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    Chatter: Uncovering the Echelon Surveillance Network and the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 657min
    How does our government eavesdrop? Whom do they eavesdrop on? And is the interception of communication an effective means of predicting and preventing future attacks? These are some of the questions at the heart of Patrick Radden Keefe’s brilliant new book, Chatter. In the late 1990s, when Keefe was a graduate student in England, he heard stories about an eavesdropping network led by the United States that spanned the planet. The system, known as Echelon, allowed America and its allies to intercept the private phone calls and e-mails of civilians and governments around the world. Taking the mystery of Echelon as his point of departure, Keefe explores the nature and context of communications interception, drawing together fascinating strands of history, fresh investigative reporting, and riveting, eye-opening anecdotes. The result is a bold and distinctive book, part detective story, part travel-writing, part essay on paranoia and secrecy in a digital age. Chatter starts out at Menwith Hill, a secret eavesdropping station covered in mysterious, gargantuan golf balls, in England’s Yorkshire moors. From there, the narrative moves quickly to another American spy station hidden in the Australian outback; from the intelligence bureaucracy in Washington to the European Parliament in Brussels; from an abandoned National Security Agency base in the mountains of North Carolina to the remote Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia. As Keefe chases down the truth of contemporary surveillance by intelligence agencies, he unearths reams of little-known information and introduces us to a rogue’s gallery of unforgettable characters. We meet a former British eavesdropper who now listens in on the United States Air Force for sport; an intelligence translator who risked prison to reveal an American operation to spy on the United Nations Security Council; a former member of the Senate committee on intelligence who says that oversight is s ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robertson Dean. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000439/bk_bkot_000439_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Son of Good Fortune
    A Recommended Book From: USA Today * The Chicago Tribune * Book Riot * Refinery 29 * InStyle * The Minneapolis Star-Tribune * Publishers Weekly * Baltimore Outloud * Omnivoracious * Lambda Literary * Goodreads * Lit Hub * The Millions FINALIST FOR THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE WINNER OF THE NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARD From award-winning author Lysley Tenorio, comes a big hearted debut novel following an undocumented Filipino son as he navigates his relationship with his mother, an uncertain future, and the place he calls home Excel spends his days trying to seem like an unremarkable American teenager. When he's not working at The Pie Who Loved Me (a spy-themed pizza shop) or passing the time with his girlfriend Sab (occasionally in one of their town's seventeen cemeteries), he carefully avoids the spotlight. But Excel knows that his family is far from normal. His mother, Maxima, was once a Filipina B-movie action star who now makes her living scamming men online. The old man they live with is not his grandfather, but Maxima's lifelong martial arts trainer. And years ago, on Excel's tenth birthday, Maxima revealed a secret that he must keep forever. "We are 'TNT'—tago ng tago,” she told him, "hiding and hiding.” Excel is undocumented—and one accidental slip could uproot his entire life. Casting aside the paranoia and secrecy of his childhood, Excel takes a leap, joining Sab on a journey south to a ramshackle desert town called Hello City. Populated by drifters, old hippies, and washed-up techies—and existing outside the normal constructs of American society—Hello City offers Excel a chance to forge his own path for the first time. But after so many years of trying to be invisible, who does he want to become? And is it possible to put down roots in a country that has always considered you an outsider? Thrumming with energy and at once critical and hopeful, The Son of Good Fortune is a luminous story of a mother and son testing the strength of their bond to their country—and to each other.
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    No Less The Devil (eBook, ePUB)
    THE CHILLING AND COMPULSIVE NEW NOVEL FROM THE NO. 1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR. 'Stuart MacBride is an automatic must-read for me ... always fast, hard, authentic - and different' LEE CHILD 'We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.' It's been seventeen months since the Bloodsmith butchered his first victim and Operation Maypole is still no nearer to catching him. The media is whipping up a storm, the top brass are demanding results, but the investigation is sinking fast. Now isn't the time to get distracted with other cases, but Detective Sergeant Lucy McVeigh doesn't have much choice. When Benedict Strachan was just eleven, he hunted down and killed a homeless man. No one's ever figured out why Benedict did it, but now, after sixteen years, he's back on the streets again - battered, frightened, convinced a shadowy 'They' are out to get him, and begging Lucy for help. It sounds like paranoia, but what if he's right? What if he really is caught up in something bigger and darker than Lucy's ever dealt with before? What if the Bloodsmith isn't the only monster out there? And what's going to happen when Lucy goes after them? 'Wow. What a ride! Exceptional. A must read.' DEBORAH MASSON Praise for Stuart MacBride: 'A brutal, visceral read, laced with the blackest of humour and travelling to some very dark places' Guardian 'A magnetic mix of creepy places, dark humour, horror and violence' Sun __________ What readers are saying about No Less the Devil: 'The plot twist is divine... An absolutely magnificent feast of a crime thriller read!' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'A chilling read with twists and turns' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'A fascinating and superbly written mystery' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'MacBride is an absolute master of understated dark humour' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW.
