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A secretive, high-tech company in central California named QuarkSpin has achieved a major breakthrough in a stunning technology -- the development of a prototype quantum computer. A powerful US senator, chair of the Defense Appropriations Committee, has covertly engaged them to develop a military application, funding the R&D from a DOD black budget. The project is code-named The Quantum Protocol. Its objective -- use the technology to unmask, from earth orbit, the ballistic-missile submarine fleets of our adversaries.

Join LP Hernandez on an exploration of the terrain of haunted worlds and the souls of haunted people. A man becomes so detached from this world that he is claimed by another. An astronaut picks the worst possible time to leave Earth. A man for whom eternity is just the beginning. These stories present mankind at its most vulnerable. These are stories of triumph and of succumbing, of the dying and those already dead.

Dr. Dean Graves is notorious for being the medical examiner that gets assigned the wackiest accidental death cases in Georgia. But even as the detectives on those cases can’t hold in their laughter, Dr Graves finds nothing funny about death and shows great respect for the dead at all times. When a new serial killer chooses Augusta as his playground, Dr. Graves and his assistant, Kat, get pulled into the investigation, throwing everything they have into finding the murderer before he strikes again.

The only daughter of United States Senator Adam Lucas is brutally murdered. When her killer is set free by an irreparably broken justice system, it sends the father on a search for answers and retribution and causes him to question the corruption that permeates the government he is sworn to serve. Hans Richter is a scientist working on a top-secret military project that could hold the key over death. When a test subject is sent home instead of being cremated, it sets in motion a chain of events that will send Hans on a flight for his life and threaten to unravel the fabric of time.

The dragon is rising. An ascendant China has decided it is time to grasp their reunification dream - the seizure of Taiwan. First, they must take the United States out of the game. They develop a plan to attack America and frame Islamic terrorists. With the United States 100 percent focused on the aftermath of the attack and retribution against ISIS, China believes their hands will be free to achieve their destiny. Once again, Joseph Michael Barber and his partner, Marcus Day, are reluctantly drawn into the action.

The fight is on for the soul of resurrected America, and the good guys are losing. Tom Steeple and his Chinese allies have taken control of Overtime Prime, and with the fall of Nick Angriff their opposition is powerless to stop them. Steeple’s dream of a totalitarian America under his hand as benevolent dictator can now become a reality, even if it means making common cause with America’s mortal enemies. No treachery is too great to fulfill his ambitions, and those of his friends.

Chad Huntley can’t get sick. When an influenza pandemic kills almost everyone around him, he finds himself on the run, hunted by soldiers and mercenaries, chased across a wasteland of empty houses and dying suburbs as he tries to escape Fort Worth. Mankind’s only hope is for him to partner with a brilliant virologist to find a cure - but not everyone wants a cure for the greater good.

In the wake of the collapse of the European Union, sparked by the chaos of Brexit, a new alliance is forged between Germany and France. Their vision - create a superpower on the European continent capable of eclipsing the United States, China, or any nation on Earth. Iran exploits the chaos and devises a plan to settle old scores with a diabolically clever and horrifying twist on cyber warfare. Miscalculations, mistrust, misunderstandings, and mistakes push the world to the brink of annihilation as events quickly spin out of control.

With the possible exception of the expatriate writers living in Paris in the 1920s, no single group of American literary figures has achieved as much fame or notoriety as the New York sophisticates who met to match wits and attempt to outshine each other as members of what came to be called the Algonquin Round Table. The humorists Robert Benchley and S. J. Perelman, playwrights Marc Connelly and George S. Kaufman, novelists Edna Ferber and Alexander Woollcott, and most famously, Dorothy Parker, were the literary luminaries who made up this group....

Has American democracy's long, ambitious run come to an end? Possibly yes. As William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe argue in this trenchant new analysis of modern politics, the United States faces a historic crisis that threatens our system of self-government - and if democracy is to be saved, the causes of the crisis must be understood and defused.

