Science Spies

Sometime in 2016, a series of dialogues took place which set out to find a meeting ground, even if only an illusion, between A.S. Dulat and Asad Durrani. One was a former chief of RAW, India's external intelligence agency, the other of ISI, its Pakistani counterpart. As they could not meet in their home countries, the conversations, guided by journalist Aditya Sinha, took place in cities like Istanbul, Bangkok and Kathmandu.

Panik, Planlosigkeit, politisches Totalversagen - für diese Krise sind wir nicht bereit. Der neue Katastrophen-Thriller von Bestseller-Autor Phillip P. Peterson. Das Forschungszentrum in Köln ist das fortgeschrittenste seiner Art und das Vorzeigeprojekt der deutschen Regierung. Hier wird an Nanotechnologie experimentiert, um winzige Maschinen zu schaffen, die unser Leben von Grund auf verändern können. Das Versprechen ist groß, das Restrisiko vernachlässigbar. Heißt es.

Captains Skyler Luiken and Gloria Tsandi (and their respective crews) have smashed through the deadly Swarm Blockade but now find themselves scattered around the planet Carthage and the space stations she holds in her orbit. Their mission is now twofold: destroy the military compounds of a race of nefarious alien overlords and find a way back home to Earth. Standing in their way are a race of horrifying, technologically advanced aliens armed with incredible weapons.

In January 2003, 28-year-old GCHQ translator Katharine Gun received an email from the US National Security Agency that would turn her world upside down. The message requested Katharine’s assistance in co-ordinating an illegal US-UK spy operation which would secure UN authorisation for the Iraq invasion. Horrified, she decided to leak the information to the British press. Katharine’s decision would change her life forever, as she was arrested under the Official Secrets Act whilst becoming a cause célèbre for political activists.

I’ve dreamed of attending Spellcasters Spy Academy for as long as I can remember. But as it turns out, it’s not the academic utopia I imagined. This place is dangerous as hell. And I don’t mean the classes. They say the students in the Culling year, my year, are cursed. Someone is picking us off. Or maybe something.

In The Crash of Flight 3804, Investigative Journalist Charlotte Dennett digs into her father’s counterintelligence work, which pitted him against America’s wartime allies - the British, the French, and the Russians - in a covert battle for geopolitical and economic influence in the Middle East. Through vivid storytelling, extensive research, and deep analysis of region-defining maps, she reveals how feverish competition among intelligence networks, military, and Big Oil interests have fueled indiscriminate attacks and targeted killings that continue to this day.

The Great War is at a stalemate, and the only thing stopping Germany from striking America is the threat of the United States using their own Annihilation Gas against them. But America's supply is quickly decaying and the Central Powers know it. A plant is under construction in the remote highlands of Mexico so that America can make their own supply. President Teddy Roosevelt assigns crack agent Luz O'Malley and her technical genius Ciara Whelan to watch over the plant operating under cover identities.

En 2008, Txema Guijarro pidió una excedencia en Telefónica, y viajó a Latinoamérica para participar como asesor demoscópico de los candidatos de izquierda en los procesos electorales de Paraguay y El Salvador. Tras acumular experiencia política, pasó a ser analista de la Cancillería de Relaciones Exteriores del Gobierno ecuatoriano de Rafael Correa. El analista describe, desde el punto de vista de un testigo privilegiado, la fenomenal tormenta política, judicial y mediática que enfrentó al Gobierno ecuatoriano de Rafael Correa con Estados Unidos y Reino Unido.

The South’s James Bulloch, charming and devious, was to acquire a cutting-edge clandestine fleet intended to break President Lincoln’s blockade of Confederate ports, sink Northern merchant vessels, and drown the U.S. Navy’s mightiest ships at sea. The profits from gunrunning and smuggling cotton—Dixie’s notorious “white gold”—would finance the scheme. Opposing him was Thomas Dudley, a resolute Quaker lawyer and abolitionist. He was determined to stop Bulloch by any means necessary in a spy-versus-spy game of move and countermove, gambit and sacrifice, intrigue and betrayal.

A novel that imagines a future in which sweeping civil conflict has forced America's young people to flee its borders into an unwelcoming world. One such American is Ron Patterson, who finds himself on distant shores, working as a repairman and sharing a room with other refugees. In an unnamed city wedged between ocean and lush mountainous forest, Ron can almost imagine a stable life for himself. Especially when he makes the first friend he has had in years—a mysterious migrant named Marlise, who bears a striking resemblance to a onetime classmate.

