"Michael and his friends, Sarah and Bryson, are still being chased by a cyber-terrorist. And now the government is after them, too"--

Michael is a gamer. And like most gamers, he almost spends more time on the VirtNet than in the actual world. The VirtNet offers total mind and body immersion, and it's addictive. Thanks to technology, anyone with enough money can experience fantasy worlds, risk their life without the chance of death, or just hang around with Virt-friends. And the more hacking skills you have, the more fun. Why bother following the rules when most of them are dumb,...

Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill are in Turkmenistan with the Taskforce -- a top-secret antiterrorist unit operating outside U.S. law -- when Jennifer gets a call from her brother, Jack. While investigating Mexican drug cartels, Jack has become caught between two rival groups. The desperate call to his sister is his last before he's kidnapped. In their efforts to rescue Jack, Pike and Jennifer uncover a plot much more insidious than illegal drug trafficking...

Graham Huber has been director of the CIA for less than a week when a Swiss kid in a dirty T-shirt walks into the American consulate in Hamburg and says the agency has been hacked, and he has a list of agents' names to prove it. This is the moment a CIA director most dreads. Huber isn't sure where to turn until he meets a charismatic (and unstable) young man named James Morris who runs the Internet Operations Center. He's the CIA's in-house geek....

Former chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service Adrian Weston is awoken in the middle of the night by a phone call from the Prime Minister. Her news is shocking: the Pentagon, the NSA, and the CIA have been hacked simultaneously, their seemingly impenetrable firewalls breached by an unknown enemy known only as "The Fox." Even more surprisingly, the culprit is revealed to be a young British teenager, Luke Jennings. He has no agenda, no secrets,...

The brutal murder of an undercover agent reveals a plot to foment a full-fledged war between Russia and Ukraine. Former U.S. Ambassador to the Ukraine Douglas Flannery meets with an old friend and former spy to help thwart a Russian plan to overrun her native Ukraine; but the group she's working for is planning a much more dangerous scheme in order to draw in NATO forces--and possibly ignite World War III. After the spy is killed following their meeting,...