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ATHRIX: THE LAST DRAGON'S BIBLE The Ultimate Thriller That Will Change How You See Reality Forever What if the most powerful tech billionaires weren't human? What if consciousness itself could be hacked, transferred, and weaponized? What if humanity's greatest evolutionary leap was hidden in plain sight?
A dead file should have stayed buried. Years after a covert operation destroyed his career and reduced his life to something smaller and quieter, former officer under non-official cover Paul Andrews is pulled back in by one impossible detail: a sealed commercial claims file tied to the operation that broke him has been reopened, and inside it is a handwritten correction from a man who should be dead. That means one piece of the past survived. Now Paul is back in the same cold terrain he once used as cover, ports, claims records, warehouses, customs trails, and the practical lies hidden inside ordinary commerce. But this time he is not just chasing a buried seam. He is racing a hidden review machine inside HQ known as Black Desk, the off-books mechanism that decides what survives compromised operations and who gets turned into order before the truth can surface. As the file opens into something larger, Paul is forced to work with Anna Calder, the forensic reconstruction specialist he once cut out of his life when the walls first started closing in. She reads damage. He reads pressure. Together they begin to uncover a pattern Black Desk should have erased years ago. Compromised is a cold, modern espionage thriller about buried tradecraft, institutional betrayal, and the danger of being pulled back into your own file.Voir livre
I thought I'd seen it all. Talk about your all-time wake-up calls … Earth is teeming with alien larvae. That reality has just crashed down on us like a ton of contaminated space rocks. Every time I close my eyes, I still see the huge spider-like monster rising up. I killed that one just in time, but we know that more could hatch at any moment. Even worse … we know that if any of them reach their final form, they'll be indestructible. Now, our only hope of saving Earth from this ticking time-bomb lies on the distant world of Eden. The problem? We have reason to think the natives engineered this stuff. If there was any other route forward, we'd be taking it. We wouldn't be blazing this uncharted path to potentially hostile territory. But with one card left to play in a game we can't afford to lose, I can't keep my mind from fixating on one unshakeable question: Are we racing towards Earth's salvation … or on a one-way trip to oblivion?Voir livre
A regional television programme, Get One Over, where amateurs search for and discover antiques and valuable objects in junk shops, has captured the nation’s zeitgeist and gone nationwide. The Christmas episode is to be filmed in Market Darley, and being antiques fans, Miss Emily Jarvis, and DI Falconer and DS Carmichael plan to be in town to bump into the stars of the programme. Carmichael loves the programme for its jokey narrator, but Falconer, along with a host of other viewers, hates the man’s rude and condescending commentary. But on a crispy cold December morning, as the chase around the town to find the TV stars continues, it proves to be a terminal performance for one of their number.Voir livre
Chatty cats and killer chili! When a cantankerous food critic turns up dead at Maplewood's annual cook off, innkeeper Emily Hartley and her feline friend Mr. Whiskers must figure out who spiced up their small town with a side of murder before the killer dishes up seconds. But with a committee of colorful characters carrying seasonings and secrets galore, tracking down the killer proves trickier than Emily's famous five alarm chili recipe. Can Emily sniff out the culprit before she's next on the chopping block?Voir livre
A team of con artists travel the country, marrying rich, unsought women, only to clean them out on their wedding night. The only problem is their last mark's father happens to be a secret underworld kingpin now bent on avenging his homely daughter's broken heart. After Angie Robertson's new husband disappears with over $200,000 in wedding gifts and a brand new 911 Porsche convertible, her gangster father makes it his mission to seek retribution. Alongside him is Angie's brother and heir to the Robertson empire, Sebastian, who, like his father, is eager to enact a swift revenge. Meanwhile, the missing groom and his team of con artists speed along the southwestern coast, searching for the next town and rich, lonely girl they could scam out of a couple hundred grand. The Wedding Bandits have been doing this for years, and they've only gotten better with time. Settling in the small town of Oak County, the team starts their usual routine of finding a mark. The new target is the daughter of the town Sheriff, a sage man who came into substantial wealth in years past for an act of heroism. Unbeknownst to the bandits, as they plot and scheme a way to separate the Sheriff from his millions, Angie's brother and father have been tracking their movements, inching closer each day to their coveted vengeance. And yet, despite all the secrets and malicious behavior, love manages to bud between the bandits' dauntless leader and the Sheriff's homely daughter. It seems like Cupid may have finally caught up to the traveling hustler. Unfortunately, so have the FBI… The mission becomes a ticking time bomb that ends in abduction, heartbreak, and murder. And the person you least expect may be the one to squeeze the trigger.Voir livre
A ghost from her past. A sister murdered. A stage set for deathNew York City, 1920. Grace Michelle has clawed her way from the streets to a dream role as costume designer for the glamorous Ziegfeld Follies. But when her sister—the show's dazzling star—is found dead, Grace's world crumbles. To find the killer, Grace must step into her sister's spotlight, trading sketches for sequins in a role she never wanted. With every curtain rise, the danger grows—onstage and off—as she's drawn into a tangled plot of fame, ambition, and betrayal. When a figure from her dark past reappears, alive and more dangerous than ever, Grace must uncover the truth before the final act claims her too. Grace in the Wings is the first book in the Grace Michelle Mysteries, a glitzy, fast-paced historical mystery series set in the dazzling world of 1920s Broadway—where every spotlight casts a shadow.Voir livre
