Brad Smith

Carol Ann Browne

From Microsoft's president and one of the tech industry's wisest thinkers comes a frank and thoughtful reckoning with how to balance enormous promise and existential risk as the digitization of everything accelerates.

The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age

Tools and Weapons

Dijital Cagin Vaatleri ve Tehlikeleri

Araclar ve Silahlar

Brad Smith, a “funny, poignant, evocative” (Dennis Lehane) crime novelist, debuts a new series set in upstate New York featuring jack-of-all trades, Virgil Cain, who must clear his name of two murders while on the run from the law in this spirited country noir. Mickey Dupree is one of the most successful criminal attorneys in upstate New York, having never lost a capital murder case. That is the upside of being Mickey. The downside: Mickey has a lot of enemies and one of them drives the shaft of a golf club through his heart, leaving him dead in a sand trap at his exclusive country club. The cops, led by a dim-witted detective named Joe Brady, focus their attentions on Virgil Cain. Just two weeks earlier Virgil told a crowded bar that “somebody ought to blow Mickey’s head off,” after the slippery lawyer earned an acquittal for Alan Comstock, the man accused of murdering Virgil’s wife. Comstock, a legendary record producer, gun nut, and certifiable lunatic, has returned to his estate, where he lives with his wife, the long suffering Jane. It appears to Virgil that the fix is in when Brady immediately throws him into jail with no questions asked. In order to set things right, Virgil escapes from jail, determined to find Mickey’s killer himself. Aside from a smart and sexy detective named Claire Marchand, everybody is convinced that Virgil is the culprit. When Alan Comstock is discovered with six slugs in his body the day after Virgil’s escape, his guilt is almost assured. Now it is up to Virgil to convince everyone of his innocence—by finding the killer before he winds up as the next victim.

A Novel

Red Means Run

Kathy Reichs

Nick Cutter

Andrew Pyper

Jennifer Hillier

Robert Pobi

David Rotenberg

Robert Rotenberg

Don Gutteridge

Deryn Collier

Sean Slater

Welcome to The Dark Side, a collection of excerpts from some of Simon & Schuster Canada’s most terrifying, mysterious, and suspenseful novels. From Nick Cutter’s old-school thriller, The Troop, to Kathy Reichs’ internationally bestselling Bones series, these stories will leave you trembling. The Dark Side ebook includes excerpts from: Bones of the Lost by Kathy Reichs The Demonologist by Andrew Pyper Shoot the Dog by Brad Smith Eye of the Storm by Rob Pobi The Troop by Nick Cutter Open Secret by Deryn Collier A Murder of Crows by David Rotenberg The Guilty by Sean Slater Death of a Patriot by Don Gutteridge Stranglehold by Robert Rotenberg Freak by Jennifer Hillier

A Collection of Mysteries & Thrillers

The Dark Side

From a writer who “rivals Elmore Leonard at his best” (Publishers Weekly) comes the third novel in the Virgil Cain series—a riveting story that opens with the discovery of the body of a movie star near the Hudson River. In upstate New York, Virgil Cain's draft horses are pulling hay in the fields when two film scouts offer him $500 a day for their use in a film. He pockets the money, but the chaotic set of Frontier Woman turns out to be more trouble than it’s worth. Producer Sam Jonson clearly has her heart in the wrong place with her husband-cum-director Robb, who costs her a major financier, not to mention the Native American casino owner Ronnie Red Hawk, who has a vested interest in an alternate leading lady. After one—and then a second—young woman is found dead, Virgil discovers that more is at stake than the interests of a casino magnate…and he’d better step in before the charming ten-year-old actress Georgia ends up the next victim of this deadly production. “Smith has a marvelous control of his material, effortlessly mixing laugh-out-loud comedy with streaks of country noir” (Booklist), and he is “a writer to watch, a comet on the horizon” (Dennis Lehane).

