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2013., General, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Call No: Fic Del Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Game trilogy Volume: bk. 3Summary Note: HP is now living off the grid, convinced he is being hunted by both the police and the masterminds behind the Game. With no one to trust and the boundaries between reality and the virtual worlds dangerously blurred, he resolves to complete one final mission in order to expose the Game and uncover the truth behind it. Ousted from the police force, Rebecca is in crisis, self-medicating to cope with stress. When she finds a safe-deposit box that belonged to her father, she is shocked to find that it contains a gun and several passports.
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2013., General, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Call No: Fic Del Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Game trilogy Volume: bk. 2Summary Note: The Game has brought HP Pettersson wealth and freedom, but his newly comfortable life is a little - unsatisfying. He misses the danger, and the adrenalin rush. When he meets the rich and beautiful Anna Argos in a luxurious Dubai hotel, life instantly gets more interesting. But there is something mysterious lurking beneath Anna's cool surface - and there's something unsettling about her cellphone. Rebecca Normen is now heading up an elite bodyguard team and thinks she's put her personal demons behind her, but everything changes when she learns of a web forum containing threatening posts that obviously refer to her.
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2016., Adult, Crown Publishing Call No: Fic Cro Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "'Are you happy with your life?' Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before a man Jason<U+2019>s never met smiles down at him and says, 'Welcome back, my friend.' In this world he<U+2019>s woken up to, Jason<U+2019>s life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college physics professor, but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible. Is it this world or the other that<U+2019>s the dream? And even if the home he remembers is real, how can Jason possibly make it back to the family he loves? The answers lie in a journey more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could<U+2019>ve imagined--one that will force him to confront the darkest parts of himself even as he battles a terrifying, seemingly unbeatable foe. Dark Matter is a brilliantly plotted tale that is at once sweeping and intimate, mind-bendingly strange and profoundly human--a relentlessly surprising science-fiction thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we<U+2019>ll go to claim the lives we dream of."--From publisher.
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c2013., General, HarperCollins Publishers Limited Call No: Fic Del Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Game trilogy Volume: 1Summary Note: The first novel in the high-concept, high-tech Game Trilogy. Aimless young Henrik "HP" Petterson finds a cellphone on a Stockholm train that invites him to play a game: in no time, he's embarking on daring, high-stakes missions that turn his ordinary life extraordinary. HP loves the thrill, and the rewards, but is there a sinister side to the seemingly innocent contest?.
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c2015., Adult, Doubleday Call No: Fic Rei Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: On a remote, dusty road forty miles outside of Austin, Texas, FBI agent Joe Grant and a confidential informant are killed in a deadly shootout. Left to pick up the pieces is Mary Grant, Joe's young wife and mother of their two daughters. The official report places blame for the deaths on Joe's shoulders... but the story just doesn't add up and Mary has too many troubling questions that need answers. How did Joe's final voice mail--containing a cryptic warning for Mary, recorded moments before the fatal shooting--disappear without a trace from her phone? Stonewalled by the FBI, Mary will be drawn into a deadly conspiracy that puts her in the crosshairs of the richest and most powerful men in America... and the newest and most terrifying surveillance system known to man.
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2014., General, Spiderline/HarperCollins Canada Ltd. Call No: Fic Seh Edition: Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A suspenseful and highly original technothriller based on breathtaking developments in the field of thought-controlled systems and cyber warfare. Eric Söderqvist, professor of computer science at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, has invented Mind Surf: a thought-controlled system that allows people with disabilities to browse the web. Samir Mustaf is a former MIT professor whose daughter Mona was killed by an Israeli cluster bomb five years earlier. He has just developed the most sophisticated computer virus the world has ever seen, for the purpose of a cyber attack against Israel's financial system. Eric's wife Hanna falls into a coma - struck by an aggressive and previously unknown virus - after having tested her husband's invention. The doctors are at a loss. Although everyone around him thinks he's gone mad, Eric is convinced that his wife has been infected by a powerful computer virus known as Mona, and that the only way he can save her is by tracking down its creator.
