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Los Tecnólogos
by Matthew Pearl¿La tecnología amenaza nuestra paz? Un apasionante thriller histórico de vertiginosa actualidad, que enfrenta pasado y presente, tradición y tecnología, por el autor de El club Dante. Boston, 1868. El Instituto de Tecnología de Massachusetts se ha adjudicado la misión de utilizar la ciencia en beneficio de todos. Sin embargo, cuando los instrumentos de navegación de los buques se descontrolan inexplicablemente y, poco después, otra misteriosa catástrofe deja devastado el corazón de la ciudad, una implacable sombra se cierne sobre el MIT. ¿Se trata de un sabotaje llevado a cabo con medios científicos o es la Naturaleza que se rebela contra el intento humano de controlarla? Armados de ingenio y de su extraordinaria formación científica, los mejores estudiantes de la primera promoción del Instituto Marcus Mansfield -un discreto veterano de guerra de gran talento; el irreprimible Robert Richards; Edwin Hoyt, el genio de la clase, y la recién llegada y brillante Ellen Swallow- formarán una sociedad secreta para salvar vidas inocentes e investigar la verdad. Una nueva guerra ha comenzado: entre el pasado y el presente, la tradición y la tecnología. Los Tecnólogos retrata un mundo peligrosamente cercano al nuestro. Reseñas:«Matthew Pearl es la nueva estrella deslumbrante de la ficción literaria. Un autor superdotado.»Dan Brown «La compleja trama ideada por Pearl deja a los lectores sorprendidos e intrigados... El club Dante, La sombra de Poe y El último Dickens fueron todas ellas bestseller. Su última obra, otro thriller histórico-literario, parece destinada a formar parte de este club de élite.»Booklist «Brillante y erudito.»The New York Times
Ted Bell's Monarch (An Alex Hawke Novel)
by Ryan SteckTed Bell's New York Times bestselling series returns with Lord Alexander Hawke facing his greatest challenge yet—to find the missing king of Britain.Following a successful but costly mission to destroy an enemy outpost in Antarctica, Alex Hawke is looking forward to some quiet time at Teakettle Cottage, his home in Bermuda, along with his family. But he's not a man who can avoid trouble.Former Chief Inspector of Scottland Yard Ambrose Congreve calls him with stunning news. Just days away from a controversial vote threatening to tear the United Kingdom apart at the seams, King Charles has disappeared while vacationing at Balmoral Castle. The prime minister believes she can keep the news quiet for no more than 72 hours. After that, Britain will be plunged into chaos.With the fate of the kingdom hanging in the balance, it's up to Lord Hawke to find and rescue the missing monarch before it's too late.
The Teddy Bear Habit
by James Lincoln CollierTwelve-year-old George Stable wants to be a rock star someday, but he gets horrible stage fright. Hiding his teddy bear in the guitar is a comforting idea until George discovers that someone has hidden stolen jewels in the stuffing of the beloved bear.
The Teddy Bear Lesson
by Lei SoliaMeet Lily. She loves her teddy bears and she has so many of them. In fact, she loves them more than anything else. But one day they all start disappearing until, at last, they have all vanished! Where are they and why have they gone? Join Lily as she unravels the mystery to get her teddy bears back!
Teddy Bear Murder (Frosted Love Cozy Mysteries #8)
by Summer PrescottSometimes the best of intentions lead to the worst tragedies. When a charity function goes horribly awry, cupcake shop owner, Missy Gladstone, finds herself elbows-deep in a murder investigation. With the dashing Detective Beckett at her side, Missy is determined to get to the bottom of a dangerous situation... before its too late!
