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Tokyo, ferne Gegenwart: Zwischen Wirklichkeit und virtueller Realitat. Datendiebstahl ist an der Tagesordnung: Einem genialen greisen Wissenschaftler ist es gelungen, bei einer Gruppe professioneller Datenfalscher eine Gehirnwasche durchzufuhren. Er entnimmt ihnen Informationen, die er in Gehirne von unwissenden Versuchspersonen einspeist. Der 35-jahrige Held und Ich-Erzahler ist der Einzige, der die Prozedur uberlebt. Fortan versucht er, die dunklen Machenschaften des Professors mit allen Mitteln zu durchkreuzen…

The tragic and mysterious circumstances surrounding the deaths of Elizabeth Short, or the Black Dahlia, and Marilyn Monroe ripped open Hollywood&rsquo;s glitzy fa&ccedil;ade, exposing the city&#39;s ugly underbelly of corruption, crime, and murder. These two spectacular dead bodies, one found dumped and posed in a vacant lot in January 1947, the other found dead in her home in August 1962, bookend this new history of Hollywood. Short and Monroe are just two of the many left for dead after the collapse of the studio system, Hollywood&rsquo;s awkward adolescence when the company town&rsquo;s many competing subcultures&mdash;celebrities, moguls, mobsters, gossip mongers, industry wannabes, and desperate transients&mdash;came into frequent contact and conflict. <I>Hard-Boiled Hollywood</I> focuses on the lives lost at the crossroads between a dreamed-of Los Angeles and the real thing after the Second World War, where reality was anything but glamorous.&quot;

Cowabunga, schweetheart! A book in the manner of Surfing Samurai Robots! In a Los Angeles that is something like ours–but in which magic has become an integral part of society–P.I. Turner Cronyn doesn't know why he's being threatened by a supernatural being. Does it have anything to do with the fact that zombies looking like him are turning up all over town? And who killed Misty Morning, the beautiful mage he was supposed to be protecting? But on the bright side, a beautiful woman named Astraea Scales seems determined to help with his investigations. There's just one little problem: is she really a Greek goddess related to the Three Fates–or does she just look like one? This is just one of the life-and-death questions that Cronyn must answer to avoid being made a zombie himself. Great fantasy and mystery adventure–the first in a series.

The Hardboiled Mystery MEGAPACK™ presents 4 classic crime novels from the era when hardboiled detectives ruled the American newsstands. Included are:<P> The Hollow Man, by John Roeburt (1954)<BR> Model for Murder, by Stephen Marlowe (1955)<BR> Blonde Bait, by Ed Lacy (1959)<BR> Beauty Can Kill, by Michael McCretton (1962)<P> If you enjoy this book, search your favorite ebook store for «Wildside Press Megapack» to see the 200+ other entries in the series, covering mysteries, science fiction, modern authors, westerns, classics, adventure stories, and much, much more!