The app is called WARLD. 300 million downloads and counting. Sure it's addicting, but it gets people out of their comfort zones and on their way to new places, making new connections and finding new friends. What's the harm?Detective Jonah Ramirez thinks the game has a sinister, hidden purpose. He crosses paths with Yu-ri Park, a rebellious hacker with suspicions of her own. Together they uncover what the game is doing to society, and conclude that the game is designed to accomplis...

Computer forensics expert Lucy McCart is called to investigate a high-profile murder and discovers that the elusive killer was paid by thousands of anonymous donors across the dark web. Her efforts are thwarted by untraceable digital currency and uncrackable encrypted communications.Meanwhile, more online assassination markets appear, crowdfunding the murders of crooked politicians, corporate fat cats, and rude movie stars... providing society with the ultimate in "distributed deni...

What if your best friend – brilliant, calculating, intense – was victimized by unspeakable police brutality?What if his scheme of revenge was so untraceable, so diabolical, that he just might get away with it?What if you had to keep his secret?And what if his goal wasn't revenge... but something more revolutionary?

Everyone knows the Sokolnikov Brothers, two geniuses who perfected driverless cars and transformed global transportation. Thanks to Mike and Sergei, highway travel around the world is cheap and safe.But the Departments of State and Homeland Security have a lot to say about how, where, and for whom these autonomous vehicles are allowed to operate. Eventually, even the billionaire brothers are unable to prevent their inventions from becoming oppressive tools of surveillance and contr...

Minecraft is a great game to play alone, but it gets even better if you do so with your friends. Whether you are on PvP (player versus player) mode where your goal is to be the last man or in this case, the last Steve standing, or you are just trying to create a "better" world compared to those made by your friends, it would be to your advantage if you take note of the tips mentioned below. From farming tips to how to swiftly take out the enemy, you'll find everything you need below. Let's...

"A hapless twenty-something is surprised to find that online gaming is good for something. . . . A clever mystery featuring a delightful amateur detective." — Kirkus ReviewsIf it were up to me this book would be called Hilarious Things That Happened That Were Not At All Dahlia's Fault—or HTTHTWNAADF, for short. OK, I probably shouldn't have taken money from a mysterious eccentric to solve a theft, given that I'm not a detective, and that I...

**THE INSPIRATION FOR THE UPCOMING CBS ORIGINAL SERIES TRACKER“The master of ticking-bomb suspense” (People) returns with a devilishly good thriller, and reward seeker Colter Shaw's most personal case to date.**Just hours after the harrowing events of The Never Game and The Goodbye Man, Colter Shaw finds himself in San Francisco, where he has taken on the mission his father began years ago: finding a missing courier bag containing evidenc...

“A white-knuckle adventure . . . This near-future was crafted by experts, and it shows.”—Daniel H. Wilson, New York Times best-selling author of Robopocalypse“Fantastic, compelling, and authoritative.” **—General David Petraeus (US Army, Ret.)An FBI agent hunts a new kind of terrorist through a Washington, DC, of the future in this ground-breaking book—at once a gripping technothriller and a fact-based tour of tomorrow.**America is...

From acclaimed thriller author David Morrell comes this tense, timely tale about counter-terrorism. An interrogator finds himself in a remote bunker and in an even more remote region of the human soul as he confronts the most hardened enemy he has ever faced and the most difficult choice he has ever been forced to make.This e-story includes an introduction in which David Morrell, author of the classic spy thriller, The Brotherhood of the Rose, discusses his espionage train...

Reward seeker Colter Shaw faces a ticking clock with murderous consequences in this riveting short story.A serial kidnapper is on the loose in a small town in Maine, targeting wealthy women and demanding a huge ransom in bitcoin for their safe return. When his latest victim’s husband claims that he can’t come up with the money, the word “deadline” takes on a disturbingly literal meaning. The local police are out of their depth, but Colter Shaw takes the lead in the...

When Russell joins Black Arts games, brainchild of two visionary designers who were once his closest friends, he reunites with an eccentric crew of nerds hacking the frontiers of both technology and entertainment. In part, he's finally given up chasing the conventional path that has always seemed just out of reach. But mostly, he needs to know what happened to Simon, his strangest and most gifted friend, who died under mysterious circumstances soon after Black Arts' breakout hit.As...

The city of Baltimore goes dark.Then, the trouble really starts.Newly married and back from his honeymoon, C.T. Ferguson is out on the town when the lights go out, plunging the city into a winter darkness.Other city systems quickly start failing. The beleaguered IT staff can’t stop it. C.T. suspects the worst . . .A ransomware attack.While the police struggle to maintain order in the days before Christmas, C...