Teen Killers At Large (Teen Killers Club series #3)
by Lily SparksThe Teen Killers Club faces the end in the final installment of this &“sick, twisted, fast-paced&” (Kendare Blake, #1 New York Times bestselling author) series.With authorities revisiting her conviction for the brutal murder of her best friend, Signal Deere awaits her fate with the Class A killers she calls her closest friends. When the footage that proves her innocence is wiped, it&’s clear someone she trusts is sabotaging her case—and Signal is headed back to jail if she can&’t figure out who. Signal desperately needs help from someone as obsessed with the truth as he is with her: Erik.But after the Bonnie-and-Clyde act that made them a viral sensation, Erik is a wanted man. Camp wants to kill him, the police want to put him away, and more than one fan wants to claim his black heart. All Erik wants is the freedom he&’s never had. Can Signal convince the Teen Killers Club member with the highest body count to turn himself in and testify?Being with Erik will put a target on her back but losing him just might kill her. As the Teen Killers Club faces its final trial, Signal discovers her options may be narrowing—to life behind bars or till death do us part.
Teen Killers Club: A Novel
by Lily SparksFramed for the murder of her best friend, a young girl joins a super-secret society of teenage assassins to avoid a lifetime behind bars--and discovers her own true self--in this mesmerizing debut novel.Seventeen-year-old Signal Deere has raised eyebrows for years as an unhappy Goth misfit from the trailer park. When she's convicted of her best friend Rose's brutal murder, she's designated a Class A--the most dangerous and manipulative criminal profile. To avoid prison, Signal signs on for a secret program for 18-and-under Class As and is whisked off to an abandoned sleep-away camp, where she and seven bunkmates will train as assassins. Yet even in the Teen Killers Club, Signal doesn't fit in. She's squeamish around blood. She's kind and empathetic. And her optimistic attitude is threatening to turn a group of ragtag maniacs into a team of close-knit friends. Maybe that's because Signal's not really a killer. She was framed for Rose's murder and only joined the program to escape, track down Rose's real killer, and clear her name. But Signal never planned on the sinister technologies that keep the campers confined. She never planned on the mysterious man in the woods determined to pick them off one by one. And she certainly never planned on falling in love.Signal's strategy is coming apart at the seams as the true killer prepares to strike again in Teen Killers Club.
Teen Killers in Love (Teen Killers Club series #2)
by Lily SparksThe Teen Killers Club is back in this &“Sick, twisted, fast-paced&” thriller (Kendare Blake, #1 New York Times bestselling author)—and this time, nobody&’s taking any prisoners on a desperate run for their own lives.The Teen Killers Club is on the brink of destruction, with one faction pitted against another in a deadly game of survival. Erik and Signal are part of the group who&’ve had their &“kill switches&” disabled, and the others are under orders to hunt them down—or meet their own demise. Now, Erik and Signal have to find a way to neutralize the others&’ switches and clear Signal's name. In the middle of a manhunt that is going viral and turning them into an internet-age Bonnie and Clyde. Erik and Signal are both Class As—the most dangerous and manipulative criminal profile—but Erik is the ultimate Class A, with ten kills to his name and a secret in his past that will change everything. As if being hunted down wasn&’t enough, Erik is determined to get Signal admit that she loves him. But Signal is hellbent on crushing her own growing attraction. It&’s a race against time to save the Teen Killers Club from its worst nightmare—having to kill the friends they need more than ever.
The Teen Model Mystery
by Carolyn KeeneTraveling to the site of a commercial shoot, where her model friend Cindy will star, Nancy is alarmed by Cindy's disappearance and launches an investigation that takes her into the shady side of teen fashion.
A Teeny Bit of Trouble: A Novel (Teeny Templeton Mysteries #2)
by Michael Lee WestIn this hilarious follow-up to GONE WITH A HANDSOMER MAN, Charleston pastry chef Teeny Templeton witnesses a murder and discovers that her laywer-boyfriend, Coop O'Malley, has been keeping secrets. It's not every day that I bake a dozen Red Velvet cakes, learn my boyfriend may have a love child, and I witness a murder.After Charleston pastry chef, Teeny Templeton, witnesses a murder, she discovers that her lawyer-boyfriend, Coop O'Malley, has been keeping secrets: the victim's ten-year-old daughter may be his child. As more lies explode, Teeny finds herself trapped in Bonaventure, Georgia, a zany"little Savannah," where she must deal with her commitment phobia, gather DNA from a ten-year old child genius, outwit a stalker, decode an encrypted diary, and fend off advances of an ex-beau, a handsome plastic surgeon who's crazy-in-love with her. Teeny's life gets maddeningly complicated by a series of not-so-teeny troubles: an uneasy love triangle, a gossip-mongering tarantula breeder, an wise-cracking Southern Belle with early Alzheimer's, Coop's loveable Chihuahua-toting granny, and clues that point to the illegal trafficking of human organs. But when a suspect is arrested, the bodies keep piling up and Teeny doesn't know who to trust. As the murderers close in, Teeny unearths a revelation that becomes a game-changer and flips her world upside-down.
