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The Wraith: Welcome Home by Jeffery H. Haskell
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsKilling is her art, and she's about to paint her masterpiece! Madisun has returned home to New Orleans, almost a year to the day her family was murdered. The people who did it are still free. The man who betrayed her is still alive. Justice is coming to the criminals of the city, justice without mercy. Welcome home, Madi. Try not to burn the whole city down...Categorized as:
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Angel City Blues by Jeff Edwards
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLos Angeles: 2065 A wealthy young woman vanishes from her high-security apartment without leaving a single strand of DNA behind. No trace of the victim’s disappearance is recorded on any of the building’s many cameras or security sensors. Her apartment’s memory cores have been destroyed beyond any hope of recovery... -
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The Wraith by Jeffery H. Haskell
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsIf Punisher and Batman had a baby raised by John Wick... How far would you go to see justice done? How far is too far? For Madisun the answer is simple. There are people in this world that need killing, and she's just the woman for the job!From the bestselling author of the Full Metal Superhero comes an exciting new ongoing series set in the same world as Arsenal...Categorized as:
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![Bombing in Belgravia by Samantha Silver]()
Bombing in Belgravia by Samantha Silver
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThings are about to blow up for Cassie... When an ambassador's children are killed in a deliberate gas explosion in the middle of the night, Violet Despuis is on the case. Right from the start, not everything is as it seems, as Cassie confirms at the crime scene that one of the victims had been poisoned beforehand... -
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![Prepare by Geoffrey Germann]()
Prepare by Geoffrey Germann
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"... cutting-edge......skillful......high-octane....." Kirkus ReviewsAs a small boy, Darren Kiel was witness to his father's corruption and contemptible misconduct. As he grew, that experience gave rise to a seething need to atone for his father's crimes, to set the world aright, to enforce order... -
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Escalante by Andrew Vaillencourt
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere's a stranger in town, and he just wants to be left alone.But Dockside doesn't like strangers, and the dirty old town never leaves anyone alone.Join New Boston's most famous fixer for his first week in the most dangerous part of town... -
![Spark by Rachael Craw]()
Spark by Rachael Craw
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEvie doesn’t have a choice.One day she’s an ordinary seventeen year old, grieving for her mother. The next, she’s a Shield, the result of a decades-old experiment gone wrong, bound by DNA to defend her best friend from an unknown killer.The threat could come at home, at school, anywhere. All Evie knows is that it will be a fight to the death.And then there’s Jamie. irresistible. off-limits... -
![Lucky 7 by Rae D. Magdon]()
Lucky 7 by Rae D. Magdon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsElena Nevares is on the run. She’s a jacker, someone who connects to virtual reality with their brain, and everyone else on her crew was murdered during a mission gone wrong. Sasha Young is planning a rescue. She’s a handler, a team leader whose crew has been scattered by an evil corporation: Axys Generations... -
![Dome City Blues by Jeff Edwards]()
Dome City Blues by Jeff Edwards
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor fans of William Gibson, Phillip K. Dick, and Jak Koke…Los Angeles: 2063David Stalin was one of the best detectives in the business, running head-to-head with data-jackers, organ thieves, and the tech-enhanced gangs who ruled the shadowy streets of Los Angeles... -
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Android: Golem by Mel Odom
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen a talented New Angeles Detective wakes up in bed with a woman whose name he can't recall, this seemingly harmless mystery indicates a much larger problem. After all, as one of the few bioroids in the New Angeles Police Department, Drake 3GI2RC isn't accustomed to forgetting... or even sleeping... -
![The Thousand-Headed Man by Kenneth Robeson, Lester Dent]()
The Thousand-Headed Man by Kenneth Robeson, Lester Dent
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWith a mysterious black Chinaman, Doc Savage and his amazing crew journey to the jungles of Indo-China in a desperate gamble to destroy the infamous Thousand-headed Man. To the world at large, Doc Savage is a strange, mysterious figure of glistening bronze skin and golden eyes... -
![Deus Ex: Black Light by James Swallow]()
Deus Ex: Black Light by James Swallow
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsILLUMINATE THE SHADOWS The year is 2029, and the shining promise of a new age of human augmentation is in ruins in the wake of the devastating ‘Aug Incident’ – a horrific catastrophe triggered by a cabal of shadowy power brokers, where millions of cybernetically-enhanced people suffered a forced psychotic break... -
![The Escher Man by T.R. Napper]()
The Escher Man by T.R. Napper
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA cartel enforcer across South-east Asia must escape a world of paranoia and violence to save his family in this cerebral and multi-layered cyberpunk science fiction novel, from the award-winning author of 36 Streets. Perfect for fans of William Gibson's The Peripheral and Five Minds by Guy Morpuss.Your name is Endel ‘Endgame’ Ebbinghaus. It is Saturday, 3 September, 2101... -
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Flashback by Ian Hocking
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn 1947 a Santiago-bound plane crashes into the Andes minutes after confirming its landing time. In 2003 a passenger plane nosedives into the Bavarian National Forest during a routine flight.Although separated by more than 50 years, these tragedies are linked by seven letters: S, T, E, N, D, E, C... -
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![Shadow of the Jaguar by Steven Savile]()
Shadow of the Jaguar by Steven Savile
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingssees evolutionary zoologist Nick Cutter make the terrifying discovery that prehistoric creatures are alive and well in the twenty-first century. The natural world is turned on its head and humanity faces extinction as unexplained anomalies rip holes in the fabric of time and allow creatures from the earliest stages of Earth's development to roam the modern world... -
![La sirène rouge by Maurice G. Dantec]()
La sirène rouge by Maurice G. Dantec
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsElle a douze ans, une mère meurtrière et une armée de mercenaires sur les talons. Il a trente ans, l'habitude de tuer et pas grand-chose à perdre. Ensemble, ils vont traverser l'Europe, d'Amsterdam à Porto. Le genre de voyage où les cadavres servent de bornes kilométriques... -
![End of the World Blues by Jon Courtenay Grimwood]()
End of the World Blues by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom Jon Courtenay Grimwood, author of the celebrated Arabesk series, comes a stunningly inventive novel of futuristic noir set in a world of shifting realities. Here a man is drawn into a gritty postmodern subculture and a secret kingdom of otherworldly beings to find what he lost long ago: a reason to live.Kit Nouveau figured he'd already come to the end of the world... -
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Night Speed by Chris Howard
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOnly those young enough can survive the pulse-pounding rush of tetra, a dangerous and addictive new drug that fuels a nine-minute burst of superhuman strength and speed. Alana West has been trained to use the drug so she can pursue the young criminals who abuse its power—criminals like the breakneck who nearly killed her kid brother.On tetra, Alana is unstoppable... -
![Sins of the Father by Christa Faust]()
Sins of the Father by Christa Faust
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNever-before-revealed secrets of the characters, leading to the creation of the government’s covert Fringe Division. In 2008, Peter Bishop is estranged from his father and running shady operations in Southeast Asia. His latest scam lands him in a life-or-death situation involving weird events beyond the ken of modern science...Categorized as:
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![Android: Free Fall by William H. Keith Jr.]()
Android: Free Fall by William H. Keith Jr.
