Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution

“A white-knuckle adventure . . . This near-future was crafted by experts, and it shows.”—Daniel H. Wilson, New York Times best-selling author of Robopocalypse\n“Fantastic, compelling, and authoritative.” —General David Petraeus (US Army, Ret.)\nAn FBI agent hunts a new kind of terrorist through a Washington, DC, of the future in this ground-breaking book—at once a gripping technothriller and a fact-based tour of tomorrow.\nAmerica is on the brink of a revolution, one both technological and political. After narrowly stopping a bombing at Washington’s Union Station, FBI Special Agent Lara Keegan receives a new assignment: to field-test an advanced police robot. As a series of shocking catastrophes unfolds, the two find themselves investigating a conspiracy whose mastermind is using cutting-edge tech to rip the nation apart. With every tech, trend, and scene drawn from real-world research, Burn-In blends a techno-thriller’s excitement with nonfiction’s insight to illuminate the darkest corners of the world soon to come.

Literature & Fiction

Singer, P.W.

Cole, August

Genre Fiction

William Morrow Paperbacks

What will the next global conflict look like? Find out in this ripping, near-futuristic thriller. The United States, China, and Russia eye each other across a twenty-first century version of the Cold War, which suddenly heats up at sea, on land, in the air, in outer space, and in cyberspace. The fighting involves everything from stealthy robotic–drone strikes to old warships from the navy’s “ghost fleet.” Fighter pilots unleash a Pearl Harbor–style attack; American veterans become low-tech insurgents; teenage hackers battle in digital playgrounds; Silicon Valley billionaires mobilize for cyber-war; and a serial killer carries out her own vendetta. Ultimately, victory will depend on blending the lessons of the past with the weapons of the future. Ghost Fleet is a page-turning speculative thriller in the spirit of The Hunt for Red October. The debut novel by two leading experts on the cutting edge of national security, it is unique in that every trend and technology featured in the novel — no matter how sci-fi it may seem — is real, or could be soon.

Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War

United States

Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

An FBI agent teams up with the first police robot to hunt a shadowy terrorist in this gripping technothriller—and fact-based tour of tomorrow—from the authors of Ghost Fleet America is on the brink of a revolution. AI and robotics have realized science fiction’s dreams, but have also taken millions of jobs and left many citizens fearful that the future is leaving them behind. After narrowly averting a bombing at Washington’s Union Station, FBI Special Agent Lara Keegan receives a new assignment: to field test the first police robot. In the wake of a series of shocking catastrophes, the two find themselves investigating a conspiracy whose mastermind is using cutting-edge tech to rip the nation apart. To stop this new breed of terrorist, Keegan’s only hope is to forge a new kind of partnership. With every tech, trend, and scene drawn from the real world, Burn-In blends a technothriller’s excitement with nonfiction’s insight to illuminate the darkest corners of our chilling tomorrow.

Mariner Books

The year is 2026. China has taken over as the world's largest economy, while the United States, mired in an oil shortage, struggles to adjust to its diminished role. Then, a surprise attack throws the U.S. into a chaos unseen since Pearl Harbor. As the enemy takes control, the survival of the nation will depend upon the most unlikely forces: the Navy's antiquated Ghost Fleet and a cadre of homegrown terrorists. Ghost Fleet is unique in that every piece of technology featured in the novel already exists or is in the works. Peter W. Singer is Senior Fellow and Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution and a consultant for the US Department of Defense and FBI. August Cole is a journalist and writer specializing in national security issues and is an Adjunct Fellow at the American Security Project.

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La Flotte Fantôme: Le troisième conflit mondial est déjà là !

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"È più probabile che i cinesi dichiarino guerra ai russi che a noi americani. E se solo li sfiorasse l'idea di immischiarsi nei fatti nostri, non hanno l'esperienza necessaria per farlo" afferma in modo arrogante un generale americano all'inizio di questo romanzo epico. Parole fatali. Pronunciandole, lo stratega dimostra di conoscere poco l'antico monito di Sun Tzu: "Puoi combattere una lunga guerra o rendere forte la tua nazione. Ma non puoi fare entrambe le cose". Gli americani infatti, nell'avventura visionaria di Ghost Fleet, non sanno più quale sia il loro posto nella storia. Oggi è il Direttorato a dettare le leggi del nuovo mondo, una forza che in Cina accomuna capitalismo e nazionalismo. I magnati dell'economia e i soldati lavorano fianco a fianco, una potente tecnocrazia che decide di osare e che dichiara la Terza guerra mondiale. Contro gli americani, che non avevano mai smesso di coltivare l'incubo di essere attaccati, di farsi trovare impreparati, di subire una nuova Pearl Harbor. Soltanto la Ghost Fleet, la flotta fantasma di 500 vecchie navi della Marina americana, potrebbe forse opporsi a un mondo - come lo disegna Marco Ventura in una recensione contemporanea all'uscita del romanzo in America - trasformato dalla tecnologia dei droni, dai satelliti, dalle guerre stellari, dalle nuove armi hi-tech, dalle armi chimiche, dai farmaci militari, dai virus e dai computer che voracemente tentano di smantellare la superpotenza degli Stati Uniti. Ghost Fleet denuda una verità che è già qui, non occorre attendere 10 anni. Basato su studi e documenti che gli autori, due veri esperti di armamenti e geo-politica, hanno raccolto per anni, il romanzo descrive un mondo sull'orlo del baratro, il nostro. "La regola alla base della storia è stata rigorosa, spiega Singer: ogni singola tecnologia militare, ogni elemento del libro doveva venire dal mondo reale." Ghost Fleet racconta attraverso la verosimiglianza una tragedia che forse ci circonda, e mette in luce, come raramente i techno-thriller riescono a fare, le vulnerabilità di un sistema che oggi non riusciamo neppure a immaginare. Solo fiction?

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