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Terrorists have taken down America's electrical grid in the simplest way possible, they shot holes in it. The same as they had previously tried on the Silicon Valley in 2013 that most people in the know said was a trial run to destroy America. The attack, which nearly took out power to parts of Silicon Valley, has been called "the most significant incident of domestic terrorism involving the grid that has ever occurred" by the nation's top electrical utility regulator. The destruction continues and mayhem ensues as hackers use cyber-attacks to further destabilize the world and take down the nation's infrastructure.

La intervención de un teléfono móvil permite a los servicios secretos británico y estadounidense ponerse sobre la pista de un atentado, que se presume muy sangriento, de al-Qaida. Poco más se sabe del mismo, y los intentos por descubrirlo son estériles.

A Boeing 777 takes off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport and rendezvouses behind an American tanker refueling fighters, thus falling in its radar. Chinese military computer hackers break into a key defense satellite, and a North Korean cargo ship drops a black box into the Indian Ocean. All the events, along with a flight simulator, combine to produce a perfect storm for The Great Hijacking.

In the span of a few days, six tons of lithium-6 are stolen in Japan, and 180 grams of plutonium vanish in France. Word of these crimes quickly reaches Colonel Kenneth Andrews at the US Nuclear Terrorism Unit. He mobilizes the best team in nuclear defense, including special agents - and couple - Lauri Nurmi and Alice Donovan.

Take your pick of death and drama: slow by radiation, intimate as a knife in the back from a camouflaged stalker, or sudden, with the crack of high-powered firearms. The killings play against the slow, grinding gears of federal laws and politics. Matt and Tanya Hunter again team with Webb to produce a gripping, suspenseful, and timely pause-resister.

In Men of Conviction, Lionel Ross tells the fascinating tale of three desperate and disparate young men, released from prison on the same day. They are Hussein, the Islamist preacher of Jihad; Wayne, the burglar and Dovid, the religious Jew and 'one offence fraudster'. Men of Conviction is their story over the ensuing ten years.

Temerás a quien ya no tiene nada que perder. Un thriller psicológico en el que la víctima no se rinde. País Vasco, 2007. Tras el fracaso de la última tregua, ETA prepara un nuevo golpe para demostrar su cuestionada fortaleza. Dos encapuchados secuestran a punta de pistola a Bixen Alzola, profesor de universidad y defensor de la vía pacífica como única alternativa para solucionar el conflicto vasco. Cuando su mujer, Leire, recibe la llamada de la organización terrorista reivindicando la acción, siente que su mundo se resquebraja.

¿Y si el arma más peligrosa del mundo no fuera un misil inteligente, un submarino sigiloso o un virus informático? ¿Y si, en realidad, se tratara de un chico de diecisiete años con una mente prodigiosa, capaz de sortear los sistemas de seguridad más sofisticados y de manipular cualquier arma y volverla en contra de los más poderosos? ¿Qué no estaría dispuesta a hacer cualquier agencia de inteligencia para tenerlo de su lado? Hay que encontrarlo y capturarlo. O protegerlo y salvarlo.

In this conclusion to the Curtain series, the spiritual battle lines are drawn between the forces of the light and the darkness. As the immediacy and dimensions of the threat become known in the physical world, there seem to be no good options and deliverance seems impossible, but President Strong calls America to stand before God before it faces its enemies.

The revised story of Checkmate is the first in The White House National Security series and features young scientist Dr. Cameron Talbot who invents a breakthrough technology to defend against cruise missiles. She needs support from skeptical company officers, funding from a reluctant Congress, and help from Lt. Col. Hunt Daniels, detailed to The White House NSC. With disaster brewing overseas, threats to New Delhi, the Taj Mahal, and to Cameron herself, she and Hunt find themselves enmeshed in terrorist plots and political wrangling at the highest levels.

Jack “Jackknife” McCabe is through with Special Ops. But in an America where politicians, pundits, and the president care more about polls than securing the borders of the Nation, “Jackknife” finds himself sucked back into the terror wars. To stop a nuclear holocaust in the heart of the country, he leads his family and fellow citizens in the battle against fanatic evil hiding behind Islam.

