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WORM is the gripping story of the 'Conficker' virus - which has infected millions of computers around the world - and the cyber-security elites who have joined forces in a high-tech game of cops and robbers to find its creators and defeat them. This dramatic cybercrime story travels from the Ukraine to the United States and everywhere inbetween to explore the next frontier in terrorism. It is the story of a battle of wits over the future of th...

WORM is the gripping story of the 'Conficker' virus - which, since its introduction in November 2008, has infected millions of computers around the world - and the cyber security elites who have joined forces in a high-tech game of cops and robbers to find its creators and defeat them. This dramatic cybercrime story travels the world to explore the next frontier in terrorism. It is the story of a dazzling battle of wits over the future of the ...

Foreign policy in peacetime and command decision in war have always been driven by intelligence, and yet this subject has often been overlooked in standard histories. 'Honorable Treachery' fills in these details, dramatically recounting every important intelligence operation since the birth of the United States.

Soraya was a schoolgirl in the coastal town of Sirte, when she was given the honour of presenting a bouquet of flowers to Colonel Gaddafi, "the Guide, " on a visit he was making the following week. This one meeting - a presentation of flowers, a pat on the head from Gaddafi - changed Soraya's life forever. Soon afterwards, she was summoned to Bab al-Azizia, Gaddafi's palatial compound near Tripoli, where she joined a number of young women who ...

Traditionally thought of as the last great unspoiled territory on Earth, the Arctic is in reality home to some of the most contaminated people and animals on the planet. Awarded a major grant to conduct an exhaustive study of the deteriorating environment of the Arctic by the Pew Charitable Trusts (the first time Pew has given such a grant to a journalist), "Los Angeles Times"environmental reporter Marla Cone traveled across the Arctic, from G...

Ivan Klima, 'a writer of enormous power and originality' (The New York Times Book Review), has penned an intimate autobiography that explores his life under Nazi and Communist regimes.

Trade paperback. True stories from the wild world of international finance, by the man behind the infamous (at)GSElevator Twitter account, which offered hilarious tweets about Goldman Sachs for three years before an internal investigation was launched.

A new historical thriller from the author of the Inspector Troy series, this moves from London during the Blitz to divided post-war Britain. Meticulously researched, it's a moving tale of espionage and war.

The incredible story of Iridium - the most complex satellite system ever built, the cell phone of the future and one of the largest corporate bankruptcies in American history - and one man's desperate race to save it

WINNER OF THE FLAHERTY-DUNNAN FIRST NOVEL PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE 2014 CHAUTAUQUA PRIZEOne of Time Magazine's "21 Female Authors You Should Be Reading"Named a Best Book of 2013 by the Wall Street JournalA New York Times Editors' ChoiceAn O Magazine Top Ten PickIn early 1800s Tennessee, two men find themselves locked in an intimate power struggle. Richardson, a troubled Revolutionary War veteran, has spent his life fighting not only for his count...

Andrus Kivir¿ is one of Estonia's most highly regarded contemporary writers. A journalist by profession, he is known for his satirical newspaper columns and his bestselling novels. A popular board game has been created on the basis of The Man Who Spoke Snakish. He lives in Tallinn, Estonia. Christopher Moseley is a translator of Estonian and Latvian. He teaches at University College London and is Treasurer of the Foundation for Endangered Lang...

Asa Akira (28) has already had an extremely unusual life. Educated at the United Nations International School in Manhattan, she soon was earning a good living by stripping and working as a dominatrix at a sex dungeon. Akira has now built up a reputation for being of the most popular, hardworking, and extreme actors in the business, winning dozens of awards for her 330+ movies, including her #1 bestselling series "Asa Akira Is Insatiable”. In ...

From New York Times bestselling author Alice LaPlante comes a mesmerizing novel of destruction and renewal as a headstrong young woman joins a doomsday cult only to find salvation on an unexpected journey. LaPlante's acclaimed psychological thrillers are distinguished by their stunning synthesis of family drama and engrossing suspense, and Coming of Age at the End of Days delves even deeper into the creases of domestic life.As an earnest young...

From the critically acclaimed author of White Man's Problems, a muscular debut novel set in hardscrabble Philadelphia about an orphan named Joe and the basketball team that raised him-a team that also has the power to be his undoing

In this incomparable novel of the seething revolutionary Russia of 1905, Andrey Bely plays ingeniously on the great themes of Russian history and literature as he tells the mesmerizing tale of Apollon Apollonovich Ableukhov, a high-ranking Tsarist official, and his dilettante son, Nikolai, an aspiring terrorist, whose first assignment is to assassinate his father.

Though Coover's message is bleak, his delivery is wonderfully comic" (Bharati Mukherjee, "The Globe & Mail" (Toronto)) in this spare, tantalizing, and perfect book, named by Daphne Merkin in "The New Yorker" as one of her "favorite" S/M books.