The Phoenix Files, Underground


Book Description

This electrifying, six-volume, alternating-narrator serial catapults the reader into a creepy, locked-down desert town, built by an all-powerful corporation whose plans threaten the future of the rest of the world.Luke thought he knew who his enemies were. The Shackleton Co-operative. Calvin, the head of security. The whole town of Phoenix. But then deep underground, Luke will uncover a secret that changes everything. There are 49 days until the end of the world.




Arrival


Book Description

Luke is having a rough year. When his parents split up, his mum drags him to Phoenix, a brand-new town in the middle of nowhere. But Phoenix is no ordinary town. There are no cars, no phones and no internet. Then he discovers that someone is plotting to wipe out the human race. Phoenix is suddenly the safest and most dangerous place on earth. And the clock is already ticking.




Underground


Book Description

The clock is still ticking... Luke thought he knew who his enemies were. But then he wakes up strapped to a metal chair in an underground lab. There are more enemies - and they've been waiting his whole life to track him down. Meanwhile, up on the surface, the people of Phoenix are beginning to disappear. But the worst is still to come. Deep under Phoenix, Luke will uncover a secret that changes everything. There are now just 49 days until the end of the world.




Phoenix Files #1: Arrival


Book Description

Book 1 in the bestselling Phoenix Files series. Luke is having a rough year. When his parents split up, his mum drags him to Phoenix, a brand-new town in the middle of nowhere. But Phoenix is no ordinary town. There are no cars, no phones and no internet. Luke thinks this is as weird as it gets. Then he discovers that someone is plotting to wipe out the human race. Phoenix is suddenly the safest and most dangerous place on earth. And the clock is ticking. There are one hundred days until the end of the world.




Doomsday


Book Description

There are no more days left. After 99 days of lockdown, the end of the human race is right on schedule. One way or another, it's all coming to an end. The clock is still ticking. There are seventeen hours until the end of the world.




Underground


Book Description

Suelette Dreyfus and her co-author, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, tell the extraordinary true story of the computer underground, and the bizarre lives and crimes of an elite ring of international hackers who took on the establishment. Spanning three continents and a decade of high level infiltration, they created chaos amongst some of the world's biggest and most powerful organisations, including NASA and the US military. Brilliant and obsessed, many of them found themselves addicted to hacking and phreaking. Some descended into drugs and madness, others ended up in jail. As riveting as the finest detective novel and meticulously researched, Underground follows the hackers through their crimes, their betrayals, the hunt, raids and investigations. It is a gripping tale of the digital underground.




Phoenix Files #2: Contact


Book Description

Book 2 in the bestselling Phoenix Files series. Peter's life seemed pretty normal. Until he discovered that everyone outside the town of Phoenix was going to die. The all-powerful Shackleton Co-operative will do whatever it takes to keep him and his friends quiet. And the clock is still ticking. There are 88 days until the end of the world.




Phoenix Files #4: Underground


Book Description

Book 4 in the bestselling Phoenix Files series. The end is coming - and Luke is running out of hiding places. He and his friends are trapped, paralysed and lost to the outside world. And the only escape is at the hands of Calvin and his men. Meanwhile, the people of Phoenix are growing suspicious, and the Co-operative may have to take extreme measures to maintain their control. But the worst is yet to come. Deep under Phoenix, Luke is about to uncover a secret that will change everything. And the clock is still ticking. There are 49 days until the end of the world.




The Phoenix and the Carpet


Book Description

Five British children discover in their new carpet an egg, which hatches into a phoenix that takes them on a series of fantastic adventures around the world.




The Atrocity Archives


Book Description

The first novel in Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross's witty Laundry Files series. Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. His world was dull and safe - but then he went and got Noticed. Now, Bob is up to his neck in spycraft, parallel universes, dimension-hopping terrorists, monstrous elder gods and the end of the world. Only one thing is certain: it will take more than a full system reboot to sort this mess out . . .