When Titus learns Kalifa is looting Egypt's archaeological treasures in order to fund their organization, he visits a dig where he shows interest in acquiring certain artifacts, which he hopes will get him an invitation to meet with Khalifa's leadership.

After his plane to Greece is hijacked, Canadian Michael Barrett himself in Ukraine on the run from the Ma a, in the company of his mysterious Ukrainian seat-mate, Dmitri. As Michael and Dmitri try to stay ahead of the pursuing Ma a, Michael struggles to figure out who to trust. In a country where bribery is rampant, and authorities are suspect, his only resource is the morose Dmitri, who is hiding his share of secrets.

Dr. Duncan MacGregor and his team must stop domestic terrorists from ravaging American democracy. Right-wing extremists plan to use Berserker, a rediscovered Viking drug, to transform peaceful demonstrators into violent insurrectionists. Funded by a neoconservative billionaire, they will provoke a totalitarian takeover of the US government.

ICABOD is destroyed, and key members of the R-Group are declared renegades, with Quip thrown in jail. In the new digital world, there is no tolerance for privately owned supercomputers. Globally, computers are hunted and destroyed for the greater good by the new cyber police CESPOOL. The information this group receives is manipulated by subversive hidden machine learning devices, the MAG running on the dark net.

When a quaint village in the United Kingdom is struck by a suicide bomber, the once proud nation is brought to its knees. Yet, that first attack was just the beginning of something far greater and much much worse. Something that no one could ever have predicted. The days to follow will determine if the UK has a future left in the modern world or if it will be reduced to anarchy and ashes. The one person who stands between the people of the UK and complete destruction is a damaged ex-solider, Captain Sarah Stone.

När den ryska ubåten Kursk gick under i Barents hav på grund av ett amerikanskt misstag stod det klart för världens alla spionorganisationer att Ryssland hade utvecklat en överlägsen ubåtsteknologi. Palestinierna som alltid varit i tekniskt underläge insåg att tillgången till en rysk superubåt för första gången skulle ge dem ett övertag. Uppdraget att genomföra den största terroristattacken i världshistorien går till den kvinnliga brigadgeneralen Mouna al Husseini. Hon inser direkt att problemen i motsättningen mellan rasistiska ryska officerare och högt utbildade palestinier är oöverstigliga.

2019 geht der Journalist Fennell in Kapstadt an Bord der Georges Lecointe, eines Reparaturschiffs für Kabelbrüche in der Tiefsee. Er soll eine Reportage schreiben, über Kommunikation und ihre Störungen. Im Fokus: die Tiefseekabel, die die globalen Datenflüsse leiten, ständig gefährdet durch Naturereignisse, Krieg und Terrorismus. Der Missionschef Conway scheint nicht glücklich über den Gast, der sich für alles zu interessieren scheint - vielleicht auch für Conways Frau Zanele?

"רשימה שחורה" מאת בראד תור, מחבר רבי המכר של הניו יורק טיימס, בהוצאת "דני ספרים", הוא רומן המתח המטלטל ביותר שלו עד כה, מותחן משובח, לוהט ומסחרר שכבש את העולם. אי-שם בתוככי ממשלת ארצות הברית חבויה רשימה שמורה היטב. חברי הקונגרס לעולם לא זוכים לראות אותה – רק הנשיא וצוות סודי של יועצים. ברגע ששמך מופיע ברשימה, הוא לא נמחק... עד מותך. מישהו הוסיף זה עתה לרשימה את שמו של סוכן האנטי-טרור סקוט הרוואת. הרוואת חייב לחמוק מן החוליות שנשלחו לחסל אותו כדי לגלות מי הציב אותו כיעד ומדוע רוצים לסלק אותו מהדרך. אדם אחד בלבד יכול לקשור יחד את כל החוטים

In a city plagued by constant terrorist threats, Aqsa Masood, a Pakistani emergency response specialist, encounters Kareem Ali, a captivating Arab security consultant with a dark past. When a series of bombings rocks their world, they are drawn into a dangerous covert operation that ignites a simmering tension between them.