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"Some of humanity's mightiest engineering achievements are small in scale -- and, without them, the complex machinery on which our modern world runs would not exist. In Nuts and Bolts, structural engineer Roma Agrawal examines seven of these extraordinary elements: the nail, the wheel, the spring, the magnet, the lens, the string, and the pump. Tracing the evolution from Egyptian nails to modern skyscrapers, and Neanderthal string to musical instruments,...
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A techno-thriller novel of the near future when a powerful Artificial Intelligence called Oracle identifies individuals who pose a significant risk to the stability of our society, or who have a high probability of posing such a risk in the future, and sends assassins to kill them. Oracle knows each of us so well, better than we know ourselves, that it is able to determine who might become the next Hitler or Stalin long before that person even has...
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Catalina Saylor ha sido aceptada para trabajar en la incubadora de Qubit a prueba durante 30 días. Si prueba su idea dentro de ese tiempo, se le permitirá quedarse e intentar obtener una patente de su dispositivo. La Incubadora de Qubit es un lugar de trabajo para gente brillante con buenas ideas, pero que no tienen recursos para desarrollarlas.
Si el candidato es aceptado, se le proporcionará un espacio de trabajo, equipo y otros beneficios durante...
4) Daybreak
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Nora Brooks and Randall Goodwin are hot on the trail of a new cyber-terrorist. This time the target is Seattle as well as the lucrative cruise ships docked there. All indications are that daybreak will bring unprecedented destruction.Who was nursing a vendetta against the largest city in the Pacific Northwest as well as the tourist industry?Nora Brooks has dealt with many different kinds of cyber criminals, but she's never come across one whose motive...
5) Cold Wallet
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Newly widowed Jess returns heartbroken from her honeymoon to find she now owns her dead husband's crypto-currency exchange. As a physician, she knows nothing about cryptocurrency and has to rely on Andrew's business partner Henry, a man she never liked, for advice. When the passwords to the Cold Wallets holding the company's assets go missing, the life Jess had so carefully constructed for herself spins out of control.No one is who they seem to be.Trust...
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Clean suspense from USA Today and PW Bestselling author Vannetta Chapman. Four novellas.A multitude of cyber-terrorists.One mission-protecting America. Nora Brooks is the top agent on the Cyber Division team-not because of her coding skills, but because of her passion to catch those bent on destruction. Nora has a unique ability to assess a situation and put her finger on the one thing that doesn't fit, the one person who has an alternate agenda....
7) Zapwired
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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,...
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From Harold Coyle, the New York Times bestselling author of Twice the Citizen, comes the fourth book in the Nathan Dixon series: They Are Soldiers
They are your neighbor and the person who delivers your mail. They teach your children and build your homes. Every day you see them but do not notice them, that is not until they are needed. Only when disasters strike, whether it be natural or man made do they become something quite different, something...
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Martin Alcott, an out of work IT Engineer, can't shake his recurring nightmares of skyscrapers and cathedrals. This morning's dream was different, though: he's now certain he's being watched. Halfway up London's newest high-rise, Martin arrives promptly for his first job interview in weeks, only to find the office empty in more ways than one.
Meanwhile, The Duchess, a powerful and enigmatic woman, sits at her desk high in her tower mansion. A panicked...
10) Post Truth World
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In a world plagued by deglobalization and escalating conflicts between nations, a new threat looms larger than ever, the unstoppable rise of China. Fresh from their triumphant mission of thwarting a medieval Caliphate's attempt to destroy strategic oil reserves, the United Nations Centre for Technology and Culture (UNCTC) team emerges as a motley crew of international misfits, led by their enigmatic, stateless Chinese boss. Their latest adventure...
11) 8 Down
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"An amazing, breath-stealing, knuckle-biting thrill of a ride!"
--Lynette Eason, award-winning, best-selling suspense author
8 bodies down.
8 more lives at stake.