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt is the future, and while the world has changed, crime has not. When an influential lawyer is brutally murdered at the top of the Beanstalk, a towering exo-atmospheric elevator serving as Earth's hub of interplanetary trade, Detective Rick Harrison reluctantly accepts the case... -
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Nightside City by Lawrence Watt-Evans
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith the dawn, Nightside City would die. But someone was willing to kill to keep Carlisle Hsing in the dark...Nightside City was built on the dark side of the Epimetheus, back when everyone was sure that the planet had stopped rotating. Now, slowly but surely, Nightside City was moving toward the dayside--and doom... -
![TekMoney by William Shatner, Ron Goulart]()
TekMoney by William Shatner, Ron Goulart
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsActor, director, and bestselling author William Shatner returns to the world he created in Tekwar, plunging deeper into that deadly realm than ever before. Investigator Jake Cardigan must clear his son's name when he's accused of murder. Did he really do it? FInding the truth will push Cardigan to the edge--and beyond... -
![The Burning Man by Christa Faust]()
The Burning Man by Christa Faust
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe critically acclaimed Fringe television series explores the dramatic and grotesque as impossible crimes are investigated by the government's shadowy Fringe Division, established when Special Agent Olivia Dunham enlisted institutionalized "fringe" scientist Walter Bishop and his globe-trotting son, Peter, to help in investigations that defy all human logic - and the laws of nature... -
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The Zodiac Paradox by Christa Faust
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIn 1971 university students Walter Bishop and William Bell use an exotic chemical compound to link their subconscious minds. Unexpectedly, they open a rip in space through which comes a menace unlike any our world has ever seen - the Zodiac Killer. His singular goal is death, and it falls to Bishop, Bell, and Nina Sharp to stop him... -
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![Overpowered by Mark H. Kruger]()
Overpowered by Mark H. Kruger
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe world’s safest town might actually be a deadly kind of dangerous. And Nica Ashley is about to learn the hard way.Nica Ashley is accustomed to traveling the globe with her journalist mother, so when she gets sent to live in a small town with the father she barely knows, she’s in for a bit of a culture shock...Categorized as:
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Superposition by David Walton
Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsJacob Kelley's family is turned upside down when an old friend turns up, waving a gun and babbling about an alien quantum intelligence. The mystery deepens when the friend is found dead in an underground bunker…apparently murdered the night before he appeared at Jacob's house. Jacob is arrested for the murder and put on trial... -
![Off Rock by Kieran Shea]()
Off Rock by Kieran Shea
Rated: 3.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJimmy Vik works for a galactic mining company, with his ex-flame as his boss. When he discovers a significant gold pocket during a routine shaft demolition procedure he feels his luck has changed- though smuggling the gold off rock won t be easy. With the help of a scrounger and gambler and his sidekick, Jimmy puts together a plan... -
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Nowhere by Jon Robinson
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings'No one's coming for us.Not our families, not the police.No one.'Alyn, Jes, Ryan and Elsa are Nowhere. A concrete cube in the middle of a dense forest. Imprisoned inside are one hundred teenagers from all over the country. They're all criminals. But none of them remember committing any crimes. Who has put them there. What do their captors want? And how will they ever break free . . -
![The Vision by Tom King, Gabriel Hernández Walta]()
The Vision by Tom King, Gabriel Hernández Walta
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWritten by best-selling Author Tom King!One of the most celebrated comic books of the century, collected in full alongside an expansive array of special features! Vision wants to be human, and what's more human than family? So he heads back to the beginning - to the laboratory where Ultron created him as a weapon... -
![Absolute Planetary Book Two by Warren Ellis]()
Absolute Planetary Book Two by Warren Ellis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCollects issues 13-27 of the original series as well as 14 pages of additional content.As the series hurtles towards its conclusion, Snow initiates the second part of his comeback plan to stop The Four, makes a startling revelation about his past, and uncovers information on the world's first moon shot ..
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