Teeth
by Edo van Belkom&“I expect it to knock people&’s socks off, the way Stephen King&’s Carrie did . . . Teeth will haunt you for the rest of your life&” (Robert J. Sawyer, Nebula Award-winning author of Calculating God). They think they&’re getting lucky. They&’re dead wrong. Det. Joe Williams has seen all kinds of murder scenes. Some brutal, some gory, all disturbing and horrific in their way. Nothing could have prepared him for what&’s waiting in Apartment 413. A man—what&’s left of him—lying in a pool of his own blood, his face frozen in a silent scream. That&’s just the first. Soon there are more victims, all male, all mutilated, seeming to have little in common except an agonizing death by castration. All of them went looking for pleasure. Instead they found a killer wreaking vengeance in the most bloodthirsty way. And the only clue Williams has found is a tiny, gleaming metal tooth . . . Edo van Belkom—winner of the Bram Stoker and Aurora Awards—delves into the heart of man&’s most primal fear in a shocking, suspenseful, terrifying novel that bites down hard . . . and won&’t let go. &“One of 2001&’s best horror novels.&” —Science Fiction Chronicle &“Teeth works on several levels: as an over-the-edge contemporary horror novel, as a police procedural, and as a thriller. Edo van Belkom&’s mastery of the art of storytelling is brought to bear on this unforgettable novel.&” —Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of Calculating God &“Edo van Belkom drags us screaming into the maw of horror.&” —Richard Laymon, international bestselling author of The Traveling Vampire Show
The Teeth Of The Tiger
by Tom ClancyMohammed sits in a café in Vienna, to propose joining his network of agents and sympathizers in Europe and Middle East with a Colombian's drug network in America for terrorism, profits and destruction. Off book U.S. top secret agency The Campus for President John Patrick Ryan has the best of the best. Dominic Caruso is a rookie FBI agent, barely a year out of Quantico, whose decisive actions resolve a particularly brutal kidnap/murder case. His brother Brian is a Marine captain just back from his first combat action in Afghanistan, and already a man to watch. Their cousin is Jack Ryan, Jr. Jack was raised on intrigue. As his father moved through the ranks of the CIA and then into the White House, Jack received a life course in the world and the way it operates from agents, statesmen, analysts, Secret Service men, and black ops specialists such as John Clark and Ding Chavez. But nothing has prepared him for real world danger.
Teetotaled: A Mystery (Discreet Retrieval Agency Mysteries #2)
by Maia Chance“Chance’s fun sequel to 2015’s Come Hell or Highball . . . an abundance of action. P.G. Wodehouse fans will find a lot to like.” —Publishers WeeklyAfter her philandering husband died and left her penniless in Prohibition-era New York, Lola Woodby escaped with her Swedish cook to the only place she could—her deceased husband’s secret love nest in the middle of Manhattan. Her only comforts were chocolate cake, dime store detective novels, and the occasional highball (okay, maybe not so occasional). But rent came due and Lola and Berta were forced to accept the first job that came their way, leading them to set up shop as private detectives operating out of Alfie’s cramped love nest.Now Lola and Berta are in danger of losing the business they’ve barely gotten off the ground—work is sparse and money is running out. So when a society matron offers them a job, they take it—even if it means sneaking into a slimming and exercise facility and consuming only water and health food until they can steal a diary from Grace Whiddle, a resident at the “health farm.” But barely a day in, Grace and her diary escape from the facility—and Grace’s future mother-in-law is found murdered on the premises. Lola and Berta are promptly fired. But before they can climb into Lola’s brown and white Duesenberg Model A and whiz off the health farm property, they find themselves with a new client and a new charge: to solve the murder of Grace’s future mother-in-law.Teetotaled, Maia Chance’s sparkling new installment in the Discreet Retrieval Agency Mysteries will delight readers with its clever plotting, larger-than-life characters, and rich 1920s atmosphere.
