Morgan Jones, Chris
Summary: An unlikely hero dives into the chaotic madness of Russia and Georgia's deadly covert conflict, in this rapid-fire tale of corporate espionage gone awry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MORWilliamson, Michael Z.
Summary: The Prescots were just Welsh coal miners - until they found the technology needed to exploit the subsurface ores of entire planets. They are the richest people in the universe, having more money that most planetary governments and effectively unlimited resources, but the only thing that may be bigger than their wealth is their number of enemies. Ripple Creek Security provides them with highly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILSummary: "Brought to life by director Daniel Junge, this is a tale of brilliant innovations, colossal failures and ego-driven rivalries akin to Steve Jobs versus Bill Gates. It is a 50-year-long, multi-generation epic featuring corporate coups, industrial espionage, secret burial grounds and the promise of unimaginable riches just one cartridge away. The only constant through the saga is this: just when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GAMGladysz, Margean.
Summary: An adventuresome eighteen-year-old college grad with fresh eyes hires on with the Greyhound Bus line in 1946 and becomes a company spy. The match is perfect as Margean Worst leaves the farm for a life on the road, inspecting bus drivers on the routes, first in the Great Lakes region and then all over the country. Margean poses as a passenger and notes drivers' honesty, road conditions and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arbutus Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GLADYSZ, MARGEAN GLASummary: Dom Cobb is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobb's rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI INCSummary: Keanu Reeves is a space-age courier who's plugged in, turned on, and buffed up to deliver the most important data of the 21st century, wet-wired directly into his brain! A rapid-fire roller coaster of action and high-impact imagery!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Morgan Jones, Chris
Summary: Hired to expose the criminal networks of a Russian bureaucrat who has amassed an illicit fortune, London investigator Benjamin Webster uncovers evidence that his target may also be responsible for the murder of a colleague.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORRustmann, F. W.
Summary: "Every major government on earth recognizes the value of intelligence and employs an intelligence service to collect it. Businesses should be no different. Knowing how to gather information about the strength of your competitors, being able to anticipate their next move, and preventing them from stealing your secrets are critical keys to success in the new economy. Executives, entrepreneurs,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brassey's 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.47 RUSSummary: Fired from his telecom job, Adam Cassidy is forced by company CEO Nicolas Wyatt to infiltrate Wyatt's longtime rival's company to steal trade secrets. Soon, Adam realizes that he's caught between two ruthless players who will stop at nothing to win. But, desperate to win over an Ivy League beauty and help his blue-collar father, Adam risks everything in a dangerous race against time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PARBeaton, M. C.
Summary: "When private detective Agatha Raisin comes across a severed leg in a roadside hedge, it looks like she is about to become involved in a particularly gruesome murder. Looks, however, can be deceiving, as Agatha discovers when she is employed to investigate a case of industrial espionage at a factory where nothing is quite what it seems. The factory mystery soon turns to murder and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M BEAGrace, Tom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAWang, Kathy
Summary: "In 2006 Julia Lerner is living in Moscow, a recent university graduate in computer science, when she's recruited by Russia's largest intelligence agency. By 2018 she's in Silicon Valley as COO of Tangerine, one of America's most famous technology companies. In between her executive management (make offers to promising startups, crush them and copy their features if they refuse); self promotion...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WANCastle, Jayne
Summary: If there's something Ravenna Chastain knows, it's when to end things. After almost becoming the victim of a cult that believes she's a witch, Ravenna leaves her old life to become a matchmaker. After failing to find a match for Ethan Sweetwater, she agrees to be his date for a business function, where things heat up and their relationship becomes more complicated.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CASRobinson, Kim Stanley.
Summary: Environmental aide Charlie Quibler is frustrated in his attempts to prove to the government that global warming has reached cataclysmic levels, a situation that is complicated when a promising technology is exploited for private interests.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SF Robinson 2004Hvistendahl, Mara
Summary: "A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is convicted of trying to steal U.S. trade secrets, by a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction. In September 2011, sheriff's deputies in Iowa encountered three neatlydressed Asian men at a cornfield that had been leased by Monsanto to grow corn from patented hybrids. What began as a routine inquiry into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.16 HVITanner, Adam.
Summary: Looks at how Caesar's Entertainment in Las Vegas collects personal data and uses it to cater to their clients' every need, inspiring companies of all kinds to do likewise in order to grow their businesses and stay relevant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338 TANMaroney, Tyler
Summary: "A fascinating examination of the world of private investigators by a 21st-century private eye. Today's world is complicated: companies are becoming more powerful than nations, the lines between public and corporate institutions grow murkier, and the internet is shredding our privacy. To combat these onslaughts, people everywhere -- rich and not so rich, in business and in their personal lives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 MARStevens, Taylor.
Summary: Dealing information to wealthy clients throughout the world, Vanessa Munroe hopes to leave her unconventional past behind her until a mission to find the missing daughter of a Texas oil billionaire forces her to return to the central Africa region of her youth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEStevens, Taylor.
Summary: Vanessa Munroe deals in information - expensive information - for corporations, heads of state, and anyone else who can pay. Born to missionary parents in lawless central Africa, Vanessa became the protâegâe of an infamous gunrunner at fourteen, and earned the respect of dangerous men. After a decade of building a new life in Dallas, she's never looked back. Until now. Pulled into the mystery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STEIansiti, Marco
Summary: In industry after industry, data, analytics, and AI-driven processes are transforming the nature of work. While we often still treat AI as the domain of a specific skill, business function, or sector, we have entered a new era in which AI is challenging the very concept of the firm. AI-centric organizations exhibit a new operating architecture, redefining how they create, capture, share, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: Brilliant coder and possessor of a Pi tattoo, Asha is poised to revolutionize artificial intelligence when she is reunited with her high school crush, Cyrus Jones.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: FIC ANAGibson, William
Summary: ""One of the most visionary, original, and quietly influential writers currently working" (The Boston Globe) returns with a sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Peripheral. Verity Jane, gifted app-whisperer, has been out of work since her exit from a brief but problematic relationship with a Silicon Valley billionaire. Then she signs the wordy NDA of a dodgy San Francisco start-up,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIBClapper, James R. (James Robert)
Summary: In "Facts and Fears" Clapper considers such controversial questions as, Is intelligence ethical? Is it moral to intercept communications or to photograph closed societies from orbit? What are the limits of what we should be allowed to do? What protections should we give to the private citizens of the world, not to mention our fellow Americans? Are there times when intelligence officers can lose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018