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Joseph R. Garber

    14 août 1943 – 27 mai 2005

    Joseph R. Garber était un auteur américain connu pour ses explorations perspicaces du monde de l'entreprise et des complexités de la nature humaine. Ses romans explorent des thèmes tels que l'ambition, les dilemmes éthiques et l'impact de la technologie sur la société. L'écriture de Garber se caractérise par une narration captivante et des observations pointues qui plongent les lecteurs dans des histoires psychologiquement riches. Son œuvre offre un mélange unique de suspense et de commentaire réfléchi sur la vie moderne.

    Joseph R. Garber
    Im Auge des Wolfes
    Terč : [thriller]
    Solstice
    Vertical Run
    In A Perfect State
    Rascal Money
    • Rascal Money

      • 352pages
      • 13 heures de lecture
      4,0(1)Évaluer

      When American Interdyne Worldwide Inc. and its bumbling president, Brian Shawby, announce a planned corporate takeover of the nation's second largest computer company, PegaSys Inc., CEO Scott C. Thatcher believes the attempt will be a laughable failure. But there are other forces at work -- most importantly a Japanese businessman still bitter over WW II and eager to gain a foothold in the American computer industry -- and PegaSys is soon in real danger of being lost. Heading up the defense team are corporate hot shots Mike Ash and Louise Bowman, who are also secretly in lust and perhaps even in love, struggling to hide their affair from the straitlaced Thatcher as they try to save his company. Adding to PegaSys' troubles is a mysterious computer hacker known only as Wintergreen, who seems able to penetrate any security system

      Rascal Money
    • In A Perfect State

      • 384pages
      • 14 heures de lecture
      4,0(2)Évaluer

      Red-eyed and jet-lagged, an American businessman arrives in Singapore from Manhattan, unaware that he has been marked for assassination. Twice. A world away in New York he was Jack Taft, Vice President, Logistics LBTech, Inc: a small cog in a mighty wheel of the international electronics and armaments industry. A decent company man, an ordinary man, and no hero. Now, in the Big Brother Utopia of Singapore he's suddenly become a fugitive pursued by police whose orders read 'shoot to kill'. A firestorm of bullets sets him on the run. A dozen hitmen confront him in the street. A relentlessly lethal policeman stalks him through the swamps. Death is inches away unless he learns to fight back...

      In A Perfect State
    • Vertical Run

      • 305pages
      • 11 heures de lecture
      3,9(20)Évaluer

      You think YOU had a killer workday. . . Get ready for the FASTEST thriller of the summer Each morning in his 45th floor executive office, David Elliot savors the quiet moments until the workday begins. Until today, when his boss walks in and aims a gun at him. For the rest of the day, he will be trapped in his midtown office building, and everyone David Elliot meets will try to kill him. He has 24 hours to find out why. . . In "Vertical Run," you can escape into a world on fast forward, a drama that plays out with electrifying intensity. No one who reads this book will ever see the office the same way again. "Vertical Run" is available now -- run for it A Book-of-the-Month Club featured selection Soon to be a major motion picture from Warner Brothers and Peters Entertainment Company "From the Paperback edition."

      Vertical Run
    • Solstice

      • 488pages
      • 18 heures de lecture

      As the millennium approaches, the climate on Earth is getting progressively hotter, a phenomenon which makes scientists and others extremely nervous. Unease quickly turns to panic when Air Force One is successfully downed, key communications networks are disrupted, and the world's financial institutions are pushed to the brink of collapse. CIA science chief Helen Wagner and Michael Lieberman, a brilliant designer of a giant space-based solar array, must contend with techno-savvy activists who plan to use the array to cut modern society off at the knees...and start civilization over from scratch.

      Solstice
    • Terč : [thriller]

      • 261pages
      • 10 heures de lecture
      4,5(9)Évaluer

      Hrdinou románu je veterán války ve Vietnamu, který je jednoho dne vystaven záhadnému útoku, jehož příčinu pochopí až v samém závěru akce

      Terč : [thriller]
    • Kaum in Singapur angekommen, wo er die asiatische Niederlassung eines US-Konzerns kontrollieren soll, entdeckt Jack Taft, dass der Chef des örtlichen Verbrecher-Syndikats genauso hinter ihm her ist wie der Polizeiboss des kleinen Landes. - Thriller.

      Im Auge des Wolfes
    • Dave Elliot genießt jeden Morgen die Stille seiner Chefsuite, bis er an einem Tag das Gefühl hat, bedroht zu werden. In nur 24 Stunden muss er herausfinden, warum, während er einen verzweifelten Kampf gegen einen überlegenen Gegner führt.

      Der Schacht. Roman
    • Vogelvrij

      • 308pages
      • 11 heures de lecture

      Langzaam aan wordt het een jongeman duidelijk dat zijn vrienden, zijn baas en zelfs zijn vrouw hem dood willen hebben.

      Vogelvrij