Tefuga: A Novel of Suspense
by Peter DickinsonIn this evocative tale of suspense from CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson, a British diplomat's wife in Nigeria inadvertently precipitates a senseless tragedy, and six decades later, her son becomes caught up in a maelstrom of violent political corruption Filmmaker Nigel Jackland has come to northern Nigeria to work on a new project: a documentary based on the personal diary entries of his mother. Sixty years have passed since Betty Jackland first accompanied her husband, Ted, to this colonial African backwater, resolving to be a perfect helpmate and wife to Britain's district officer in the emirate of Kiti. But Betty's fascination with the local Kitawa tribe, innate sense of justice, and irrepressibly independent spirit mean she could never turn a blind eye to the suffering of oppressed women--particularly the abused wives of the ruling emir. She never imagined that her strong words and actions could have violent consequences in the shadow of Tefuga Hill--or that the echoes of the tragedy would resound dangerously in the life of her own son many years on. Linking two stories separated by more than half a century and relating them in alternating chapters, Tefuga is an enthralling, evocative, and suspenseful tale of corruption, imperialism, race, and murder. A master of both style and substance, Dickinson brilliantly re-creates times and places in stunning detail, transporting readers to an Africa so remarkably realistic they can almost feel the equatorial winds on their faces.
Tehran at Twilight
by Salar Abdoh"Abdoh paints a gripping portrait of a nation awash in violence and crippled by corruption....Captivating."--Publishers WeeklyIncluded Library Journal's "Books That Buzzed at BEA" Roundup, the first word on titles and trends from Barbara Hoffert, EditorIncluded in Publishers Weekly's Fall Preview (Literary Fiction)"Abdoh deftly captures the uneasy atmosphere of 2008 Tehran, swirling with betrayal and corruption."--Library Journal, Books for the Masses/Editors' Picks BEA 2014"Tehran at Twilight is a remarkable meditation on violence, and on all the ways one bears witness to pain...At the center lies the story of two friends whose paths have diverged, and of love restored between a mother and a son. A smart, eloquent novel."--Dalia Sofer, author of The Septembers of Shiraz"Connecting the dots of the shadow lives of Iranian, American, and Iranian American double and triple agents, and their double and triple stories in Iran and Manhattan, Baghdad and Berkeley, Abdoh also tells a tale of mothers and sons, using espionage for infrared insight into concealed identities. The startling truth embedded in this tight novel: We Are All Iranians."--Brad Gooch, author of City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara"Tehran--bloated, capricious, corrupt, and with its various secret police agencies competing against one another--becomes a ripe setting for this roman noir...Move over Scandinavia: there's a new kid on the noir block."--Hooman Majd, author of The Ministry of Guidance Invites You to Not Stay"A smart political thriller for our modern times."--Laila Lalami, author of Secret SonThe year is 2008. Reza Malek's life is modest but manageable--he lives in a small apartment in Harlem, teaches "creative reportage" at a local university, and is relieved to be far from the blood and turmoil of Iraq and Afghanistan where he worked as a reporter, interpreter, and sometime lover for a superstar journalist who has long since moved on to more remarkable men.After a terse phone call from his best friend in Iran, Sina Vafa, Reza reluctantly returns to Tehran. Once there, he finds far more than he bargained for: the city is on the edge of revolution; his friend Sina is embroiled with Shia militants; his missing mother, who was alleged to have run off with a lover before the revolution, is alive and well--while his own life is in danger.Against a backdrop of corrupt clerics, shady fixers, political repression, and the ever-present threat of violence, Abdoh offers a telling glimpse into contemporary Tehran, and spins a compelling morality tale of identity and exile, the bonds of friendship, and the limits of loyalty.
