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Suivez les aventures du légendaire agent Sam Fisher, dans ce thriller basé sur l'univers du jeu vidéo culte Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell ! L'agent vétéran de l'Échelon 4, Sam Fisher, se voit confier une nouvelle mission : recruter et entraîner la prochaine génération de Splinter Cell (la division d'action secrète de la NSA), dont sa propre fille Sarah. Mais lorsqu'un assassin connu de Fisher revient d'entre les morts et qu'une dangereuse technologie de cyberguerre est mise aux enchères, père et fille se lancent dans une course contre la montre pour neutraliser la menace. Ils devront alors faire usage de leurs uniques talents pour empêcher que l'arme ne tombe entre de mauvaises mains, et ce, quoi qu'il en coûte. Un roman officiel Ubisoft, inscrit dans l'univers captivant du célèbre jeu vidéo d'espionnage Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell.

It is the year 1878, and in the heart of America's untamed new frontier lurks a dark force as ancient as time, buried deep inside the earth, awaiting its return to power. Evil men are exploiting the riches of the West in order to bring that awakening about, using strange machinery and fantastic devices to further their ends. Only two men, warriors from two different cultures can stand together to defeat them and save the world from the terror of the Faceless. Gunslinger Gabriel Tyler and Indian shaman Jonathan Fivehawk have tracked the evil rail baron Robur Drache, to Winterville, high in the snow-covered mountains of the north. In his service to the Faceless, Drache has a legion of immigrant workers constructing a railroad which seems to have no start and no destination... While Tyler wonders after Drache's plan, Fivehawk is distracted by his own concerns; somewhere nearby is Eyes-Like-Amber, his sister, abducted by Drache's outriders for reasons unknown. Meanwhile, a young Chinese girl named Yu Lim is also investigating Drache's intents, with a duty of her own to follow.

The Starship Titan continues on her outward voyage of discovery. Ranging farther and farther from Federation space, Captain William Riker and the crew look forward to living Starfleet's mission: seeking out new life, discovering new civilizations. Striking a "sandbank" -- a spatial distortion -- the Titan is knocked out of warp, her crew shaken up but uninjured. Titan has stumbled across a battlefield, and floating in it, shattered and in pieces, are the remains of a ship. Searching for survivors, they discover the ship never had a crew. The away team removes the computer core, looking for answers. Once the device is restored, it becomes clear this is not just a computer, but a thinking, reasoning artificial intelligence. It identifies itself as SecondGen White-Blue, and it comes from a civilization composed entirely of sentient computers. Eons ago these artificial intelligences were charged to be the first line of defense against The Null -- a destructive force so all-consuming that generation upon generation have waged unending war trying to find a way to beat back this terror. Captain Riker offers to assist them, but years of war have left the AIs distrustful and suspicious, especially of organics. The tide of the battle is turning, and The Null is winning. Set free, it will destroy everything in this system and then, unchecked, spread its mindless destruction into the heart of the Federation.

Cybernétisé après un accident qui a failli lui coûter la vie, Adam Jensen lutte pour rester humain en dépit de la mécanisation de son corps. Après la fin explosive de ses aventures dans Human Revolution, l'incident Aug et la destruction de Panchaea, Adam doit assumer les conséquences de ses actes et survivre dans une société où le schisme entre augmentés et normaux n'a jamais été aussi net, les factions aussi violemment opposées.

It's the American West of the 1800's, and in the heart of America's untamed new frontier lurks an evil force, the Faceless, awaiting its return to power.Only two men, warriors from two different cultures, can stand together to defeat the evil.Gabriel Tyler, a reckless gunslinger, and a Native-American shaman, Jonathan Fivehawk, meet when Gabriel, injured during a gun battle, stumbles into Jonathan's camp one night.Initially suspicious of each other, Fivehawk dresses Gabriel's wounds with his medicines and they realise they are both headed in the same direction:Stonetree, once a thriving frontier town, now a ghost town