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    No Less The Devil
    THE CHILLING AND COMPULSIVE NEW NOVEL FROM THE NO. 1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR. 'Stuart MacBride is an automatic must-read for me ... always fast, hard, authentic - and different' LEE CHILD 'We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.' It's been seventeen months since the Bloodsmith butchered his first victim and Operation Maypole is still no nearer to catching him. The media is whipping up a storm, the top brass are demanding results, but the investigation is sinking fast. Now isn't the time to get distracted with other cases, but Detective Sergeant Lucy McVeigh doesn't have much choice. When Benedict Strachan was just eleven, he hunted down and killed a homeless man. No one's ever figured out why Benedict did it, but now, after sixteen years, he's back on the streets again - battered, frightened, convinced a shadowy 'They' are out to get him, and begging Lucy for help. It sounds like paranoia, but what if he's right? What if he really is caught up in something bigger and darker than Lucy's ever dealt with before? What if the Bloodsmith isn't the only monster out there? And what's going to happen when Lucy goes after them? 'Wow. What a ride! Exceptional. A must read.' DEBORAH MASSON Praise for Stuart MacBride: 'A brutal, visceral read, laced with the blackest of humour and travelling to some very dark places' Guardian 'A magnetic mix of creepy places, dark humour, horror and violence' Sun __________ What readers are saying about No Less the Devil: 'The plot twist is divine... An absolutely magnificent feast of a crime thriller read!' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'A chilling read with twists and turns' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'A fascinating and superbly written mystery' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'MacBride is an absolute master of understated dark humour' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW.
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    Die Farbe Rot (eBook, ePUB)
    "Du schließt die Augen und schaust in die Sonne, und durch deine Lider hindurch siehst du die Farbe deines Blutes – ein Karminrot. Dies ist die Farbe deiner leiblichen Existenz. Grün ist die Farbe der äußeren Vegetation. Gelb ist die Farbe der Sonne. Blau ist der Himmel über dir." Mit diesen Sätzen beginnt Gerd Koenen seine epische Geschichte des Kommunismus, die von der alten in die moderne Welt und bis heute reicht. In seiner meisterhaften Darstellung holt er den Kommunismus aus dem Reich der reinen «Ideen» auf den Boden der wirklichen menschlichen Geschichte zurück. Er macht auf neue Weise plausibel, warum Marxismus, Sozialismus und Kommunismus eine naheliegende Antwort auf die vom modernen Kapitalismus erzeugten Umwälzungen waren – aber ebenso, wie und weshalb der «Kommunismus» als politisches System in Russland wie in China und anderswo in Terror und Paranoia endete. Gerd Koenen schildert in seinem großen Buch die Geschichte des Kommunismus als untrennbaren Teil der Entwicklung menschlicher Gesellschaften. Weit entfernt, nur eine exzentrische Idee des 19. Jahrhunderts zu sein, hat der Kommunismus tiefe Wurzeln in den religiösen Erzählungen, philosophischen Lehren, gelebten Sozialformen oder literarischen Utopien, gerade auch Europas. Marx war der erste, der im Moment des Durchbruchs eines industriellen Kapitalismus die darin schlummernden neuen Möglichkeiten einer gesellschaftlichen Höherentwicklung und zugleich einer maßlosen menschlichen Degradation zusammengedacht hat. Das im "Kommunistischen Manifest" formulierte Postulat einer "Assoziation, worin die freie Entwicklung eines Jeden die Bedingung der freien Entfaltung Aller" wäre, beschreibt bis heute gültig, wie weit wir von einer menschenwürdigen Gesellschaft entfernt sind. In der Katastrophe des Ersten Weltkriegs trennten sich die Wege eines emanzipativen, aber geschwächten westlichen Sozialismus und eines vom Führer der russischen Bolschewiki, Lenin, ideologisch und praktisch völlig neu formatierten, machtvoll agierenden "Kommunismus" des 20. Jahrhunderts. Gerd Koenen analysiert als Erzähler mit großem Atem die Stationen dieser gewaltigen Geschichte, in der Humanismus und Terror, Kunst und Propaganda, Aufbau und Abbruch, Sieg und Niederlage so nahe beieinander gelegen haben wie nirgends sonst. Und die Metamorphosen seit 1989, allen voran Chinas, stellen viele Fragen noch einmal ganz neu.
