Bettina Blanch Tyroller Books

Lloyd Acheson's firm, Omega Logic, needs a next-generation chip to keep his stock price propped up. Hank Menzinger squandered his research lab's cash reserves in a failed IPO and needs Omega Logic's support to save his institution. But master chip designer Francis Benoit's last chip for Omega was dumbed-down by software, and he's vowed to never let it happen again. New at the research lab is Andy Caspar, a young engineer who dreams of becoming a legendary "ironman" - one of the handful of engineers (like those behind Netscape, Apple, and Intel) whose technological breakthroughs have secured them a place in history. Andy begins work on a new project, not realizing the extent to which he's caught up in the power struggle of the older men. The story reveals the brutal, absurd side of the industry, as Andy pushes forth with his dream but is betrayed at every turn.

Millions of years ago, a meteorite fell to earth and a beautiful blue stone shattered from it. One hundred thousand years ago, a girl named Tall One found the crystal on the African plain---and it formed her destiny, as well as the destiny of generations to come. From ancient Israel to imperial Rome, medieval England, fifteenth-century Germany, the eighteenth-century Caribbean, and the nineteenth-century American West, the destiny of the stone and the history of the world unfold. Each story is full of the betrayals and obsessions of the human heart, and the quests of the human spirit. In "The Blessing Stone," Barbara Wood has both told the intimate details of her characters' lives and created a sense of the epic sweep of human history.

'Civilization slipped into its second dark age on an unsurprising track of blood but with a speed that could not have been foreseen by even the most pessimistic futurist. By Halloween, every major city from New York to Moscow stank to the empty heavens and the world as it had been was a memory.' The event became known as The Pulse. The virus was carried by every cell phone operating within the entire world. Within ten hours, most people would be dead or insane. A young artist Clayton Riddell realises what is happening. And together with Tom McCourt and a teenage girl called Alice, he flees the devastation of explosive, burning Boston, desperate to reach his son before his son switches on his little red mobile phone...

London im ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert: In einem der verruchtesten Viertel der Stadt wird eine Prostituierte grausam ermordet. Die königliche Familie bittet die junge Adlige Sarah Kincaid um Hilfe: Ein Neffe der Königin steht unter Verdacht, hinter der Mordserie im Stadtteil White Chapel zu stecken. Sarah willigt nur widerstrebend ein. Wie sich herausstellt, sind die Privaträume des Mannes angefüllt mit ägyptischen Relikten, und es zeigt sich, dass er der Vorsitzende einer Gesellschaft von Gentlemen ist, die sich der Erforschung altägyptischer Geheimnisse gewidmet haben. Der königliche Neffe scheint unter Wahnvorstellungen zu leiden und spricht fortwährend von einer ägyptischen Gottheit, die zurückkehren wird - aber ist er ein kaltblütiger Mörder? Die Spur führt Sarah bis nach Ägypten, wo ein uraltes Geheimnis auf sie wartet ...

A brutal policeman goes on a rampage in search of the wife who fled from him.

Two young girls disappear, but return home unharmed some days later. Around the same time, a convicted paedophile is released back into the community. The residents of an estate in Kingsmarkham are up in arms, and even prepared to take the law into their