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Die kleinste Abweichung im Klang einer Stimme genügt dem berühmten forensischen Phonetiker Matthias Hegel, um Wahrheit von Lüge zu unterscheiden. Zahlreiche Kriminelle konnten mit seiner Hilfe bereits überführt werden. Hat der Berliner Forensiker nun selbst gelogen? Allzu freimütig scheint sein Geständnis, eine Obdachlose in einem heftigen Streit ermordet zu haben.

Omar Haddad is a brutal jihadist in Syria who appears to be invulnerable and capable of supernatural feats. But is Haddad divine, as he claims? Is he a gifted magician? Or is he making use of a stunning scientific breakthrough? And what, exactly, is keeping him from unleashing the global apocalypse he’s so eager to bring about? Brennan Craft, a quirky quantum physics genius, has the answers, and the US military is desperate to capture him.

A scientist murdered a mile beneath the earth, his secret laboratory exposed. A formula capable of forcing a power shift among the world's largest nations is missing. Its rightful owner wants it back. Jackson Quick is pulled back into the darkness he despises. Forced to face his demons and align himself with the very people who betrayed him, he agrees to hunt for the formula. Racing against time and an evil black-market czar, Quick crosses the globe in search of a mathematical equation so valuable, nations and terrorists will pay whatever the cost to control it. 

Having stopped a mutiny against Earth's government, General Bill Booly and his troops face an even greater challenge: a battle for the future of every living being in the universe, against a fanatical human and his killer technology.

Death awaits the curious! Out along the rim of the galaxy hangs a loose configuration of some 60 stars known as the Faustian Chain. This whorl of sparkling suns is rich in planets and occupies an irregular volume of space some 20 light years in diameter. From an external viewpoint, the Chain presents a colorful display of plasma-streams, luminous nebulae and sparkling pinpoints of light.

The perfect afterlife or a never-ending nightmare? Isobel has it all: a steady relationship, the immaculate home and her dream job. Life, and even death, is completely under her control. For Isobel's generation death no longer means oblivion, thanks to firms like her employer, Oakley Associates. Isobel is their top Heaven Architect, crafting perfect afterlives for her clients: artificial paradises of the mind built from the memories they treasure most. Then Isobel meets handsome client Jarek....

In the early 2020s, two young, genius computer hackers, Elizabeth Santiago and David Schwartz, meet at MIT, where Schwartz is sneaking into classes, and have a brief affair. David is amoral and out for himself and soon disappears. Elizabeth dreams of technology and space travel and takes a military job after graduating.

Three hundred years ago, Earth suffered a mass extinction event. The last humans fled to the stars in search of a new home. In the darkness, they fought to survive. Now the fleet decays, and their hope of finding a better world is fading. Era Corinth works to preserve the archives, but viewing them herself would be treason. When she's faced with the possibility that her unborn child may be aborted due to a genetic defect, her fascination with ancient secrets escalates to obsession.

The Confederacy is threatened by an uprising of the Hudathans, an unfeeling cyborg race that has built up its forces through stolen technology, and their only opponents are the members of the Legion.

"Hilfe, mein Baby ist weg! Hier ist nur Blut ..." Nach kurzen Kampfgeräuschen bricht der panische Notruf einer Mutter bei der Nummer 112 plötzlich ab. Wenn jemand aus diesem Tonfragment Rückschlüsse auf den Aufenthaltsort der Frau ziehen kann, dann der forensische Phonetiker Matthias Hegel - den einige nach wie vor für einen Mörder halten.

Rhona has battled the malevolent AI intent on wiping out humanity since the first Machinations began - until she’s killed during a rescue mission gone wrong. Now, Rhona awakens to find herself transported to a new body, complete with her DNA and her personality. She's a clone...of herself. Except for her missing memories. Some of which could potentially turn the tide of the war. 

Sometimes defending those you love means risking everything and attempting the most dangerous task in the universe: making a planetary assault against a heavily entrenched enemy. It's grim and always ugly. But as long as men refuse to bow their heads to conquerors, they will take the fight to the enemy or die trying. Three masters of military science fiction have come together here to tell harrowing tales of high-tech mayhem.

