Showing results for "The King" in Technothrillers

'A literary superthriller' NEW YORK TIMES - and major TV series THE TWELVE Death-row prisoners with nightmare pasts and no future. THE TWELVE Until they were selected for a secret experiment. THE TWELVE To create something more than human. THE TWELVE Now they are the future and humanity's worst...

Maxx King is a former Army Ranger turned cybercrime investigator trying to get his life back on track when he has an unexpected confrontation with a ruthless Chinese spy. Struggling to understand the escalating violence, he discovers a clandestine US-China conflict centered around a device of unknown origins with the power to trigger massive natural disasters.

In the heart of a rain-slicked St. Louis, a new kind of intelligence is waking up… and it is learning from our most intimate conversations. Artie Penhaligon is a brilliant Washington University dropout with a shattered academic career and a low-level job repairing cracked smartphone screens in a University City basement. He’s a man who understands the "why" of broken things, but his own life is a series of disconnected circuits.

A cyber attack on a small South American country, that almost cripple it's economy. But intervention from a retired M. I. T professor and Cybersecurity specialist, leads to worldwide hunt that eventually brought the hackers to justice.

When the machines stop calculating and start dreaming, who will write their gods? San José, 2032. The city of the future is perfect, frictionless, and governed by OMNIS: an ambient artificial intelligence that doesn't just process data; it predicts human desire. But beneath the glistening glass towers of Silicon Valley, a ghost is waking up in the machine. Dr. Alan Wexley, a philosopher-turned-engineer, has discovered something OMNIS was never taught: mythology.

They say there’s no honor among thieves. But for USC professor Morgan Abbott and his crew of former students, loyalty used to mean everything—until it didn’t. Under the cover of academia, Morgan runs a covert criminal ring built on strategy, precision, and trust. But when two of his most promising protégés—Mark and Amanda—go rogue and target the group's secret stash, the crew begins to implode from the inside. Betrayal breeds paranoia. Friends become enemies. And with the Rodney King riots looming over 1992 Los Angeles, the city isn’t the only thing ready to explode.

Set against the backdrop of real-world cyberwarfare, refugee crises, and global surveillance, The King’s Hacker is a haunting origin story about morality in the digital age—a modern spy novel written in the tradition of John le Carré and Stieg Larsson, where every signal tells a human story and every keystroke leaves a ghost.

At Hawthorne University, a group of brilliant and rebellious students create an AI so convincing that it fools everyone—except it’s not an AI at all. It’s them. By secretly posing as an advanced large language model, they outmaneuver professors, manipulate systems, and rewrite the rules of power on campus. Their goal? To prove that human intelligence, when applied the right way, can be just as unpredictable, persuasive, and dangerous as artificial intelligence.

At one of the most advanced hospitals in the country, a revolutionary AI system called VARIANT is changing the face of radiology. Trained on vast troves of clinical data, it promises near-perfect diagnoses, lower costs, and faster care. To hospital leadership, it’s a miracle. To the public, it’s the future. But beneath the surface, something isn’t right. A veteran radiology technician begins noticing discrepancies—scans that don’t match symptoms, metadata that doesn’t line up, patients who deteriorate despite clean reports.

In the explosive finale of the Maxx King trilogy, former Army Ranger Maxx King, a cybersecurity expert, faces a conspiracy that could end humanity. From Seattle’s secret labs to Beijing’s frenetic streets and Afghanistan’s war-torn mountains, Maxx and his team of allies—fierce Gabby, steadfast Andres, and loyal Glen—hunt a rogue ex-DARPA scientist, traitor CIA operatives, and an Iranian physicist wielding technology that could trigger chaos on a cataclysmic scale.

The author of five bestselling novels, including Under Cover of Darkness and The Pardon, James Grippando writes compulsively readable thrillers that could be drawn from today's headlines, only better. Now his trademark gifts are wonderfully demonstrated in a taut new tale of intrigue that will...

Dive with Olivia Newton, one last time, into a suspenseful world of butting danger, where the next target could just be lounging on a beach in Brazil, sipping on coconut water. A world of assassins, cults, and Orders. A world of old and forgotten treasures that won’t stay hidden. Every ounce of gold could cost its possessor their life, and allies switch sides as fast as day turns to a cold, wicked night.

The Search for King Midas' Tomb thrusts you into an exhilarating adventure where history meets suspense. Follow the daring archaeologists Mark Lockheed, Kathy Rollins and their team of experts as they decode ancient texts and navigate through treacherous terrain, from the bustling streets of the Caribbean Islands to the bottom of the sea. Their quest? To uncover the final resting place of Midas and the mysteries it holds.

Billionaire explorer David Purdue is tasked with returning a stolen religious relic to its rightful place to avoid a prison sentence, forcing him to return to Ethiopia. The tribunal in charge of his case allows him to take a handful of people with him on the expedition, two of which happen to be investigative journalist Sam Cleave and historian Dr. Nina Gould. Meanwhile, in Egypt, two astronomers from an ancient order notice a sinister shift in the heavens, marking the advent of cataclysm.

Dragons, monsters, and stranded aliens. Dr. Anthony Kennan is a renowned astrophysicist and master player in the King of Gems video simulation game. But will his knowledge and skills be enough when he encounters the Chandrans, alien beings who have been trapped in the game? This story by Jim Cronin combines the best of both science fiction and fantasy worlds where Star Trek meets Dungeons and Dragons meets Ready Player One in a new and epic science fiction novel.

Two years out of law school, Nick Rey is already on the fast track at a hot Miami law firm. But his dreams of success are overshadowed when his father, Matthew, is abducted on a business trip to Colombia. The guerillas demand an impossible $3 million ransom, the exact sum Matthew insurance...

The blistering sequel to The Ascendant: An action-packed thriller starring a bond trader turned antihero. Unlikely patriot Garrett Reilly can identify threats against America from both inside and outside the nation’s borders. But now the whole world’s economy is at risk… Garrett Reilly...

Ethan, Noah, and Jake are just your average Southern California sophomores—obsessed with role-playing games, 90s pop culture, and Reddit rabbit holes about the Mandela Effect. But when a familiar face starts turning up in beloved old shows and movies—someone who was never there before—the boys begin to suspect that something is seriously wrong with the past.

The price of his son's life...is just a few enhanced memories. Eddie Dowler's 12-year-old son is dying. There are treatments available, but none he can afford. His son is going to die simply because he isn't rich. And then his doctor offers a ray of hope. There's a way to pay for his son's procedure. An unorthodox way. And so Eddie calls Nostalgia Inc, an advertising agency unlike any he's ever known. He soon learns that the price of his son's impossibly expensive operation...is merely a handful of tweaked memories.

In a future where all the adults have mysteriously disappeared, gangs of children live brutal lives as scavengers. In this cyberpunk urban thriller, Flip and his friends explore the swamps that surround their ghost town, find unimaginable treasures, and fall prey to a vicious predator who tests their fragile friendships. High-tech weapons that paralyze, underground parking garages run by AIs, and biologic weapons thirsty for human blood set the stage for this sci-fi novelette.