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"Acting Sheriff Buddy Steel's idyllic mountain retreat is cut short when he's called back to Freedom, California to investigate a gang-related home invasion-at his father's address. To complicate matters, the break-in is just one in a series perpetrated by a group of tech-savvy millennials who also happen to be the untouchable offspring of elite cartel and gang leaders. Already on the trail of the serial burglars is LAPD Gang Enforcement and foremost...

Nancy goes undercover to investigate a grade-changing scheme at Brewster Academy. Someone has penetrated the school's computer and is extorting cash from students in exchange for upgrading their academic records.

With debt-burdened governments and businesses worldwide about to go bust, a cabal of Wall Street big shots plot to destroy the globe’s stock exchanges. To provide that one thing that goes wrong. In 24 hours, a powerful computer worm will smash the exchanges and spark an international panic, pushing a debt-laden world into the abyss. The Wall Street gang’s investment bank will be the last one standing, able to make a killing amid the ruins. But...

Mary Catherine (M.C.) Riggio and Kitt Lundgren, detectives in the Violent Crimes Bureau in Rockford, Illinois, are called out to a college student's apartment where a young man with no criminal record appears to have been murdered in his sleep. The trail seems cold, until another victim turns up, and then another. The growing list of kills leaves M.C. and Kitt little to follow - all the targets are kid-next-door types. Meanwhile, the case starts to...

"Max, a data whiz at the social media company Wren, has gotten a firsthand glimpse of the dark side of big tech. When he questions what his company does with the data they collect, he's fired...then black-balled across Silicon Valley. With time on his hands and revenge on his mind, Max and his longtime friend (and secretly the love of his life) Akiko, decide to get even by rebooting the internet. After all, in order to fix things, sometimes you have...

Net Force explorer Megan O'Malley singlehandedly investigates the Net crimes of a dangerous thief at Xanadu, the world's most exclusive resort.

Archos R-14. Nearly three years after this sophisticated artificial intelligence took over the world's computers and machines, ordinary people have waged an extraordinary guerrilla war and saved humankind from the brink of annihilation. But just moments after their triumph on the desolate ice fields of northern Alaska, a horrific new enemy emerges . . . in an unimaginable form. Fourteen-year-old Mathilda Perez attempts to save her brother's life while...

"Shock Pao is the best. In the virtual world the Slip there's nothing he can't steal for the right price. Outside the Slip, though, he's a Fail - no degree, no job. So when his ex offers him a job, breaking into a corporate databank, he accepts--it's either that, or find himself a nice bench to sleep under. Amiga works for psychotic crime lord Twist Calhoun so when Shock's war comes to her, it's her job to bring him to Twist, dead or alive."--Amazon.com...

"When Kurt Austin is injured attempting to rescue the passengers and crew from a sinking yacht, he wakes with fragmented and conflicted memories. Did he see an old friend and her children drown, or was the yacht abandoned when he came aboard? For reasons he cannot explain, Kurt doesn't trust either version of his recollection. Determined to know the truth, he begins to search for answers, and soon finds himself descending into a shadowy world of state-sponsored...

Azi Bello is an amiable outsider with a genius for hacking. Having spent the better part of his life holed up in a shed in his backyard, Azi has become increasingly enmeshed in the dark side of the internet. With the divide between online and offline worlds vanishing, so too is the line between those transforming civilization through technology and those trying to bring it to its knees. Dark networks rule. Those with the right connections can access...