The Tehran Conviction: A Novel of Suspense
by Tom Gabbay“Told against the background of a real-life CIA coup, The Tehran Conviction mixes historical fact with vivid storytelling in ways that will delight readers of both.”—Stephen Kinzer, New York Times Bestselling author of All the Shah’s MenBestselling thriller writer Jack Higgins calls Tom Gabbay, “John le Carré with a witty ironic edge.” In The Tehran Conviction, the acclaimed author of The Berlin Conspiracy and The Lisbon Crossing sends Agent Jack Teller to Iran during two equally volatile times in the nation’s recent history: on the eve of a CIA-sponsored coup in1953, and in 1979, the year of the infamous Islamic revolution. Denver’s Rocky Mountain News advises you to, “add [Gabbay’s] name to the must-read list of thriller writers.” Read The Tehran Conviction and see why.
The Tehran Initiative (David Shirazi Series #2)
by Joel C. RosenbergThe world is on the brink of disaster and the clock is ticking. Iran has just conducted its first atomic weapons test. Millions of Muslims around the world are convinced their messiah-known as "the Twelfth Imam"-has just arrived on earth. Israeli leaders fear Tehran, under the Twelfth Imam's spell, will soon launch a nuclear attack that could bring about a second holocaust and the annihilation of Israel. The White House fears Jerusalem will strike first, launching a preemptive attack against Iran's nuclear facilities that could cause the entire Middle East to go up in flames, oil prices to skyrocket, and the global economy to collapse. With the stakes high and few viable options left, the president of the United States orders CIA operative David Shirazi and his team to track down and sabotage Iran's nuclear warheads before Iran or Israel can launch a devastating first strike.
Tehran Noir (Akashic Noir)
by Salar Abdoh"This entry in Akashic's noir series takes the gritty sensibilities born out of American film and fiction to Tehran."--Publishers WeeklyLaunched with the summer '04 award-winning best seller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.Includes brand-new stories by: Gina B. Nahai, Salar Abdoh, Lily Farhadpour, Azardokht Bahrami, Yourik Karim-Masihi, Vali Khalili, Farhaad Heidari Gooran, Aida Moradi Ahani, Mahsa Mohebali, Majed Neisi, Danial Haghighi, Javad Afhami, Sima Saeedi, Mahak Taheri, and Hossein Abkenar.From the Introduction by Salar Abdoh:"There is something of both the absolutely spectacular and positively disgraceful about Tehran. But most writers around the world are inclined to think that their own sprawling metropolis is the capital of every imaginable vice and crime, of impossible love and tenderness and cruelty and malice in measures that seldom exist anywhere else. For me, Tehran's case is no different--except that there really is a difference here. The city may be a hothouse of decadence, a den of inequity, all that. But it still exists under the watchful eye of a very unique entity, the Islamic Republic. The city enforces its own morality police, and there are regular public hangings of drug dealers and thieves. Because of this, there is a raging sense of a split personality about the place--the imposed propriety of the mosque rubbing against the hidden (and more often not so hidden) rhythms of the real city...There is always an element of the end of the world about this place. A feeling of being once removed from the edge of the precipice. Elsewhere I have called it the "Seismic City"--the seismic sanctuary. All of this will end one day. Yes. And maybe sooner than later. And when it does, by God, we will miss it."hothouse of decadence, a den of inequity, all that. But it still exists under the watchful eye of a very unique entity, the Islamic Republic. The city enforces its own Morality Police and there are regular public hangings of drug dealers and thieves. Because of this, there is a raging sense of a split-personality about the place--the imposed propriety of the mosque rubbing against the hidden (and more and more often not so hidden) rhythms of the real city."
