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An eccentric theoretical physicist created a portal to some of the extra dimensions predicted by String Theory. The positive impact this could have on the world was awe inspiring. It was also perceived by political leaders worldwide to have the capacity to be weaponized with a level of power that would be unchallenged. An international race thus ensued to either control or destroy the technology and its creator.

Ralph es un francotirador de élite que se ha visto obligado a infiltrarse en la peligrosa mafia rusa, la Solivsnov. Sonia es una joven editora que lucha por reconstruir su vida en su ciudad natal. Un reencuentro después de un año.

Mississippi charmer Abner Mason is a professional gambler and a regular on the Delta Jack, a luxurious riverboat. But luck hasn't exactly been going Mason's way. After a disastrous loss at the tables, he owes an impossible debt to the most powerful man on the ship: mysterious, ruthless Cam Greeley. And Greeley's willing to do whatever it takes to get his fortune back - even threaten Mason's life. Now Mason has a single night to raise all the funds to pay off his debt by completing whatever ominous jobs Greeley has waiting for him. He just has to make it through alive....

Nathan Long, CEO of the mysterious software corporation Veridical, travels to Southeast Asia on business—unaware that his life will soon fall apart. A hacker collective makes monstrous allegations: His software, developed to fight crime, is allegedly being misused to suppress dissidents in autocratic countries. When loose accusations turn into brutal blackmail, Nathan finds himself caught between two ruthless sides. Who is telling the truth? Whom can he trust? And how far will he go to save his company—and his own life?

Nathan Long, CEO des geheimnisvollen Softwarekonzerns Veridical, reist geschäftlich nach Südostasien – nichts ahnend, dass sein Leben bald aus den Fugen gerät. Ein Hacker-Kollektiv erhebt ungeheuerliche Vorwürfe: Seine Software, entwickelt zur Verbrechensbekämpfung, soll zur Unterdrückung von Dissidenten missbraucht werden.

Chip Chippendale met Ransom Barnes after the War Between the States, when the two cowboys drove a herd up from Texas together. But when Chip first laid eyes on Wyoming, he knew he was home, and the two friends split off on different trails. Each man went on to own his own ranch, but when Ransom's home is attacked and burned by a marauding band of Cheyenne warriors, he is faced with ruin - and makes matters worse by gunning down the Cheyenne leader's son.

Their friendship started with a schoolyard tussle. Now the need for revenge is what binds Luke Croft and Red Connover together. When Luke taught himself how to fire a Colt, he never imagined he'd turn into a gunman. But when his stepfather's dodgy business dealings turn his life upside down, Luke asks Red to help him destroy the man who murdered his kin. The road to vengeance is long and hard, and the two friends who are barely out of boyhood will need all the help they can get if they want to catch a cold-blooded killer.

Carrie Rhodes is escaping lifetime of abuse. Now she must hide from her boyfriend and the gang that wants her dead. When her car breaks down just north of Chicago, hope fades and she resigns herself to her inevitable fate. But hope returns in the form of an extraordinary man with dark secrets and an unusual occupation. For the first time, Carrie finds herself as part of an extended family where love is given freely and unconditionally.

Three women and two men are linked in a mysterious circle of marriage, children, tragedy, blackmail, death, and unexplained events. What starts out to be a smooth romantic story, suddenly turns murderous and complex with many mysterious happenings: a baby dies one hour after birth - real cause unknown (until later); a woman is mistakenly pronounced dead; blackmail occurs; a rigged auto accident in which a child is mistakenly and severely injured occurs; a man is found dead - just to name a few.

È il gennaio del 2020 quando Ralph Core vola in Zimbabwe per raccogliere materiale per il suo nuovo libro. Vuole scrivere della diga di Kariba, un’opera colossale e avveniristica che sbarra il fiume Zambesi e dal 1960, grazie al lavoro ingegneristico di alcune imprese italiane, fornisce energia idroelettrica al paese centrafricano e a quelli vicini. I lavori, che all’epoca avevano costretto 70.000 indigeni Tonga ad abbandonare tra tensioni e rivolte le fertili rive dello Zambesi e della Gwembe Valley, erano stati però considerati non solo un’opportunità ma una ferita inferta a Nyaminyami, il dio del fiume.

Dramatizado Un productor de cine pornográfico, que se dedica a comprar snuff movies y a aprovechar fragmentos de las mismas para incluirlos en sus propias producciones, visiona una película particularmente sangrienta que le han ofrecido, y decide comprarla por considerar que puede aprovechar unos cuantos cortes.Quien le ha vendido esa película es nuestro protagonista, Dean Allen Corll, un sádico asesino en serie.

La muchacha inexperta sintió frio en todo el cuerpo excepto en las entrañas, donde parecía albergar un fuego que la abrasaba. Recordó el dolmen y el gran perro negro de ojos muy brillantes que, medio tendido sobre la gran losa pétrea, una mesa para gigantes, parecía sentírse el dueño del mundo.

"Do you hear me, Rob? We know who killed your wife and daughters and where they are.” Rob Madden, still holding the cell phone in his shaking hands, tried to grasp what DEA Special Agent Bonnie McCord had just said. Three years ago, his wife and two young daughters were brutally murdered by terrorists as payback for his Special Ops drone strikes on al-Qaeda leaders in Yemen.