Das Mysterium von den Orkneyinseln. Cato Pike ist ein Veteran des amerikanischen Geheimdienstes. Als sein Vater, ein renommierter Historiker, ihn um einen Gefallen bittet, stimmt Cato widerwillig zu. Er soll in einer Abtei auf den sturmgepeitschten schottischen Orkneyinseln ein geheimnisvolles Paket abholen. Sein Auftrag und sein Leben ändern sich schlagartig, als er erfährt, dass der alte Schotte, der ihm das Paket übergeben sollte, gefoltert und ermordet wurde. Kurz darauf wird eine Nonne aus derselben Abtei in Neuengland getötet.

Beer, redheads, and politics...Jackson Quick should have known better. First, he trusted a Texas politician. Then he fell for a leggy woman. Worst of all, he drank a beer that tasted funny. Now, he's running for his life and trying to save the world. When Quick is kidnapped and interrogated about the encrypted tech he's been charged by his powerful boss to deliver, he has no idea it's connected to a missing research scientist on the verge of an earth-shaking breakthrough.

Alzando gli occhi al cielo non si vede, eppure è lí. Il Sole Nero. Il Distruttore. Fra trenta giorni se ne accorgeranno tutti, ma allora sarà troppo tardi. Pochissimi sanno cosa sta per accadere: politici, industriali e finanzieri, vertici religiosi e militari. Ogni gruppo di iniziati al segreto trama ai danni degli altri, con un proprio obiettivo... Ma esiste una speranza. Secoli fa qualcuno ha creato uno strumento per opporsi a questa diabolica cospirazione.

A una settantina di chilometri da Milano sorge Picta, una cittadina non segnata sulle carte e che non dovrebbe neppure esistere (Picta muore). La sua popolazione, ignorata dagli atti ufficiali, è ridotta quasi a zero e vive rigorosamente segregata. Il mistero di Picta s'intreccia con la caccia a un nuovo, tremendo virus informatico scatenata dall'Interpol nonché da Gregorius Moffa, lo spietato killer che è l'antieroe anche del secondo romanzo ospitato in questo volume (L'algoritmo bianco).

Das hochspannende Finale der Evolution-Reihe! Was passiert, wenn der Mensch Gott spielt? Ella, Ben und Gabriel fliehen immer noch vor Nicolai und der Operation Darwin. Dabei werden sie mit der erschütternden Wahrheit konfrontiert: Die einzige Hoffnung auf Freiheit ist die gewagte Manipulation der menschlichen DNA. Dafür spielen die Zwillinge eine entscheidende Rolle, denn ihre Gene sind der Schlüssel zum Erfolg.

Philip Wade è uno stimato professore di Storia contemporanea al Birkbeck College di Londra, ma in passato ha vissuto molte vite e in una di queste ha lavorato per una grande banca d'affari della City in qualità di analista, chiamato a prevedere le tendenze economiche, politiche e sociali su cui indirizzare gli investimenti. Colpito da una forma di amnesia, Philip oggi non riesce più a trattenere alcun ricordo recente: nei buchi della sua memoria scompare anche il saggio che stava scrivendo e di cui non c'è più traccia.

Jackson Quick thought he destroyed the secret formula that could lead to nuclear war. He was wrong. Jackson thought he understood his own past. He was wrong about that too. To get the answers he desperately seeks about who he really is, he embarks on one final mission to find the lone remaining copy of a powerful, earth-changing formula and hand it over to the man he despises most. Somehow he must find his way to the formula - and deliver it without losing control.

Ein EMP-Angriff auf die Vereinigten Staaten hat die gesamte Elektrizität ausgelöscht und das Land in eine dunkle Vorzeit gerissen. John Matherson überlebte Hungersnot und Krieg und möchte endlich wieder Frieden finden. Doch als die neue Regierung die Verfassung außer Kraft setzt und immer mehr Bürger um ihre Freiheit kämpfen, sieht er eine neue Gefahr für die junge Nation: Eine gewaltige Revolution könnte alles in Schutt und Asche enden lassen... Wir sind in völlige Abhängigkeit der Technologie geraten.