The thug ran his hand down the warm curve of her thigh, and it wasn’t until an impossibly strong hand gripped his arm that he realized the girl, was no girl at all. Still, if not for bad timing he might have left the room alive… Things aren’t always as they seem. The girl in the box is unbelievably beautiful and while Ivan Petrovic knows she’s a Synthetic, he experiences cognitive dissonance trying to reconcile her appearance and what she actually is. That turns out to be a real problem when his cruel boss, Molenski, now the proud owner of the most advanced human form robot on the planet, leaves them alone together. The more Ivan gets to know Inga, the less machine-like she seems. There are so many questions. Just who did Molenski have the stunning robot modelled upon and what did he plan to do with her? Surely, she wasn’t just to be a sexbot? Ivan has to know, but fears the answers will be terrifying. Within hours of his boss’ special delivery things get very ugly, very fast and Ivan will be caught right in the middle of the murder and mayhem. Don’t miss this adrenaline fueled, haunting near future thriller from the author who gave us the bestselling post-apocalyptic series, AMERICA FALLS

Sir Jack Pitman, un magnate de aquellos que sólo la vieja Albión puede producir, mezcla de Murdoch, Maxwell y Al Fayed, emprende la construcción de la que será su obra magna. Convencido de que en la actualidad Inglaterra no es más que una cáscara vacía de sí misma, apta sólo para turistas, él creará una «Inglaterra, Inglaterra» mucho más concentrada, que de manera más eficaz contenga todos los lugares, todos los mitos, todas las esencias e incluso todos los tópicos de lo inglés, y que por consiguiente será mucho más rentable. En el mismo día se podrán visitar la torre de Londres, los acantilados de Dover, los bosques de Sherwood (con Robin Hood incluido en la gira) y los megalitos de Stonehenge. y para construir su Gran Simulacro, el parque temático por excelencia para anglófilos de todo el mundo, Sir Jack elige la isla de Wight y contrata aun selecto equipo de historiadores, semiólogos y brillantes ejecutivos. El proyecto es monstruoso, arriesgado y, como todo lo que hace Sir Jack, tiene un éxito fulgurante. Mediante hábiles maniobras políticas, consigue que la isla de Wight se independice de la vieja Inglaterra, e incluso miembros de la casa real se trasladan al nuevo país para ejercer de monarquía de parque temático. Pero en un giro inesperado, el país de mentirijillas se vuelve tanto o más verdadero que el país de verdad, las ambiciones imperiales se desatan y los actores que representaban a personajes míticos, a filósofos, a gobernantes, y cuya función era «parecer», comienzan a «ser»…

Rosa Lane is 35, at Dante's centre point of life, when the individual is meant to garner experience and become wise. So far she has managed well enough without wisdom; she has been obedient to prevailing mores, she has worked hard at her decent job in London and has never troubled the stream. Yet she is suddenly disoriented by events, unable to understand the death of her mother, finding the former buttresses of her life — her long-term relationship, her steady job — no longer support her. When she leaves her job, and her relationship ends, she is thrust out into a great loneliness; she becomes acutely aware of — tormented by — the details of the city, the lives of those around her, and the deluge of competing cries. Having stripped herself of her former context, and become inexplicable to her friends and family, she embarks on a mock-epic quest for a sense of purpose, for an answer to the hoary old question 'Why Live?' Her comical grail quest is fraught with minor trials — encounters with former friends, unsympathetic landladies, prospective employers, theory-mongers, and denizens of the 'real world'. Rosa also falls into a state of constant motion, nervously treading around London. Yet her constant circumnavigations of the city fail to enlighten her, and she escapes from the city to join friends in Cumbria. This escape finally precipitates the climax of the book, the greatest trial, and the beginnings of her return to normality, whatever that was