Political Thrillers Science Fiction

When you’ve betrayed your revolutionary cadre, an off-grid fight club on a remote tropical island is a good place to hide - or die. For notorious ex-hacker Emily Kim, the outcome of each fight makes little difference. Black-market blood sport is the perfect self-imposed penance. But when she stumbles on a plot to overthrow the corporate empire that provides the ubiquitous global feed, Emily discovers her old friends have been targeted. Warning them will force her out into the open, back on-grid, and directly into danger. Emily can’t escape the past. But can she seize the future?

Intelligence agencies in both the United States and France have uncovered information that Group 45 has reorganized under new leadership after its disastrous collaboration with the Broker. The most recent French elections have caused the president of France to include some far-right candidates in his Council of Ministers, and he has had to accede to several of their demands, one of which was the removal of Phillip Rostand as head of the DST.

For most of the world life had improved after the implementation of the Basic Human Standard and the formation of The Global Federation of Nations. However, after 15 years, there are some who still fight against the principles of the organization. Natalie Kelley is a journalist for the Chicago Tribune whose reporting focuses on American terrorist groups in opposition to the GFN.

Amelia has a lot to learn about being part of The Coalition, but the only way to learn is on the job. She finds herself taking part in rescue missions, sabotaging the Central Government, and smuggling people across the border out from under the oppressive rule of Central. But while she learns the ropes, Central has been learning about the Coalition, too. The group of rebels soon find their families targeted by the terrifying Commission of the People, leading to drastic changes within the Coalition.

Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic dystopian novel by English author George Orwell. Published in 1949, it is set in the eponymous year and focuses on a repressive, totalitarian regime. Read by gritty and accomplished actor Philip Glenister from the acclaimed crime series Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes.

January 1964. Political intrigue and infighting roils Washington in the wake of the assassination attempt in Dallas, and a wounded President John F. Kennedy returns to the White House to face a growing crisis in Vietnam that threatens America's Cold War strategy. The president doesn't trust the information he is getting from Saigon, where the military is engaged in a shadow operation. So he turns to the one man he does trust: Lt. Colonel Patrick O'Shea.

In a dying world, the Offset ceremony has been introduced to counteract and discourage procreation. It is a rule that is simultaneously accepted, celebrated, and abhorred. But in this world, survival demands sacrifice so for every birth, there must be a death. Professor Jac Boltanski is leading Project Salix, a ground-breaking new mission to save the world by replanting radioactive Greenland with genetically-modified willow trees. But things aren't working out and there are discrepancies in the data. Has someone intervened to sabotage her life's work?

Businessman Arnie Haugen is selected to be president of the United States by a military council.

After years of terrorist attacks, murders and kidnappings, citizens of the State vote to enact the Protector Program. A predictive policing system, it signals the dawn of the New Era. Passive iD chips are implanted in every citizen's wrist, providing convenience and protection. The chips enable users to unlock homes, start cars, transact in stores, and monitor their health. They also collect data.

Fifteen years following his imprisonment for committing a brutal revenge murder, former top DEA Agent Billy Russell is paroled five-years early to a world controlled by autocratic billionaires. Armed only with his wits, Billy returns to find a society fighting for its very survival, and soon finds himself embroiled in the wildest conspiracy he could have ever imagined.

When Iran finally develops nuclear weapons it triggers the Last World War, and it will forever change the surface of the Earth. A president impeached. A vice president murdered. A relatively unknown Speaker of the House... A mere congressman elevated to the most powerful office in the nation, if not the world. With all of the political chaos in the United States, one of the world's power hungry regimes decides to play a card it has held close to their chest. Iran unloads five nuclear weapons.

In naher Zukunft: auf Grund der Maßnahmen zu Pandemien und Klimawandel hat sich das Leben vollkommen verändert. Ein Generationenkampf entbrennt in einer Welt, in der die Klimakanzlerin mit CO2-Lebenskonten, unlösbaren smarten Armbändern und Kontaktbudgets unerbittlich regiert.

Late in the 21st century, the United Continental States of America is running smoothly. Unemployment has been eradicated, terrorism is no more, and any internal dissent diminishes by the day. Most give credit to President Meyers, and many can no longer remember the last election, but it is a small price to pay to keep the country safe from the terrorist group Hariq Jihad.

Europa lleva setenta años unida bajo la esvástica después de que Alemania triunfase en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Germania, la antigua Berlín, es la capital del Gran Reich, que se extiende a lo largo de casi todo el continente. Mientras tanto, Albert Laun, un hombre inocente que se encuentra en el lugar equivocado en el momento equivocado, será perseguido por la Gestapo sin saber que tiene en su poder la llave que puede cambiar el destino del mundo.

Thirty years after its great triumph in Vietnam, the US has again become mired in an endless foreign war overseas. Stories of super soldiers known as the Volunteers tuck in little American boys and girls every night. Yet domestic politics are aflame. Violent protests erupt throughout the nation; an ex-military watchdog group clashes with police while radical terrorists threaten to expose government experiments within the veteran rehabilitation colonies. Halfway between war and peace, the Volunteers find themselves waiting for orders in the vast American city-state, Empire City.

Governments around the world continue to dominate their citizens. Only Silver City stands as a beacon for freedom. But for how long? Jacob Roth fills his late brother’s shoes as the CEO of Roth Holdings, North America. His first goal is to eliminate Silver City, the only place on Earth free of taxes and central banker cryptocurrencies. But the Silver City militia won’t go down without a fight. As the pressure mounts, Jacob’s marriage is fraying at the seams. With newfound wealth and power and a separation from his wife, Jacob has an unusual affair.

Another young, African-American man is shot and killed by local law enforcement. As rioters take to the streets in outrage, a group that has waited for this very moment moves and takes control, effectively shutting down an entire city. The demand is simple: "Give us what we have been promised for over a century...EQUALITY."

Now, Russia is waging a nuclear war with the United States, and only one thing bears on Will's mind: get his family to safety. Escaping the fallout, they travel to Frenchtown, Wyoming, but land in the middle of conspiracy and a guerrilla war on the US soil. With the world on the brink of nuclear apocalypse, can Will protect his family and lead them to safety?

Once, it looked like humanity was capable of global peace. It wasn’t. Now the world is a wasteland, and a divided humanity stands on the brink of another war after a king’s brutal execution. Caught in the middle of a political uprising, former Chief of Security Ziavir Yiros flees the palace with a secret that would unravel an empire. With a vindictive assassin on his trail, Ziavir races against time and a country turning against him to protect the one woman who carries the key to humanity’s survival. Can Ziavir defeat his greatest rival and insure the last hope for humanity? Or will ...

Europa, 1949: Die neu gegründete DDR umfasst nach einem unglaublichen Coup das gesamte deutsche Staatsgebiet, mit Ausnahme des westlichen Teils von Berlin. Gegenwart: Die DDR ist führende europäische Macht - ein hochmoderner Überwachungsstaat mit einem glücklichen Volk. So scheint es. Während internationale Agentenorganisationen im autonomen West-Berlin ihre Pläne schmieden, wird die DDR von einem furchtbaren Vorfall erschüttert: Über den Platz der Akademie zieht eine Giftgaswolke und fordert zahlreiche Tote. Ein Unfall? Ein Anschlag?