لا يتوقّف الكاتب الشاب المثير للجدل أنور رحماني عن صناعة الحدث وفتح الأسئلة، فبعد رواياته المثيرة للجدل جاء بقنبلةٍ جديدة أثارت زوبعة على مستوى عالمي وأسماها "ما يخفيه الله عنا" وقد تمَّ منعها في عدّة دول، لكن الرواية ليست كما يُظهرها العنوان فهي لا تتحدَّث عن عالم الغيب بل تبني عالمًا جديدًا تُقدّس فيه التماسيح بشكل مَرضي لدرجة تقديم اللحم البشري لها والإيمان الأعمى بأنّ لذّة التمزق بين أنياب التماسيح ألّذ مئة مرّة من ممارسة الجنس!!

When propagandist Paulo Xirau dies and is discovered to himself be a "machine", State Security Agent Nikolai South is given a new assignment he could hardly want less: chaperone the widow, Lily, the only "machine" visitor ever invited from the outside world, and help her determine what happened to her husband. Nikolai knows it will be nearly impossible to complete the job without running afoul of the Party - but when he sees that Lily bears an eerie resemblance to his late wife, Nikolai stumbles on a larger plot.

Weimar 1942: Die Programmiererin Helene arbeitet im Nationalen Sicherheits-Amt und entwickelt dort Programme, mit deren Hilfe alle Bürger des Reichs überwacht werden. Erst als die Liebe ihres Lebens Fahnenflucht begeht und untertauchen muss, regen sich Zweifel in ihr. Mit ihren Versuchen, ihm zu helfen, gerät sie nicht nur in Konflikt mit dem Regime, sondern wird auch in die Machtspiele ihres Vorgesetzten Lettke verwickelt, der die perfekte Überwachungstechnik des Staates für ganz eigene Zwecke benutzt und dabei zunehmend jede Grenze überschreitet.

Valerie Wilson, the object of the "Plame" CIA leak case that resulted in the conviction of the vice-president's chief of staff, Scooter Libby, has spoken publicly only twice since she was outed in July 2003. Now she tells not only the real story behind the leak, but describes her life at the CIA and what happened when her cover was blown.

Las Vegas, Nevada. For some, a neon drenched playground. For Harmony Black, a graveyard of bad memories. But when your job is protecting humanity from the horrors of the occult underworld, you go where the mission sends you. The annual TechTopia conference draws Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, big thinkers, startup investors - and the Basilisk, a former German military intelligence officer turned freelance assassin. He’s in town to make a killing, and his target could be any of a thousand potential victims.

In an alternate society that values law and truth above all else, Laszlo Ratesic is a 19-year veteran of the Speculative Service. He lives in the Golden State, a nation standing where California once did, a place where like-minded Americans retreated after the erosion of truth and the spread of lies made public life and governance impossible. In the Golden State, knowingly contradicting the truth is the greatest crime - and stopping those crimes is Laz's job. In its service, he is one of the few individuals permitted to harbor untruths, to "speculate" on what might have happened.

Jackson Stone’s life changed forever when he received a heart transplant. He’s a man torn between those who saved him and his search for the truth. When Jackson interrogates a rogue operative, he uncovers a horrific worldwide conspiracy. The countdown to Armageddon begins. When Jackson meets the enemy, he is given a choice: Join him and stop Flynn, or die. But nothing is what it seems.

It's 1945. The Red Army tears through Europe towards Berlin, exacting vengeance, while the British and the Americans close in from the west. Victory over Hitler seems certain. But inside the Kremlin, Stalin worries about a new enemy. When the war is over, how will the Soviet Union protect itself against the American behemoth? Meanwhile Hitler knows he needs a miracle to avoid an humiliating defeat. For both, the atom bomb is the answer....

Abel, recherché par la police et les dirigeants américains, est contraint de se battre pour survivre. Traqué au cœur du pays navajo, Abel Valdès Villazón, le leader du groupe écologiste Gaïa, révèle un scandale d'Etat, espérant ainsi provoquer la chute du gouvernement américain. Mais cette affaire dissimule un complot bien plus vaste qui implique Pékin et le milliardaire Cornélius Fox. La Maison Blanche lance toutes les forces du pays aux trousses de Gaïa, tandis qu'une bombe atomique explose dans le désert du Nouveau Mexique.

Marci Simon lives a double life: conservative professor of English by day, and controversial blogger of aliens by night. But when a classified document lands in her lap, her two worlds collide in an explosive revelation of shocking and deadly secrets. Despite imminent danger at every twist, Marci embarks on an unstoppable quest to expose the terrifying truth. Only she never anticipated the entangled nebula of dark lies, nor the never-ending wormhole the government would spiral through to silence her forever.