Science Spies

Loser's Memorial is Apocalypse Now for a new generation. Two young men from different countries are driven to madness as they are dragged into the global war on terrorism. Through alternating perspectives across several years, Loser's Memorial takes you on a journey into the disturbing and surreal world of war without end, war without purpose, war for profit alone. Told with a masterful blend of intensity, humor, and humanity, Loser's Memorial is of that special breed of novel that spares no one from its skepticism, yet still remains entertaining and thrilling to the very last word and beyond.

Jak Jinnaka is off to save a princess yet again - except... Ostensibly a diplomat, really a spy in training, Jak Jinnaka has such a gift for getting into trouble that his fellow students have voted him "most likely to have a war named after him." His latest offense against cultural sensitivity would have ended his career at his junior year - except that the Academy is thoroughly corrupt, Jak has powerful and wealthy friends, and there's an easier way for the dean of students to get rid of him.

US Navy SEAL Jim Schweitzer is a consummate professional, a fierce warrior, and a hard man to kill. But when he sees something he was never meant to see on a covert mission gone bad, he finds himself--and his family--in the crosshairs. Nothing means more to Jim than protecting his loved ones, but when the enemy brings the battle to his front door, he is overwhelmed and taken down. That should be the end of the story.

Eighteen months after the Collapse of 2027, the former United States is divided. On one side is the evil and tyrannical Unified American Empire, controlled by President Simon Sterling, the man responsible for the death of the last legitimate president, Malcolm Powers. On the other side, President Howard Beck controls the Pacific States of America, the last hope for democracy and freedom. The two adversaries become embroiled in a bitter game of deception, betrayal, and espionage.

President Virginia Belknap is one year into her second term when a NASA scientist discovers a new planet with an atmosphere similar to Earth. Embracing the event, Belknap turns a one-way mission to colonize this new world into her grand calling. It is the early 2030s - a time when Earth is struggling under the ill effects of climate change and a growing population, and the mission seizes the world's imagination. But religious conservatives - led by an earnest evangelical named Randall Reese - rise up in outrage and indignation.

For Skye Thistle, one look through a mysterious spyglass changed everything. Catapulted to a strange world and into a war she doesn’t understand, she suddenly has a whole new set of problems. Should she hold on to everything she has always believed in, or let go of old prejudices and do whatever it takes to save her new friends? A dark shadow is growing in the south, and the goblins are at war. Can Skye trust them, or is there a traitor threatening to undermine everything she’s working to achieve.

Robert Griffin must navigate the troubled waters of the Galactic Republic Senate, politics, espionage, and a Cold War heating up, all while trying to survive assassination attempts. Young Mathoni learns his true heritage and sets off, quickly becoming the Republic's best undercover agent inside the Socialist Alliance. Beliefs will be tested, and new threats will come to light. Will the galaxy survive the clash of ideals that is coming?

Eddie’s world is in ruins, and she must decide whether to follow the rules or stand up against a ruthless regime. With her best friend Angel by her side, Eddie discovers hidden truths about her family's past and the resistance. Will she rise against oppression or succumb to fear?

Political scandals. Corporate greed. Embezzlement, disinformation, and fraud. Schemes perpetrated, year after year, by an elite few—and yet it’s always, always the little people who are victimized. Who pay the price. Those little people have finally demanded action. Powerful elites must be watched. And our leaders have responded...by mandating that all individuals who wield global influence receive Harvesters—nanoparticle-infused, flexible circuitry tattoos that transmit a person’s biometric data for monitoring and analysis. Analysis by Data Miners—like Gwen Elliott.

When the war broke out, Union soldiers assumed Confederate women would be innocent noncombatants. Experience soon challenged this simplistic belief. Stephanie McCurry reveals the vital and sometimes confounding roles women played on and off the battlefield. In this groundbreaking reconsideration of the Civil War, the award-winning author of Confederate Reckoning invites us to see America's bloodiest conflict not just as pitting brother against brother but as a woman's war.

Cambridge spy Guy Burgess was a supreme networker. He also set a gold standard for conflicts of interest, working variously for the BBC, MI5, MI6, the War Office, the Ministry of Information and the KGB. Yet Burgess was never challenged by Britain's spy catchers: his superiors were convinced he was too much of a liability to have been recruited by Moscow. Now, with a major new release of hundreds of files into the National Archives, Purvis and Hulbert reveal just how this charming establishment insider was able to fool everyone for so long.

Civil war looms in the Wheel, hanging over the heads of the voters as everyone wonders whether the Time industry is heading toward another Dispersal. With rumors of a False Zero Hour taking centerstage ahead of the elections, everyone is on high alert. Few understand this better than Tommen as he prepares to go before the Hands for his Apprentice review, knowing that Rifun may be all that stands between him and the vengeful Grandfathers.

What lengths is someone willing to go to for power? How many lives need to be destroyed or ruined to gain the highest level of control possible? Will a simple colony takeover be the answer, or do you need to hold an entire nation hostage? These are the questions everyone should be asking themselves when selecting a new premier, but no one believes someone could be that corrupt or harmful.

Young Petrika came to Block Island for an adventure. Luke will make sure that happens. It starts one special afternoon at the beach side bar where she works. He defends her honor and steals her heart. Over the next 24 hours, she learns he has also stolen Top Secret files from the US Navy that will change submarine warfare forever. Now he is hiding from the Feds, Russian mobsters, international spies and crazy assassins.

Asharee lost her family in a monster attack and learned to survive on the streets. It's a hard life, so when she's offered a chance to escape, she decides to look past the reputation of the person offering. Best decision ever. While a house of pleasure might seem like a bad place for a young woman, the truth is Asharee's never been safer. The gradeenas protect their tizanas. And so she learns how to entice, to dance, to seduce with her eyes and a shake of her hips. But what happens later in the privacy of her room...

Fifteen years following his imprisonment for committing a brutal revenge murder, former top DEA Agent Billy Russell is paroled five-years early to a world controlled by autocratic billionaires. Armed only with his wits, Billy returns to find a society fighting for its very survival, and soon finds himself embroiled in the wildest conspiracy he could have ever imagined.

After years of terrorist attacks, murders and kidnappings, citizens of the State vote to enact the Protector Program. A predictive policing system, it signals the dawn of the New Era. Passive iD chips are implanted in every citizen's wrist, providing convenience and protection. The chips enable users to unlock homes, start cars, transact in stores, and monitor their health. They also collect data.

Claire, like everyone else in Mega City Houston, believes she and her husband are free. They live normal lives, going to work and coming home to their giant apartment complex. But when a devastating hurricane sweeps through Mega-City Houston, it leaves behind an item from another city that shows maybe things aren’t as them seem.

The new sci-fi epsionage action drama is back with the final 15 episodes! Witness the end of the Gambit. The Lord Ascendent appears to be unstoppable. Chased back into the Fringe, the crew of the Matilda cannot stop Gallow’s march forward. Samantha is battered and beaten after her confrontation with Renic. The Kestrel threat was a lie. She knows her real enemy now, but Samantha must face the fact that she may have no way to fight back. On the Terminus, Qin did everything she could to slow the oncoming storm. Helping Julian expose Renic was supposed to take him out of the equation.

Ellie Noor longs for an end to the constant fighting on Earth. Now fully alien and nearly invincible, she and her superhuman husband are busy stamping out terrorist armies worldwide. But her heart breaks when a new global alliance for peace makes its first initiative a mass execution of its enemies. Suspicious of the motives of the movement’s creator, UK Prime Minister Ashton, Ellie’s search for answers only leads to startling revelations. And her former-MI6-spy husband isn’t helping matters by kowtowing to the British leader.