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In a New York City groaning under the burden of 35 million inhabitants, detective Andy Rusch is engaged in a desperate and lonely hunt for a killer everyone has forgotten. For even in a world such as this, a policeman can find himself utterly alone.

The Authority looks favourably upon meticulousness, efficiency and ambition. Bjorn has all of this in spades, but it's only in the Room that he can really shine. Unfortunately, his colleagues see things differently. In fact they don't even see the Room at all. The Room is a short, sharp and fiendish fable in the tradition of Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett and Charlie Kaufman. If you have ever toiled in an office, felt like the world was against you or questioned the nature of reality then this is the audiobook for you.

Decades of spiralling drug resistance have unleashed a global antibiotic crisis. Ordinary infections are untreatable, and a scratch from a pet can kill. A sacrifice is required to keep the majority safe: no one over 70 is allowed new antibiotics. The elderly are sent to hospitals nicknamed ‘The Waiting Rooms’, hospitals where no one ever gets well. Twenty years after the crisis takes hold, Kate begins a search for her birth mother, armed only with her name and her age.

From the incomparable crafter of nine cross-genre works of fiction, Lisa de Nikolits expands her horizons to pen a grab-you-by-the-throat, feminist speculative-fiction thriller in the style of Groundhog Day meets The Matrix. The perfect father kills his family on Christmas Eve, and tries to undo his actions by jumping back in time. The result is murder and mayhem in dystopia.

In this tale of post-apocalyptic survival, Leonard Ackerman works at a remote army base trying to solve the greatest threat facing mankind—an alien invasion has eroded our species down to very few numbers. His base is compromised, and Ackerman retreats to a laboratory he has never been seen, locking himself there with the enemy right outside his door. Inside the lab are 13 telephones—from the American Civil War through to Ackerman's present day. This lab seems to be some sort of closed experiment, and Ackerman discovers that he cannot exit until the experiment has run its course.

Are you ready for a wild ride through a dystopian world where power and money reign supreme? Meet Bob, a man with all the wealth and influence he could ever want but with a deep-seated sense of boredom and frustration at his lack of freedom. As those around him plot to use his position to start a new world order, Bob must decide whether to stand in their way.

Dies ist dein erster Raum. Entkomme in 60 Minuten. 2054: Der Klimawandel ist weit fortgeschritten, die Menschen leben auf engstem, hoch technologisierten Raum. Augmented-Reality-Programme erfreuen sich großer Beliebtheit – allen voran das Escape-Room-Spiel "Succession Game", das in den sozialen Medien von Millionen Fans gefeiert wird. Als die Privatdetektivin Clue als Kandidatin ausgewählt wird, sieht sie ihre Chance, den zwielichtigen Megakonzern hinter dem Spiel von innen aufzumischen.