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Im Jahr 2045 ist das Zeitalter der Technik Geschichte; die biologische Moderne ist angebrochen. Algen und Pilze bauen Autogehäuse, die Boomstädte Asiens werden nachts von Leuchtbäumen erhellt. Auch vor dem menschlichen Körper macht die Bio-Revolution nicht halt. Jeder will hochgezüchtete Designer-Babies, ob legal oder nicht. Die Zeche zahlen andere.

They hacked their minds. Now someone wants to delete them. Jack and Luke Glasser should have disappeared after the Greenleaf job. Instead, they became a glitch in the system—two brothers with untraceable neural abilities and too much knowledge of how the world really works. Jack’s mind, once his greatest weapon, is beginning to splinter. Every acceleration burns a little more of him away. Luke’s psychic bond with his brother is fraying, haunted by Jack’s memories and nightmares that aren’t his own. And when a murdered virologist reopens a case buried by the U. S.

Sergeant Maggie Thompson of the Massachusetts State Police is assigned to investigate a dead body, wrapped in blue lab-grade plastic, that is found in a state park near Boston. Soon Maggie discovers that the victim worked at a nearby biotechnology company, which just happens to be where Maggie’s estranged half-brother Benny works. Before long Maggie is undercover as Benny’s assistant.

Peter Bell the Third, accidentally named from the title of a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, is called upon to renew his old friendship with Rowland Usher, who was deliberately named after the protagonist of a story by Edgar Allan Poe. In the new House of Usher that Rowland is building in the Orinoco Delta, Usher explains the scientific work in genetics that he's doing there to Peter, while they both mourn Rowland's dead twin sister, Magdalen, who has apparently committed suicide for reasons that no one quite understands.

Inspiré de faits réels, ce thriller vous plongera dans les rêves les plus fous des dirigeants de la Silicon Valley ! "Impossible de poser ce livre. Haletant jusqu'à la fin, toujours surprenant et vraiment addictif !" Camille, Libraire. Eileen vit en Californie. Elle est infirmière. Son mari, Brad, est un policier affabulateur et violent qui la bat depuis des années. Alors quand il est criblé de balles en service et retrouvé mourant, Eileen se rend à son chevet en étant secrètement soulagée : son calvaire touche peut-être à sa fin.