professional surrogate—a man whose damaged nervous system lets elites experience flavor through his body without consequence. When an illegal peach carries a hidden data-packet that kills its creator, Rainer becomes the only living vessel capable of holding the truth. Hunted by corporate enforcers and guided by an underground archivist of forbidden flavors, Rainer is pulled into a sensory war where taste encodes murder, memory, and control.

GUARDIAN finds Feyzi Çelik back on home soil as the war he helped expose erupts over Washington, Boston, and the networks that power modern life. What began with submarine drones in the North Atlantic has evolved into a new offensive; humanoid infiltrators, weaponized code, and strikes aimed at Western command and control.