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81) Surveillance
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A ruthless online activist group called Kittehsaurus Rox has hacked into top-secret Cabinet information and gone public with it, creating widespread panic and embarrassing a government that will stop at nothing to hunt down "KSR." Journalist and cyber-expert Kat Sharpe is chosen by KSR to break news of their operations, and overnight she becomes the media sensation she has always longed to be. But as she gets closer to KSR and its circle of supporters,...
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Freddie Lima is a technical unicorn who has worked as a Software Engineer, Systems Engineer, and Security Engineer with over 30 years of technology experience. Freddie's wife Ginger is the CEO of the company they co-own, All Things Operations (ATO). In "Growing Future Operators," Freddie shares his professional experiences through fiction.
Jack Whitaker is a technology curmudgeon who prides himself on teaching the classics. He has a great reputation...
83) Social Murder
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"Ronni's mind fell completely silent. She stopped being aware of the room around her, there was only the hateful figure of a bully and an abuser ahead of her, all else was a blur."
You're in a strange city. Your friend is missing. Could you find the courage to do what is necessary? Would you even know where to start?
These are the questions faced by law graduate Ronni Wong when her friend Jenny disappears after a date with a man she met online....
84) Neural Web
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From New York Times and USA Today bestseller Dima Zales comes the highly anticipated conclusion to the Human++ trilogy
It's been four and a half years since my friends and I revolutionized the world with our Brainocyte technology. I have a beautiful wife, a genius son, and more money than I know what to do with. My current problem? Not everyone appreciates the brave new world we've built. With enemies where I can least expect them, our life-saving...
85) Point of Impact
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"The glimpses of aerial combat are brilliant" in this pulse-pounding RAF thriller, where it could be pilot error-or a sinister plot. (The Daily Telegraph).
They're supposed to be routine missions-but one by one, RAF Tempests are crashing in the midst of them. No one knows why, and the Accident Investigation Bureau is blaming pilot error.
Suspicious of a cover-up, Flight Lieutenant Drew Miller, whose own friends have been among the fatalities,...
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A thought-provoking new short story from the acclaimed author of Zero Day and Trojan Horse.
Challenging Anonymous is like waving a red flag in front of a bull. But the CEO of a major investment firm has done just that, and now cyber security expert Jeff Aiken has to try to protect the company from its leader's mistakes. The timing couldn't be worse, as Jeff is scheduled to appear at a conference that has invited an Anonymous representative as well....
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In a derelict squat, the Smart Man watches as the new narcotic developed by his shadowy organisation wreaks havoc on it, unsuspecting victims. The drug is now ready for sale on their exclusive darknet marketplace. Elsewhere, DCI Robert Smith, the retired head of the Cyber Crimes Unit, seeks out crime boss Curtis Slater at his remote farm. He offers to provide Slater with information in exchange for money. But, what information is he offering? Meanwhile,...
88) First Colony
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CRASHING IS THE EASY PARTBOOK ONE OF THREE It's been more than a century since humanity escaped the overpopulation of Earth, expanding out among the stars. We've faced and overcome war with an alien race. We've survived terrorist attacks meant to end colonization. We've thrived despite unregulated class distinctions, separating the wealthy from the working class.
What comes next may be the end of it all.
A lone colony of human castaways, led by...
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Jay Wilson and Jenni Delacroix are on the run from the mob after narrowly dodging a car bomb, but Kaylee, the new boss, won't stop until they're dead. She has elite hacking skills and digital eyes everywhere, so going off the grid is the only way to survive.
Hiding in the secluded forests of northern Minnesota was retired detective Ted Stone's idea -- he saved them once before, and they're counting on his instincts again. It's a shock when their...
90) Networked
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Video game designers Nick and Dan find their half-finished project suddenly replaced with a game that is finished – and brilliant. Soon players everywhere find themselves immersed in an incredible new virtual world. But events in the game become increasingly sinister, taking over the lives of players and blurring the lines with reality.
As Nick's life is thrown into turmoil, he fears for his friend Dan, and his wife Lily, and he finds himself increasingly...
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What is the result when there is a breakdown of societal norms?
Does morality survive when religion is marginalized and immediate gratification is embraced?
Does the lack of training and education of a countries history and culture result in large groups of citizens no longer recognizing right or wrong?
When shocking headlines of crime and violence become routine and governments are overwhelmed, who do the people turn to?
When the violence...
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It's never quite dark on the Street of Eyes, but the shadows there grow large and deep. You go to find a job. There's no telling if you'll be coming back.
Street is a Science Fiction trilogy set on a future Earth not so different from the one we know. Even in a world bursting with technology, there's still violence, vice, and oppression. Freelance telepath Gina Hart lives this reality every day on the bottom rung of society. Only, for her, it's about...
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Mac Savage, a former CIA officer; Marie Kovacs, a former nanotechnology scientist turned missionary; and Kate Chavez, a Texas Ranger investigating a murder, join forces to unravel a global conspiracy that starts with the diamond industry and ends with a plan to eliminate the human race.
The Donovan Group, a high-powered global conglomerate, has used diamond-based technology to create an overarching artificial intelligence, known as ANNE. Using spyware...
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A stunning collection of stories based on true-life cyber vulnerabilities, presented in two parts
Here be Dragons. In the Age of Discovery, unexplored areas of a map were often marked with this warning. Today, such a warning could easily be applied to the internet. Hackers and cyber assassins present a constant threat to individuals, companies, and institutions.
Protecting these targets requires a new kind of warrior, a cyber-knight armed with the...
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It's Watergate. On servers. On the eve of the presidential election, a conspiracy threatens to alter the outcome of the vote-and the future of American politics. At the heart of the plot is a powerful computer program, aimed at rooting out hypocrisy among politicians to expose their truths... and ours. Left to unravel the conspiracy is a bitter, hotheaded former journalist, but he's just not sure he cares enough to get to the bottom of it.
96) Kicking Tin
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Get out of here,' ordered the Mexican. 'All of you,' and he motioned them away with his cocked pistol.
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How does a video on YouTube go viral? What would it be like to experience that? Or, what would it be like become a YouTube and internet sensation? Well, in 'adventures in cyberland', not only is this modern-day new phenomenon experienced by the reader, but also shows them the power of group creativity and working together as a team, regardless of what background and worldviews each roommate comes from.
And with this established in the first part...
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The fate of the United States hangs in the balance and only a select few can prevent the impending disaster. Stanley Carmichael is an intelligent and hard-working member of the Central Intelligence Agency. Yet, he never expected to be named Deputy Director of the CIA so soon in his career. Nonetheless, he finds himself stepping into shoes that feel impossible to fill. Anna Carmichael is a legend. She's one of the fiercest ex-members of the Special...
99) The Last Hope
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To prove his innocence, she'll have to believe the impossible.
Officer Kate Murphy's uncle is like a father to her. When he's arrested for murder, she's his only hope. After a few off-the-record conversations with Luke, an awkwardly attractive forensic technician, Kate knows something doesn't add up. And when a host of politicians and homeless people begin to die all over the Northeast, Kate suspects they're somehow connected to her uncle's case.
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John "JP" Hancock's day just got a whole lot worse. After a nasty breakup and being scammed into an acting job that doesn't exist, JP suddenly finds himself the unwitting victim of an identity theft that has police detective Nya Grey hot on his heels for multimillion-dollar real estate fraud he didn't commit.
With the police closing in, JP finds an unlikely ally in the Vindicator, a secretive and brilliant hacker who agrees to help clear his name...
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