Silicic (i.e. dacitic-rhyolitic) magmatic systems have the potential to generate large, explosive caldera-forming eruptions which have global effects and consequences. How, and over what timescale, magma accumulates and is stored in the upper crust are key aspects in understanding such systems and their associated hazards. The absence of such eruptions in the historical record, however, has forced understanding of these systems to be developed through numerical models or the study of the deposits in the geological record. Numerical models primarily focus on the long-term generation but instantaneous eruption of single magma (i.e. melt-dominant) bodies. In contrast, the stratigraphic and geochemical nature of eruption deposits often show features more consistent with complex magmatic systems comprising multiple melt-dominant bodies that may have formed rapidly but erupted episodically. Further studies of past eruption deposits are valuable, therefore, in reconstructing silicic magmatic systems and highlighting the nature of melt-dominant body generation and storage. To this end, this thesis examines the 2.08 Ma, ~2,500 km3 Huckleberry Ridge Tuff (HRT), Yellowstone Plateau volcanic field (YPVF), U.S.A, the deposit of the first and largest of three caldera-forming eruptions in the YPVF. The HRT comprises an initial fall deposit followed by three ignimbrite members (A, B and C) with a second fall deposit between members B and C. Despite emanating from an archetypal silicic volcanic field, minimal previous work has been undertaken on the geochemical nature of the HRT but it is thought to conform to traditional, unitary magma body ideas. A revised stratigraphic framework, detailing an episodic and prolonged initial fall deposit, identification of a weeks-months time gap between members A and B, and a similar but longer years-decades hiatus in activity between members B and C provides the context for this geochemical investigation. A large sample suite representative of the diverse range of physical characteristics of clasts and material found in the HRT was analysed. In situ micro-analysis of matrix glass (major and trace elements) and crystals (major elements) in the initial fall deposit are coupled with major and trace element, and isotopic compositions of single silicic clasts (i.e. pumice/fiamme) from all three ignimbrite members, supplemented by in situ analysis of their crystals and groundmass glass. These data are used to reconstruct the silicic magmatic system. Furthermore, major and trace element, and isotopic compositions of rare mafic i(.e. basaltic to andesitic) material found in members A and B provide an insight into the thermal and chemical drivers of HRT silicic volcanism. This macro- and micro analytical investigation using multiple techniques reveals remarkable complexity within the large-scale HRT magmatic complex. Four geochemically distinct magmatic systems are differentiated on single clast elemental and isotopic characteristics that are further reflected in crystal and glass compositions. Two of these systems (1 and 2) were active in the initial fall deposit and member A. Magmatic system 1 is volumetrically dominant in the HRT and is characterised by moderate-high Ba single clast (450-3540 ppm) and glass (100-3360 ppm) compositions, in contrast to the distinctly low-Ba (?250 ppm single clast,

In their ongoing quest for new allies, Atlantis's flagship team travel to Halcyon, a grim industrial world where the Wraith are no longer feared -- they are hunted. Horrified by the brutality of Halcyon's warlike people, Lieutenant Colonel John Sheppard soon becomes caught in the political machinations of Halcyon's aristocracy.

The crews of Jean-Luc Picard, Benjamin Sisko, Ezri Dax, and William Riker unite to prevent a cosmic-level apocalypse-only to find that some fates really are inevitable.

Další část ze série dramatických špionážních thrillerů, v nichž je hlavní role svěřena britskému agentovi Marcu Daneovi. Britský tajný agent Marc Dane, hrdina špionážních thrillerů Nomád a Exil, se tentokrát pustí do své nejděsivější akce. Strašlivá hrozba z hlubin temné sítě digitálního zločinu. Zničující zrada v jádru skrytě operující úderné síly. Smrtelně nebezpečná honba na hackerském bojišti. Nemilosrdná teroristka dychtící po pomstě. Zničující útoky po celé planetě. Marc Dane musí nasadit veškeré své schopnosti a vynalézavost, aby vypátral záhadnou postavu - ženu známou jako Madrigal, jejíž tvář nikdo nezná. Dříve než uvrhne svět do války. Nakladatelská anotace. Kráceno.

Uma hora atrás, o agente federal Jack Bauer foi declarado foragido. Se ele quiser sobreviver, ele precisa sair do país, e ele não tem muito tempo pra isso. Com seus ex-colegas da Counter Terrorist Unit agora mortos, presos ou demitidos, Jack não tem recursos de que se socorrer, não tem cobertura, não tem lugar algum para ir, apenas sua determinação poderá levá-lo por diante. Uma coisa permanece clara para ele: a promessa que havia feito a sua filha Kim. Jack promete rá voltar para ver Kim uma última vez para dizer que a ama... antes de cair fora do radar para sempre. Enquanto isso, uma força-tarefa do FBI apressadamente montada partiu para rastrear e capturar Jack, até mesmo uma unidade de operações secretas da SVR da Rússia propôs-se a fazer o mesmo – só que a missão dos russos é matá-lo logo ali, quando o encontrarem. Enquanto as horas passam, Jack precisa enfrentar velhos amigos e inimigos do passado em uma corrida desesperada para ficar um passo à f rente de seus caçadores, deixando-os com uma sinistra advertência: “Fiquem fora de meu caminho, e eu vou embora em 24 horas. Vocês jamais irão me ver de novo. Me persigam... e vocês irão se arrepender.”

Als MI6-agent Marc Dane als enige een mislukte actie van zijn eenheid overleeft, wordt hij als verdachte aangehouden, maar weet hij te ontsnappen waarna hij op zoek gaat naar de verrader.