Investigator Carrie Kintz is new blood with the Alaska Bureau of Investigation in Anchorage. But with a serial killer on the loose, there's no easing into the job. It's sink or swim. The only clues to help law enforcement stop this madman are the taunts he drops into crossword puzzles...
12) Gadget
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From an Edgar award winner, this thriller about a physicist forced to make an A-bomb is "a splendid account of the excesses of science and bureaucracy" (The New York Times).
An American physicist working in Hamburg, Jim Hawkins is on his way home from his job at a German nuclear institute when he is rammed off the road and abducted by terrorists. Drugged and taken to a secret location, he wakes to find himself being held hostage alongside his...
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Rogue Agent is an exceptional series debut...' BestThrillers.comOne agent's stellar FBI career, cut short by an operation gone south. His mentor, a bureau legends star continues to rise.A decade later, as the investigation of a missing UN helicopter unfolds, half-truths and lies from long ago, assumed dead and buried, resurface with shocking consequences. One man will risk everything to uncover the truth.Tom Wiseman's old-school investigative brilliance...
14) High Noon
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High NoonCyber Division Series Nora Brooks and Randall Goodwin face their toughest assignment yet as they follow a cyber terrorist into the canyons of Zion National Park. A dozen EMP attacks have been planned to occur on the same day at the same time-high noon. Nora Brooks is going to need all the technical expertise her partner possesses, as well as the rappelling skills of National Park Ranger, Tom Anderson. Together the three might be able to...
15) Midnight Strike
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Midnight StrikeCyber Division Series Terrorists are targeting Dallas, Texas. Nora Brooks and Randall Goodwin have until midnight to stop an unprecedented cyber attack.Who would want to bring about the collapse of the nation's ninth largest city? Nora Brooks has a new partner--Randall Goodwin is young, confident, and a computer genius. When Dallas is hit with a coordinated attack, Nora and Randall board a Naval Jet bound for the Lone Star state. Nora...
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When does a cure become a weapon? Who decides when to take lives or save them? Deep in the tropical rain forest, a doctor discovers a new drug based on a toxin extracted from a rare "death angel" mushroom. It exhibits rapid growth and DNA bonding abilities, making it able to target and eliminate viral and cancerous cells. This cure has been the goal of the good doctor Kipling for his whole life, to find this magical bullet to attack disease. But his...
17) Her Solemn Oath
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Allison Quinn has one mission-to find the person who killed her father.Her job as a senior agent for Homeland Security just might help her do that. A cyber terrorist named Worm has threatened to release an EMP over the Seattle area, collapsing the northwestern communication and transportation sector.Allison has a vendetta to keep and a job to do. She vows to stop the terror attack and, in the process, interrogate Worm about her father's murder. Allison...
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New York Times bestselling author Harold Coyle's Cat and Mouse reveals the chaos of warfare as Islamic terrorists, lead by their most charismatic leader to date, form a powerful coalition in hopes of breaking America's will to continue the war on terror
In the War on Terror, it is often difficult to tell who the enemy is. Sometimes your fiercest opponent isn't an insurgent or a fanatic bent on making a statement in blood, but a chain of command...
19) The Sleeper
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Former soldier Ash Sanders is plagued by violent nightmares. Gunfire. Explosions. Blood. A nameless attacker. In his nightmare, Ash fights off his attacker, killing him. In the morning, he wakes to find his wife lying in bed beside him. Murdered. Ash is about to take the fall for his wife's death until he's exonerated by sleep psychologist Mina Irving. She discovers that Ash has a variation of REM Behavior Disorder called sleep violence and that he...
20) The Requital
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The Requital, a thriller by Bruce Allsman Dr. Avinash Gupta is a billionaire, a domotics pioneer and inventor of ISHANA, Integrated Smart Home and Networked Appliances, a state-of-the-art home automation system. Avinash and his wife, Shayla, live in their new home that is equipped with ISHANA. When unusual things begin to happen, he investigates and discovers that a malicious hacker, Peter Newman, a former employee with an axe to grind, is gradually...
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