Showing results for "The Twenty" in Technothrillers

The tantalising brief of a secret government project from the Cold War era. But, it can’t be real, can it? Toby Steele is a typical night shift tech support guy, working alone, mostly in peace, until something strange happens on the night of the 22nd of February, 2022. At 22:22:22—One moment that changes his life, forever. How will he deal with the new skills he’s acquired, and what do they mean for his future? What secrets has a one-hundred-year-old lady in a care home kept from the world for more than half a century?

Kale Mueez just wants to work on his computer programs and, okay, some not-so-legal hacking. Even though he sold one of his computer software companies for more money than he’d ever need, he wasn’t one to sit back and do nothing. That is especially true since his father is a super soldier known around the world. After spending time in the army, Kale returns home to his small town of Keeneston, working to hunt down The Panther, the one elusive criminal that’s ever escaped Kale. Until a wrong number changed everything.

Belgian physicist Dr. Jacobs learns that an infamous version of the Einstein Equation, thought to have been destroyed, had been discovered by billionaire genius David Purdue. Knowing how deadly the equation’s application would be, he tries to contact Purdue to warn him, but Purdue is frantically busy trying to solve the equation. Little does Purdue know that the Order of the Black Sun is using him to solve the equation for them, to set the ball rolling on a terrible experiment that could cause mass scale destruction.

Occult expert Jean-Luc Gerard has heard legend of an infamous book once owned by a powerful witch; a tome of magical knowledge that's pages have been split apart for centuries. He has dreamed of some day being able to see the book restored but those dreams never seemed possible, until the day he met billionaire adventurer David Purdue.... Aligned with a common goal, the two men must navigate the strange, the cursed, and even the enchanted in their quest to read the contents of the lost book of shadows.

After losing everything he owned in a swift defeat from his greatest enemy, David Purdue is not the man he once was. Broken and beaten, the once great adventurer David Purdue must rebuild his life to try and reclaim what was taken from him. Forming uneasy alliances with modern-day pirates, Purdue seeks the buried treasure of a once infamous buccaneer, seeing it as the only way to start restoring his lost wealth. He quickly learns that things aren't nearly as easy when you have no money and sail with a crew of criminals who might mutiny at any moment.

Billionaire adventurer David Purdue never expected that a phone call from an old friend would send him on a quest for the fabled Spear of Destiny. When he accepts the task, he embarks on a globetrotting search with colleagues and enemies alike, but one particular foe takes a new, more dangerous shape - one that Purdue might not be able to stop this time.

Recruited solely for his reputation in cyber intelligence, Luke Frankland is meant to lend his name to a cyber start-up venture, host clients, and build up the sales value of the fledgling company. However, when he is targeted by a new type of social engineering, he quickly realises that all is not as it seems in the high-tech world of commercial intelligence gathering. Thrust into an environment where corporate advantage means multi-million dollar contracts, he discovers that some within the firm will stop at nothing to protect their share of the profits.

Eine Geschichte wie ein Computerspiel, wie ein Escape Room. Du rennst von Stunde zu Stunde um dein Leben, um deine Familie zu retten. Und ständig tickt die Uhr. Daniel ist ein normaler Typ in einer normalen amerikanischen Stadt. Und er hält sich für einen coolen Zocker. Hätte er sich bloß nicht für dieses Spiel angemeldet! Sein Kumpel Josh hatte ihm gesagt, dass es eine echte Challenge ist. Aber er hatte keine Ahnung, worauf er sich da wirklich eingelassen hat.

Wie fühlt es sich an, ein Experiment zu sein? Alice hofft auf ein normales Leben: Liebe, Freunde, Arbeit. Doch ihre Eltern wollen sie für immer in die Anstalt stecken. Eine berüchtigte Psychiatrie, versteckt unter der Zentrale eines Pharmakonzerns. In letzter Sekunde flieht Alice aus der elterlichen Villa im bayerischen Grünwald, trampt Richtung Norden und taucht in Hamburg unter. Aber die Hetzjagd auf sie hat längst begonnen. Angeführt von Viktor, dem brutalen Söldner, der für die Anstalt die Drecksarbeit erledigt. Denn Alice ist mehr als eine normale junge Frau.

هل يمكن لبشر أن يصارع أحدث جهاز كمبيوتر فى العالم ؟ لماذا عادت منظمة ( سكوربيون ) لمحاربة ( أدهم ) ، برغم إعلان وفاته ؟ لمن تكون الغلبـة : لرجـل أم للكمبيوتر فى هذا الصراع الشيطانى ؟

Cunning adventurer David Purdue has finally regained some of the money that was stolen from him. However, when he discovers that a powerful sunken treasure could be the key to recovering the rest of his broken life, he will risk everything he has gotten back to obtain this new prize. Meanwhile, Dr. Nina Gould's time as a prisoner of the Order of the Black Sun gives her a chance to learn some of their most well-kept secrets.

Drogen, unter der Oberfläche sind sie präsenter denn je in unserer Gesellschaft. Was bringt Menschen dazu, wider besseres Wissen, zu süchtig machenden Mitteln zu greifen? Sind wir alle dagegen so gefeit, wie wir gerne glauben? Wo nahm der Siegeszug der Drogen seinen Anfang? Und birgt die Gegenwart nicht noch ganz andere, neue Suchtgefahren? Als T-Rex und Nolo in eine scheinbar zufällige Razzia geraten, nehmen sie die Fährte auf, die sie zu einigen unbequemen Wahrheiten führt.

Die "totale Überwachung" ... sie ist keine Dystopie mehr, sondern die nackte Realität. Das erleben T-Rex und Nolo am eigenen Leib, als sie plötzlich am Berliner Flughafen von Sicherheitsbeamten in Gewahrsam genommen werden. Den Vorwand dafür liefert die Basis für eine Recherche, die keinen von uns kalt lassen sollte, denn sie betrifft uns alle, jeden Tag.

Gifted housebreaker, Michael O'Connor, awakens inside an ultramodern criminal justice system where prison walls are replaced by surveillance equipment and a host of actors hired to determine if he is worthy of freedom. While he was sleeping, the Supreme Court declared long term incarceration to be cruel and unusual punishment and ordered two million felons released. The result was utter chaos and the backlash from law-abiding citizens and police departments reshaped the United States. Felons now enter reeducation programs where they live freely among the population.