Teile & Herrsche (Ty & Zane (Deutsch) #4)
by Madeleine Urban Abigail Roux Feliz FaberFortsetzung zu Fisch & ChipsBuch 4 in der Serie - Ty & ZaneDie Stadt Baltimore in Maryland ist in erschreckender Bedrängnis. Zunehmende Gewalt schürt die Glut der öffentlichen Empörung, und alle Strafverfolgungsbehörden, einschließlich des FBI, müssen dafür den Kopf hinhalten. Um die PR zu verbessern, lässt sich das FBI etwas Neues einfallen: eine städtische Softball-Liga und Workshops für Führungskräfte. Doch neue Verpflichtungen bedeuten nur, dass die Special Agents Ty Grady und Zane Garrett noch weniger Zeit füreinander haben - dabei würden sie lieber weiter alle Möglichkeiten erkunden, mehr als nur Partner nach Schema F zu sein. Dann fliegt ihnen die nächste Verbrechensserie um die Ohren - buchstäblich - und die Stadt, das FBI und die wechselhafte berufliche und private Partnerschaft von Ty und Zane versinken in Chaos. Sie stecken bis zum Hals in Schwierigkeiten und tappen auf der Suche nach Bombenlegern und Bankräubern im Dunkeln. Ty und Zane können nur das Licht am Ende des Tunnels erreichen, indem sie die Augen schließen und einander vertrauen bis zum feurigen Ende.
Tek Kill: Tek Money, Tek Kill, And Tek Net (The TekWar Series #8)
by William ShatnerIn order to expose a sinister, far-reaching criminal conspiracy, detective Jake Cardigan , the twenty-second century&’s most able private detective, must prove that an open-and-shut murder case is anything but Once again the inimitable William Shatner, Star Trek&’s original Captain Kirk and a true star of science fiction adventure, brings the future vibrantly alive in the eighth nonstop, action-packed futuristic caper featuring private investigator Jake Cardigan, sworn enemy of the all-powerful TekLords. Walt Bascom, head of the Cosmos Detective Agency, is in serious trouble. Video surveillance in the home of superrich businessman Dwight Grossman clearly shows Bascom murdering the entrepreneur in cold blood. Bascom swears he didn&’t do it, and he&’s relying on his agency&’s best investigator, Jake Cardigan, to prove it somehow. Jake and his partner, Sid Gomez, have their work cut out for them. The only &“evidence&” on their side is the testimony of the dead man&’s sister, Susan, who claims she&’s had telepathic visions of her brother&’s true death. But Susan is an admitted devotee of the powerful, reality-altering electronic drug Tek. Whoever wanted her brother dead—and Bascom accused—went to great lengths to set up the scheme, and those responsible are not going to sit idly by while a pair of snooping private eyes and a burned-out Tek fiend start digging for answers. To keep the killers&’ dark and very dirty secrets hidden, one corpse may not be enough.This ebook features an illustrated biography of William Shatner including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author&’s personal collection.
Tek Money: Tek Money, Tek Kill, And Tek Net (The TekWar Series #7)
by William ShatnerPrivate investigator Jake Cardigan must race against time to save the life of his son and get the deadliest weapons in the world out of the hands of the most dangerous criminals in the universe In the seventh book of the TekWar Series by bestselling author and Star Trek icon William Shatner, terror hits too close to home for protagonist Jake Cardigan, private eye of the future. Homicide is as common in the twenty-second century as it was one hundred years earlier, thanks in large part to the ruthless TekLords, criminals who traffic in the popular electronic fantasy-enabling drug Tek. When a Tek user who was once a family friend is brutally murdered just outside the door of Dan Cardigan, son of private eye Jake Cardigan, the young man is shocked to discover that the police consider him a prime suspect. Worse still, Dan has become a disposable pawn in a very deadly game. With his son&’s life on the line, Jake and his loyal partner, Sid Gomez, must somehow get to the bottom of the disappearance of terrifying new weaponry from a California research facility and a related rash of murders—a mission that will put them at odds not only with a formidable criminal conspiracy, but with the police and the most lethal factions of the US government itself. This ebook features an illustrated biography of William Shatner including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author&’s personal collection.
