Hacker Thriller

Der Garten Gethsemane am Vorabend von Jesus' Kreuzigung ... Marc und Guido halten sich für die Größten, als sie sich über das Stromnetz in den Vatikanrechner hacken. Doch sie können nichts mit der Computersimulation von Jehudas Verrat anfangen, die plötzlich über ihren Bildschirm flimmert...

Der Brite Azi Bello ist ein Hacker, einer der besten. Unerkannt bewegt er sich durch das Netz - und so ist der Schock umso größer, als eines Morgens jemand an die Tür seines mit Technik vollgestellten Gartenschuppens klopft. Es geht um Sigma, seine engste Hacker-Bekanntschaft. Hinter dem Pseudonym verbirgt sich die junge Muslima Munira, die dringend Hilfe braucht: Ihr Cousin ist zum IS nach Syrien gegangen, wo er furchtbarste Greuel erlebt hat. Nun will er nichts als zurück nach Europa. Im Gegenzug verspricht er explosive Informationen.

You could say it started with vanity. We believed we were special. But the truth is we were simply vulnerable. One of them is lying. One of them is guilty. No one is safe. Months after landing their dream job, five brilliant young minds are sent on a remote retreat. But when one of them disappears, they're forced to question why they were brought here in the first place - and how far they'd go to get what they want. And for the first time in their lives, they realise too much knowledge can be deadly.

Bount Reiniger, der in Fachkreisen als bester Privatermittler von New York gilt, ist auf der Suche nach Ted Hughes, einem dreisten Hacker, der gerade einen großen Konzern in erhebliche Schwierigkeiten gebracht hat. Ted Hughes hat Produktdaten für Raketenteile gehackt. Reiniger muss ihn finden und die wertvollen Daten sicherstellen. Doch als er den jungen Hacker ausfindig macht, kann er nur noch den Tod des Mannes feststellen - kaltblütig ermordet durch einen Kopfschuss. Reiniger erkennt sofort, dass hier ein professioneller Auftragskiller am Werk war.

Though the head of a major multinational corporation and a key player in world affairs, Samuel Walker Cox has a past that few people know about. But that group is about to get bigger. A computer disk has fallen into the hands of the Net Force, outing the powerful American businessman as a former Russian spy.

Minor viruses are eating away at the Net Force computers. The email shut-downs and flickering monitors are hardly emergencies - but they've been keeping the tech department hopping. Same with the sudden rash of time-consuming lawsuits. No one in the Net Force has a moment to spare, which is exactly the way Mitchell Townsend Ames wants it. Because when the shadowy mastermind launches his master plan, he wants Net Force to be looking the other way....

一天，张小南的QQ好友中突然出现了一个自称是“灵魂控制者”的陌生人。从此他的生活便笼罩在了阴森惊恐之中……一天，張小南的QQ好友中突然出現了一個自稱是「靈魂控制者」的陌生人。從此他的生活便籠罩在了陰森驚恐之中……

Five years ago, hacker Alex McCoy had a hot-as-hell week in Paris with a CIA agent she was teamed up with, before a final night that neither of them would call their finest hour. Now, Alex's life is spent hunting down classified information behind her screen and working too many hours to count. She's miles past burnout and has decided to escape to New York City for a much-needed vacation.

Special Agent Will Parker ist beim FBI, um der Allgemeinheit zu dienen. Doch als seine Vorgesetzten ihm einen undurchsichtigen Partner zur Seite stellen und einen Mordfall zuteilen, der im Zusammenhang mit seiner Vergangenheit steht, wird er misstrauisch. Immerhin war Parker früher CEO seines eigenen IT-Konzerns, und das Mordopfer wollte den bahnbrechenden Prototyp eines Quantencomputers verkaufen, der seiner Firma gehört. Während die Ermittlungen immer undurchschaubarer werden und sogar ausländische Agenten mitmischen, muss sich Parker entscheiden, wem seine Loyalität gehört: seiner Firma oder dem FBI.

Tobia Allievi si troverà a indagare su uno dei casi più criptici della sua carriera. Sono stati ritrovati, in ordine: il corpo di una ragazza punk, delle lettere dell’alfabeto posizionate in un apparente disordine, il poster di uno di quei film dimenticati, un altro corpo — questa volta di un hacker, ritrovato crocifisso — e per finire in bellezza una citazione di Wittgenstein. Allievi dovrà trovare il filo che connette tutti questi pezzi del puzzle, ma la questione sembra avere dell’impossibile.

Hamburg 2037: Lisa XIII öffnet die Augen. Sie ist anders. Sie will leben. Und ist bereit dafür zu kämpfen. Alex kehrt nach drei Jahren in die Stadt zurück. Niemand kann allein gegen die ganze Welt kämpfen. Dr. Agnes Gutter konnte als CEO von Better Life seit den mysteriösen Ereignissen vor drei Jahren vieles zum Besseren wenden. Nur ein Projekt entzieht sich noch ihrer Kontrolle. Zu viel Naivität, zu viel Profitgier und zu viel Ignoranz. Es hätte verhindert werden können.

It's the late '70s and Max and Little Billy are back from Vietnam trying to mind their own business when they stumble onto the murder of a local boy. With organized crime and local thugs on their trail, it's up to these two local heroes to solve the murder.

Edward Teraneau finds himself in a room with eight of the top poker players in the world. As a three time WSOP winner with the highest lifetime earnings of any player, the setting is not all that unusual. However, the fact that there are no doors or windows in the room and none of the players can remember how they got there pushes the situation far past the 'unusual' mark.

Gifted with an explosive psychic talent, Geneva Ericksen can’t risk letting Rolf Jorgensen in her life. If she does, she might accidentally kill him. But when Rolf’s sister goes missing, Geneva and her extraordinary abilities may be his only hope to find her.

December 2012, a massive solar storm knocks out the power grid. Three hundred million Americans are suddenly faced with a survival situation. They have no water, electricity or fuel. Food rapidly disappears from the store shelves, not to be replaced. Only three percent will survive. Those three percent will have much in common. What does it take to be one of them?

In 1863, a young woman's heritage is stolen from her, and she lays a terrible curse on the City of Angels. Now, in the 21st century, a teenaged girl with lethal psychic abilities arrives in Los Angeles, ready to ally herself with vengeful spirits of the past to feed her insatiable appetite for destruction. Only Gwen Michaelson, a natural healer afraid of her gifts, and Sam West, a broken amnesiac who was once a brilliant historian, stand against the psychotic and increasingly powerful May Blanco.

The ghost story has long been a staple of world literature, but many of the genre's greatest tales have been forgotten, overshadowed in many cases by their authors' best-selling work in other genres. In this spine-tingling anthology, little known stories from literary titans like Charles Dickens and Edith Wharton are collected alongside overlooked works from masters of horror fiction like Edgar Allan Poe and M. R. James. In bringing these masterful tales back from the dead, Ghost Stories will enlighten and frighten both longtime fans as well as new listeners of the genre.