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81) Shadows of war
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American scientist Josh MacArthur, studying climate change in northern Vietnam in the not-too-distant future, is the only witness to China's attempt to make it appear that Vietnam started the war they began to quell the unrest in their country brought on the massive climate change that has not only wracked the globe, but devastated their country. Now Josh is hunted by the Chinese agent sent to capture him and a CIA agent because of the evidence he...
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When 30-year-old math genius James Fenster is blown up in his Amsterdam hotel room via the precise detonation of military-grade rocket fuel shortly before he was due to address a World Trade Organization conference, Henri Poincaré, aging Interpol agent and great-grandson of a legendary mathematician, investigates.
85) The Boost
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"Ralf is a software prodigy. He works in the US government office that updates the software in the population's boosts--networked supercomputers contained in a chip implanted within the brains of 99 percent of the world's population. Invented by Chinese researchers in 2032, the boost is credited with leading humanity to its most significant cognitive leap since the discovery of fire. Days before a national upgrade, Ralf notices that the update includes...
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"On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, researchers discover the wreckage of a mysterious aircraft, which the Russian Federation admits is a Soviet strategic bomber that disappeared more than fifty years ago while carrying two metric tons of weaponized anthrax. Desperate to prevent a political firestorm, the U.S. president dispatches a Covert-One team led by Lieutenant Colonel Jon Smith to the crash site. But others have reached the frigid, windswept...
95) Toda la verdad
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The world's largest defense contractor manipulates international conflicts-- even a world war, if necessary-- to keep his business in the black.
99) Transition
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Sharing nothing in common except links to an organization committed to protecting the world from itself, an assembly of dubious characters including a torturer, a reluctant assassin, and an amnesiac patient confront challenges beyond their imagining.
100) Ocean of storms
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"In the near future, political tensions between the United States and China are at an all-time high. Then a catastrophic explosion on the moon cleaves a vast gash in the lunar surface, and the massive electromagnetic pulse it unleashes obliterates Earth's electrical infrastructure. To plumb the depths of the newly created lunar fissure and excavate the source of the power surge, the feuding nations are forced to cooperate on a high-risk mission to...