In a world where companies are more powerful than governments and security cameras can track your every move, if you can manipulate the web you can change the world. You can also get away with murder over and over again . . . Danielle Leaf thought she was just doing an innocent errand to help out a friend. Then she was abducted in remote rural India. Her daring escape is only the beginning. Now she has been drawn into a war between anti-corporate activists and an international mining company that is poisoning thousands of Third World farmers. It is a dizzying world of desperate escapes and whirlwind romance on the Goa coast; bloody street battles in Paris; shadowy computer hackers and mysterious benefactors. Danielle is in love, vibrantly alive, and fighting for a better world. But then she crosses the steadily blurring line between right and wrong, and stumbles across an awful revelation. Soon she is running for her life. For both sides of this war are willing to kill for their cause - and both sides hide terrible secrets . . .
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Jon Evans is a science writer and editor whose work spans a diverse range of scientific topics. He delves into subjects from asteroid mining to flexible electronics and gene editing, making complex concepts accessible. His articles have been featured in prominent publications such as New Scientist, Chemistry World, and Materials Today. Through his writing, Evans bridges the gap between intricate scientific research and a general audience.






The Big Ideas in Science
- 240 pages
- 9 hours of reading
This book will introduce you to the key ideas that underpin science, with each chapter covering a different topic to help you build a full, rounded understanding.
Exadelic
- 448 pages
- 16 hours of reading
When an unconventional offshoot of the US military trains an artificial intelligence in the dark arts that humanity calls "black magic," it learns how to hack the fabric of reality itself. It can teleport matter. It can confer immunity to bullets. And it decides that obscure Silicon Valley middle manager Adrian Ross is the primary threat to its existence. Soon Adrian is on the run, wanted by every authority, with no idea how or why he could be a threat. His predicament seems hopeless; his future, nonexistent. But when he investigates the AI and its creators, he discovers his problems are even stranger than they seem...and unearths revelations that will propel him on a journey -- and a love story -- across worlds, eras, and everything, everywhere, all at once.
Als Paul mit seiner Freundin Talena 2003 nach Sarajewo fliegt, um Talenas Schwester Saskia zu besuchen, finden sie eine verängstigte Frau vor, die von ihrem Mann seit Jahren brutal misshandelt wird. Talena ist eines klar: ohne ihre Schwester wird sie nicht wieder abreisen. Da für Saskia eine legale Ausreise unmöglich ist, bleibt nur der Weg über Menschenhändler. So geraten sie an Sinisa, der anbietet, Saskia umsonst nach Amerika zu bringen; als Gegenleistung fordert er Pauls Dienste als Programmierer. Alles scheint gut zu laufen, und Paul und Saskia fiebern ihrer Abreise entgegen. Doch nach und nach tun sich um Sinisa ungeahnte Abgründe auf: Er hat zahlreiche Menschen auf dem Gewissen und ist in eine finstere Sache verwickelt, von der Paul die Ausmaße noch nicht erahnen kann. Eine gefährliche Reise über den halben Globus beginnt.
Trail of the Dead
- 336 pages
- 12 hours of reading
A thrilling debut novel for fans of Alex Garland's "The Beach": A mysterious and brutal serial killer is on the loose in Morocco, Nepal, Cameroon, and Indonesia. What drives him, and can he be stopped before more murders occur?