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    Die Farbe Rot
    "Du schließt die Augen und schaust in die Sonne, und durch deine Lider hindurch siehst du die Farbe deines Blutes - ein Karminrot. Dies ist die Farbe deiner leiblichen Existenz. Grün ist die Farbe der äußeren Vegetation. Gelb ist die Farbe der Sonne. Blau ist der Himmel über dir."Mit diesen Sätzen beginnt Gerd Koenen seine epische Geschichte des Kommunismus, die von der alten in die moderne Welt und bis heute reicht. In seiner meisterhaften Darstellung holt er den Kommunismus aus dem Reich der reinen «Ideen» auf den Boden der wirklichen menschlichen Geschichte zurück. Er macht auf neue Weise plausibel, warum Marxismus, Sozialismus und Kommunismus eine naheliegende Antwort auf die vom modernen Kapitalismus erzeugten Umwälzungen waren - aber ebenso, wie und weshalb der «Kommunismus» als politisches System in Russland wie in China und anderswo in Terror und Paranoia endete.Gerd Koenen schildert in seinem großen Buch die Geschichte des Kommunismus als untrennbaren Teil der Entwicklung menschlicher Gesellschaften. Weit entfernt, nur eine exzentrische Idee des 19. Jahrhunderts zu sein, hat der Kommunismus tiefe Wurzeln in den religiösen Erzählungen, philosophischen Lehren, gelebten Sozialformen oder literarischen Utopien, gerade auch Europas. Marx war der erste, der im Moment des Durchbruchs eines industriellen Kapitalismus die darin schlummernden neuen Möglichkeiten einer gesellschaftlichen Höherentwicklung und zugleich einer maßlosen menschlichen Degradation zusammengedacht hat. Das im "Kommunistischen Manifest" formulierte Postulat einer "Assoziation, worin die freie Entwicklung eines Jeden die Bedingung der freien Entfaltung Aller" wäre, beschreibt bis heute gültig, wie weit wir von einer menschenwürdigen Gesellschaft entfernt sind. In der Katastrophe des Ersten Weltkriegs trennten sich die Wege eines emanzipativen, aber geschwächten westlichen Sozialismus und eines vom Führer der russischen Bolschewiki, Lenin, ideologisch und praktisch völlig neu formatierten, machtvoll agierenden "Kommunismus" des 20. Jahrhunderts. Gerd Koenen analysiert als Erzähler mit großem Atem die Stationen dieser gewaltigen Geschichte, in der Humanismus und Terror, Kunst und Propaganda, Aufbau und Abbruch, Sieg und Niederlage so nahe beieinander gelegen haben wie nirgends sonst. Und die Metamorphosen seit 1989, allen voran Chinas, stellen viele Fragen noch einmal ganz neu.
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    The Ryan Chronicles Series: Books 1-6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 2163min
    1. Saving Grace When CJ Ryan's girlfriend decides life is less complicated without him, CJ travels a destructive path into despair, walking the line between what's right and what feels good. But what feels good is a dangerous slope to travel, especially when Lucifer wages war for his soul. One wrong step and CJ could fall into the devil's trap, becoming no better than the demons he battles. 2. Raven Heart CJ Ryan still can't remembered a thing about his past, but he is determined to have a future with Valerie. Despite his lack of memory, he finds himself ensnared in the cutthroat world of entertainment whether he wants it or not. The push into the spotlight shines a harsh glare on his family and brings with it a plague of horrors that drag him to the edge. 2. Trinity's Wrath CJ Ryan's life seems to have fallen into place, and while the backdrop of his Hawaiian honeymoon provides the perfect healing elixir, the guilt of sentencing his father to an eternity of torture at Lucifer's hands starts to intrude on his happily ever after. When he and Valerie return from Hawaii, a note from the king of hell greets him, outlining in sickening detail his plans for CJ and those he holds dearest. 4. Angel Blood Someone is murdering people, draining them dry, and the police suspect it may be a vampire. When the captain of the York police department turns to Tom Ryan and his paranormal investigation agency for help, Tom takes one look at the crime scene photos and knows the killer isn't a bloodsucker. 5. Angel Fire In the aftermath of his wife's death, Tom Ryan cannot breathe when his three-year-old daughter, Hannah, is out of his sight. His overprotectiveness falls into the realm of paranoia, born from the fear that Lucifer is not done with him yet. 6. Angel Fury Tom Ryan left York. He left everything he loves to safeguard the last angel descendants. Now ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matt Armstrong. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/052101/bk_acx0_052101_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Cry of Honor: The Sorcerer's Ring, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 563min
    In A Cry of Honor (book 4 in the Sorcerer's Ring), Thor has returned from The Hundred as a hardened warrior, and now he must learn what it means to battle for his homeland, to battle for life and death. The McClouds have raided deep into MacGil territory - deeper than ever before in the history of the Ring - and as Thor rides into an ambush, it will fall on his head to fend off the attack and save King's Court. Godfrey has been poisoned by his brother by a very rare and potent poison, and his fate lies in Gwendolyn's hands, as she does whatever she can to save her brother from death. Gareth has fallen deeper into a state of paranoia and discontent, hiring his own tribe of savages as a personal fighting force and giving them Silver Hall - ousting The Silver and causing a rift in King's Court that threatens to blow up into a civil war. He also schemes to have the fierce Nevaruns