Tek Net: Tek Money, Tek Kill, And Tek Net (The TekWar Series #9)
by William ShatnerPrivate investigator Jake Cardigan and his partner, Sid Gomez, must race to save a woman trapped in the deadly crossfire of a violent war between rival TekLords William &“Captain Kirk&” Shatner of Star Trek fame returns with his ninth action-packed TekWar adventure, certain to thrill his devoted legions of science fiction readers. In the year 2122 an addictive new form of the fantasy-enabling electronic drug Tek is about to hit the market. This version, delivered to users over computer networks, would eliminate the need for Tek chips, thereby putting the old-school TekLords out of business. Jill Bernardino, the ex-wife of Sid Gomez, loyal partner of private eye Jake Cardigan, has been looking into this new development closely—a little too closely—and now finds herself in serious, possibly inescapable peril. Caught in the middle of a vicious international drug war, Jill is taken prisoner, and only Cardigan and Gomez can rescue her. But their efforts will put them directly in the crosshairs of warring squads of Tek-trade killers in a bloody cartel war.This ebook features an illustrated biography of William Shatner including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author&’s personal collection.
Tek Power: Tek Vengeance, Tek Secret, And Tek Power (The TekWar Series #6)
by William ShatnerPrivate eye Jake Cardigan must derail an insidious plot by the ruthless Tek cartel to replace the US president with an android designed to do the group&’s dark bidding William Shatner, the original face of Captain Kirk on TV&’s Star Trek, displays another side of his remarkable talent with his sixth excursion into a future world where the ubiquitous techno-drug Tek rules, and one man remains dedicated to wiping the scourge and its criminal suppliers from the face of tomorrow&’s Earth. Jake Cardigan—ex-cop, private investigator, and former Tek user—has been given a special assignment by the head of the Cosmos Detective Agency: to track down the murderer of his daughter-in-law. It is a job that takes Jake and his partner, Sid Gomez, from Los Angeles to the East Coast and into the heart of a terrifying conspiracy surrounding the president of the United States. Unbeknownst to the nation and the world, President Warren Brookmeyer, a Tek addict, is in rehab and has been temporarily replaced by an android replica, indistinguishable from the real chief executive. But the brazen scheme to shield the country from the truth is, in reality, the brainchild of the ruthless and powerful TekLords, who intend to keep the simulacrum in power indefinitely in order to alter official policy concerning the dangerous mind-enhancing electronic drug. If Jake and Sid fail to expose and eliminate this treasonous plot, the president will surely die—along with liberty, the law, and the twenty-second-century American way.This ebook features an illustrated biography of William Shatner including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author&’s personal collection.
Tek Secret: Tek Vengeance, Tek Secret, And Tek Power (The TekWar Series #5)
by William ShatnerWhile searching for a missing heiress, Jake Cardigan uncovers a stunning conspiracy in the action-filled conclusion to the TekWar series Barry Zangerly&’s friends told him to stay away from Alicia Bower. The heir to the Mechanix International robotics fortune, she is beautiful, unstable, and too charming to resist. When she vanishes, Zangerly combs Greater Los Angeles for his damaged beauty, a hunt that finally leads him to an abandoned warehouse, where a vicious robot beats him senseless to get him to call off his search. Instead, Zangerly does the opposite—he calls Jake Cardigan. The sharpest P.I. in the city, Cardigan is fighting to recover from the death of his fiancée. He couldn&’t save Beth Kittredge from the Teklords&’ bomb, but he will stop at nothing to see that Alicia Bower doesn&’t suffer the same fate.This ebook features an illustrated biography of William Shatner including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author&’s personal collection.
Tek Vengeance: Tek Vengeance, Tek Secret, And Tek Power (The TekWar Series #4)
by William ShatnerWith his fiancée about to testify against the Teklord drug cartels, PI Jack Cardigan is lured to Brazil in a deadly scheme that could spark a new TekWar. A man in Berlin has just learned something that could save Jake Cardigan&’s life. But before he can pass on this vital information, he dies under suspicious circumstances—setting off a chain reaction that will change Cardigan&’s life forever, threatening to destroy every person he loves. Cardigan&’s fiancée, Beth, goes to Berlin to testify against the ruthless drug cartel controlled by Sonny Hokori and the Teklords. Cardigan plans to be there to protect her against the nefarious assassins of the Teklords, but an urgent case calls him to Rio. By the time he realizes the Brazilian case is no more than a set-up to take him away from Beth, it may be too late to save her—and prevent a new round of TekWars from engulfing the earth. This ebook features an illustrated biography of William Shatner including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author&’s personal collection.