Meet Martin Koll, the young CEO of a successful tech company that has just landed a multimillion-dollar client. Life is good. Until it isn’t. When Koll falls under suspicion of murder, all the evidence seems against him. Fortunately, he has an airtight alibi – until suddenly he doesn’t. As the police gather evidence for an arrest, it falls on Koll to clear himself – to find out who has set him up, and why?

In the wake of a catastrophic terrorist attack on a beloved American icon, Walt Disney World, the President vows “never again”. A new covert government anti-terrorist group is established, buried deep inside the National Security Agency. Its mission – stop the next terrorist attack before it happens. Their remit is to do whatever it takes, and there are no rules. Frightening new technologies are leveraged to spy on terrorists and everyday citizens alike in pursuit of public safety.

In the wake of a flu pandemic that has wiped out 90% of the population and the ensuing failure of the government's quarantine centers due to both asymptomatic carriers and a rapidly mutating virus, the United States has become a vast wasteland in which rebel factions and the remnants of the federal government fight over what remains of the country. The Federal Emergency Management Agency's fortified cities, called safe zones, promise safety and purpose to any healthy survivors who are willing to forgo personal liberty in exchange for peace.

The world ends. War doesn't: Those left alive following the unrelenting disease, and the war which reduced whole cities to radioactive rubble, were faced with the oppressive task of rebuilding society. From behind tall fences and guard towers, the colonies of Alice and Hightown were established, and a sense of normalcy prevailed. But now, a corrupt band of mercenaries, once thought to be extinguished, present their greatest threat yet to the fate of the colonies and humanity at large.

Upon arriving at one of the work camps, Teddy Sanders takes in the razor wire, sentry towers, and chain-link fences: He’s back in the same hellhole that he has known for most of his adult life. His travel companion, Ein, a young man who has never experienced Teddy’s world of confinement, finds himself entering dangerous territory, where one wrong move could cost him his life. No longer the kind of man who looks the other way when someone is in trouble, Teddy vows to escape and take Ein with him to freedom.

Based on the five star novella The Infected and Those They Left Behind, book one in the Chronicles of the Infected series explores a world were genetic modifications are commonplace. When Sanctum Pharmaceuticals announces that they've found the cure for death, the world accepts it with open arms. The result is much more sinister. Now, one father must traverse cities full of violent “Infected” in an effort to save his children, before it's too late.

While investigating one murder, another more bizarre crime embroils Los Angeles PI Tom Logan in the strangest case of his career. Tom and his wife, Rita, are invited to a Halloween party by influential and reclusive 1930s newspaper mogul Charles Randolph. In Randolph’s mysterious castle perched atop a winding Central Coast hill, Logan encounters an odd array of suspects. These include a film actor, a journalist, a comic, and a lawyer, any of whom might be the killer.

Forced to make a choice between abandoning the people who gave them shelter or saving their own lives, Kate and the group bet on themselves. They hatch a daring escape plan, involving sympathetic locals who aren’t as docile as their militia overlords thought. Up north, Mac comes to grips with what he’s done, what’s happening around him, and what will likely happen next. He begins construction of a last-ditch retreat cabin that may well prove pivotal to his - and the Cantrells' - survival.

Jay Cantrell, worried that his hands, injured in their trek across the Midwest (season 1), are infected, tries to keep the secret from his group. They’d survived the journey from Illinois to Indiana, returned home to Illinois, and crossed the Michigan border - worrying about his health wouldn’t do anyone any good. Kate, tense from her harrowing trip across the country, is forced to take on the leadership of the group...while Mac prepares his compound for his friends’ arrival and runs into unexpected complications in the form of suspicious neighbors.

It was eugenics that compelled white doctors to attempt to murder Baby John. It was compassion that led to his kidnapping. And it is the cruelest of circumstances - the murder of Jennifer Rice - that 50 years later leads Shep Harrington to search for Baby John. As Shep soon learns, the quest brings him to the top of a slippery slope with an ill-defined edge. Question begets question, and the slide down the slope proves inevitable: What happened to the baby? Who took it? Why was he taken? And who killed Jennifer Rice?