take Gwendolyn away, selling her off in marriage without her consent. Thor's friendships deepen, as they journey to new places, face unexpected monsters, and fight side by side in unimaginable battle. Thor journeys to his hometown, and, in an epic confrontation with his father, he learns a great secret of his past, of who he is, of who his mother is - and of his destiny. With the most advanced training he's ever received from Argon, he begins to tap powers he didn't know he had, becoming more powerful each day. As his relationship with Gwen deepens, he returns to King's Court in the hopes of proposing to her - but it may already be too late. Andronicus, armed with an informer, leads his million-man Empire army to once again attempt to breach the Canyon and crush the Ring. And just as things seem like they can't get any worse at King's Court, the story ends with a shocking twist. Will Godfrey survive? Will Gareth be ousted? Will King's Court split in two? Will the Empire invade? Will Gwendolyn end up with Thor? And will Thor finally learn the s ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Wayne Farrell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/020324/bk_acx0_020324_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Run: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 522min
    For fans of Harlan Coben’s Tell No One and Joseph Finder’s Paranoia - a high-octane thriller featuring a tech consultant who unwittingly steps into the rabbit hole of corporate cover-ups - and finds that his highly demanding job has suddenly become highly dangerous. From Andrew Grant, the critically acclaimed author hailed by Nelson DeMille as "a little bit of le Carré and Ian Fleming, but with more grit and a sharper edge," comes a thrilling novel of suspense that hits the ground running when an innocent man suddenly finds himself a moving target. Marc Bowman, a highly successful computer consultant and software designer, walks into his job at a major tech company one morning only to find himself fired on the spot, stonewalled by his boss, and ushered out of the building. Then things get worse: An explosive argument drives his wife away and a robbery threatens to yank a million-dollar idea - and his whole future - out from under him. In a matter of hours, Marc has gone from having it all to being sucker-punched by fate. But it’s only Monday, and before the week is over, he’ll be stalked, ambushed, wiretapped, arrested, duped, double- and triple-crossed - until he can’t tell enemies from allies. Suddenly, the only thing standing between him and the wrath of everyone from the FBI to Homeland Security to his desperate ex-bosses is a flash drive full of data that might just be the holy grail of high-tech secrets - and a holy terror in the wrong hands. Now, as the gloves come off and the guns come out, turning back is hopeless and giving up is madness. The only person left for Marc to trust is himself. And the only thing left to do is keep running - or end up a dead man walking.Praise for Run:“Readers who enjoy corporate espionage will enjoy [Run].” (Booklist)“Twists and surprises abound, the pace never slows, and the writing satisfies. So go ahead, read and enjoy this one.” (Kirkus Re ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jon Lindstrom. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003989/bk_rand_003989_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Enchanted Souls Series: 5 Book Bundle , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 641min
    Audiobook One: Moonlight Dove Camden is a wannabe journalist from New Jersey who is all work and has little room for romance.  Jackson Teal is a famous pop singer who just healed from a heartbreak and values his privacy as much as he abhors the paparazzi.   But when these two meet at the Moonlight Festival of Crested Valley, Colorado, neither one of them could stop thinking about the other. Thus begins a pull that neither of them has ever experienced nor can explain. In the midst of this enchanting pull, there are misunderstandings, fear, paranoia, and a necklace that keeps glowing.   Audiobook Two: Tour Dove and Jackson are madly in love and together they set out on tour together with different roles: Jackson as the famous pop singer who is back from hiatus, Dove as a journalist covering his tour and also his secret girlfriend with a mysterious necklace.   The tour presents many rigors that threaten their new relationship, from the paparazzi to a disapproving manager and a kidnapping. Will their love be able to survive all this?   Audiobook Three: The Secret of the Glow   Racked with guilt and fearful of causing Jackson any more pain, Dove decides to flee and take some time off to clear her head. Jackson respects her feelings and throws himself into his music. Even though they are far apart, the necklace still brings them together and places them in danger again as an even more sinister attempt to steal the necklace is put into place. Dove is finally clued in on the truth about the necklace from an unlikely source, while Jackson has to face the skeletons in his own closet. Is the secret behind the glowing necklace really true, and will it be enough to keep them together once and for all?  Audiobook Four: Return to Crested Valley Jackson and Dove are reunited again, but it isn’t at all like they had ever hoped or dreamed. Dove’s whole world is turned upside ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Shawna Crawley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/115833/bk_acx0_115833_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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