Showing results for "The Game" in Technothrillers

Across the globe, five strangers receive a horrifying message from an unknown number. The person you love most is in danger. To save them, each must play The Game—a sinister unknown entity that has a single rule: there can only be one winner. If you lose, your loved one will die. But what is The Game—and why have they been chosen?

The Peripheral by William Gibson is a thrilling audiobook about two intertwined futures, from the bestselling author of Neuromancer In the near future in a broken down rural America, Flynne Fisher scrapes a living as a gamer for rich players. One night, working a game set in a futuristic but...

CIA analyst Jack Ryan, historian and former Marine, is vacationing in London with his wife and young daughter. Suddenly, right before his eyes, a terrorist group launches its deadly attack. Instinctively, Jack dives forward to intervene. By his impulsive act, he gains both the gratitude of a nation and the enmity of its most dangerous men who will not sit on their hate. In an explosive wave of violence, Jack's new enemies will seek to make him pay for his act of salvation...with his life.

An edge-of-your-seat thriller that merges the twists of a psychological-mystery with the investigative layers of a procedural . . . THEY KNOW WHAT YOU DID You receive a call, an email, a text – someone knows your secret and they want to ruin you. AND THEY’RE OUT FOR BLOOD If you don’t do...

When financial prodigy Tyler Rush uncovers a clandestine poker game where the world’s elite resolve disputes beyond the reach of law or markets, he’s drawn into a hidden system of power he never knew existed. Watching him closely is CEO Mike Hayward, a master of institutional influence who sees Tyler as a means to secure control of the Einstein Code—an AI algorithm with the potential to reshape how power itself is exercised.

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War is out now on Prime Video! Tom Clancy reveals Jack Ryan’s origins in this electrifying #1 New York Times bestselling thriller that pits the former Marine turned family man against a vicious group of international terrorists. As an American in London on...

In the newly unified Germany, old horrors are reborn. It is the beginning of Chaos Days, a time when neo-Nazi groups gather to spread violence and resurrect dead dreams. But this year Germany isn't the only target. Plans are afoot to destabilize Europe and cause turmoil throughout the United...

It's been almost a year since the Edenites and Jema took the British Isles on Chandra from the Kaerin. As the Edenites and Jema prepare for the inevitable counterattack, the Kaerin are desperate to develop new capabilities. The High Blood leaders are faced with a choice that could mean their salvation or doom all of Chandra. In desperate need of numbers, the Edenites consider turning to the one place they know they can find help—the spiraling disaster that is Earth. The battle for Chandra's future joins on land, at sea, and in the air.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Dying Game by Asa Avdic, read by Cassandra Campbell, Mark Deakins and Steve West. ‘Oh, it’s really quite simple. I want you to play dead.’ On the remote island of Isola, seven people have been selected to compete in a 48-hour test for a...

When opposition MP Harry Colbey uncovers a corrupt plot between senior government ministers and a big tech organisation intent on enriching its owners, he finds himself the target of a strange form of harassment. His train pass and credit cards won't work, his phone won't get signal and every traffic light he comes to is red. Only his colleague, Esme Kanha, believes him. She's investigating the suspicious death of another anti-corruption MP.

Hal Ashton has spent years developing the most anticipated video game of all time. In TAP - Total Altered Perception - players can live out their fantasies in a fully immersive virtual reality simulation. With the deadline only weeks away, it's the last chance to save his career. But the game...

Deep in the American Heartland, a team of assassins goes to work. In short order, a Chechen scientist and double agent for the US government is dead. But the team didn't exactly finish the job. The man's teenage son is still alive. In possession of crucial and potentially lethal information, he's now on the run - and off the grid.

Meet Guinevere Jones—a woman with a talent for love and trouble—from New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz writing as Jayne Castle. It's hard to keep a small business afloat, just ask Guinevere Jones, owner of a struggling temp agency. And security consultant Zac Justis isn't...

'Like an episode of Black Mirror written by Stephen King' John Marrs, bestselling author of The One 'Immersive, claustrophobic . . . addictive' Guardian Win and All Your Dreams Come True! ;) Charlie and his friends have entered the God Game. Tasks are delivered through their phones. When they...

What if it were possible to upload years of knowledge into your mind in hours? To become an expert in multiple scientific fields, become an MD, or learn several languages - in a single day? The benefit to humanity would be immense. But so would the danger.... Rachel Howard is a brilliant neuroscientist trying to make this capability a reality. But when she crosses paths with Kevin Quinn, a Secret Service agent desperately trying to kill the president, she finds herself at the epicenter of an insidious plot.

Best friends Cleo and Rachel spend their evenings pretending to be people they're not, inventing elaborate stories to escape the monotony of their real lives. It's all harmless fun—until they play the game on the wrong person. Five years later, Cleo is still struggling to come to terms with the night that destroyed her friendship with Rachel and almost cost them their lives. And then she receives a text: Rachel is missing. Have you seen her? 

SPY GAMES: a rollercoaster of global espionage, suspense, seduction, and technological innovations. A 22nd century James Bond adventure, with a bold new twist. Spies are beautiful women who “burn hot”, and they want our hero (Bill Bailey) from 2017. He and his Android friend (Griffin) are building a clandestine Cyber Dome, and they can telepathically communicate and access human memories. China wants their secrets.

A blockbuster, near-future science fiction thriller, S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game introduces a math-genius mercenary who finds herself being manipulated by someone possessing unimaginable power… Cas Russell is good at math. Scary good. The vector calculus blazing through her head lets her smash...

"Smart, propulsive and gripping, THE GOD GAME is an ambitious thriller and a terrifying examination of what could--and probably already is--happening in the world of artificial intelligence."—Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Run Away You are invited! Come inside and play...

Virtual Reality was once just a dream, but now it's a trending technological advancement that has completely changed our world. Gamers rejoice as a company called Gate releases one of their new products. The company is well known for its massive VRMMORPG's and many other technological advancements. This time they are up to something different. The company now seeks to employ players in the VR space and fully submerge them for an extended period of time. The joy of the players that signed up to work for the company quickly turns to terror.