Shoot the Dog

From a writer who “rivals Elmore Leonard at his best” (Publishers Weekly) comes the third novel in the Virgil Cain series—a riveting story that opens with the discovery of the body of a movie star near the Hudson River. From the author of CROW’S LANDING and RED MEANS RUN comes the third novel in the Virgil Cain series—a riveting mystery revolving around the discovery of a moviestar’s body near the Hudson River. In upstate New York, Virgil Cain is drawing hay behind his team of massive Percherons when two movie scouts show up and offer $500 a day to use the horses in a film to be shot in the area. Virgil, in need of cash, reluctantly pockets the money, but he soon finds the chaotic set of Frontier Woman to be more trouble than it’s worth. Savvy producer Sam Sawchuk is in over her head; when she’s not propping up her talent-challenged husband-cum-director, she’s trying to keep tabs on a new inves­tor, the Native American casino owner Ronnie Red Hawk, a rambling egomaniac with designs on an infamous starlet. When the film’s leading lady turns up dead, Virgil discovers that more is at stake than the carnal interests of a casino magnate and the production of a major motion picture. And although he’d rather leave the whole bunch to stew in their own juices, he realizes he needs to step in before a charming ten-year-old actress named Georgia becomes the next victim.

Laura Kay

Stacy Palen

George Blumenthal

Students learn astronomy by doing astronomy.

Understanding Our Universe

In upstate New York, Virgil Cain is drawing hay when two movie scouts appear from nowhere and offer him $500 a day to use his horses in their film. In need of cash, Virgil reluctantly pockets the money, but the chaotic movie set soon proves more trouble than it's worth. With a talent-challenged director vying for authority with a lecherous investor and casino owner called Ronnie Red Hawk, the atmosphere is tense. But when the film's leading lady turns up dead, Virgil realises that far more is at stake than the making of a blockbuster movie. While his natural inclination is to leave the whole bunch to stew in their own juices, he suspects that charming ten-year-old actress Georgia is next, and he just can't let that happen, even if it does throw him into a world of danger.

Shoot The Dog

The New York Times bestseller, now updated with new material on cyber attacks, digital sovereignty, and tech in a pandemic. From Microsoft's president and one of the tech industry's broadest thinkers, a frank and thoughtful reckoning with how to balance enormous promise and existential risk as the digitization of everything accelerates. “A colorful and insightful insiders’ view of how technology is both empowering and threatening us. From privacy to cyberattacks, this timely book is a useful guide for how to navigate the digital future.” —Walter Isaacson Microsoft president Brad Smith operates by a simple core belief: When your technology changes the world, you bear a responsibility to help address the world you have helped create. In Tools and Weapons, Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne bring us a captivating narrative from the top of Microsoft, as the company flies in the face of a tech sector long obsessed with disruption as an end in itself, and in doing so navigates some of the thorniest issues of our time—from privacy to cyberwar to the challenges for democracy, far and near. As the tumultuous events of 2020 brought technology and Big Tech even further into the lives of almost all Americans, Smith and Browne updated the book throughout to reflect a changed world. With three new chapters on cybersecurity, technology and nation-states, and tech in the pandemic, Tools and Weapons is an invaluable resource from the cockpit of one of the world’s largest tech companies.

A dangerous man in a time of war .1972: Michael Winter is a ruthless killer and assassin. He is also part of a covert CIA operation known only as "Gladio." Its goal - conduct guerrilla warfare against a Soviet occupation of Western Europe. Trained from boyhood by a former SS officer, he is the deadliest agent of the Hannover cell.But something goes terribly wrong. Michael is shaken by a crisis of conscience and quits after being ordered to commit terrorist acts against his fellow West Germans. He leaves Gladio to start a quiet life of his own. 1985: The Soviets invade West Germany. Caught in the West German countryside during the opening salvos of the conflict, Michael and his family are trapped west of Hannover. Their lives are transformed in an instant. To ensure their survival, Michael must make gut-wrenching decisions. There's only one man he can turn to when all hell breaks loose - his mentor, a fanatic who will stop at nothing to avenge old grudges.Michael is forced to confront his past and return to the life of a killer to help his wife and two children survive World War III. Can he do what he must to save his family?

World War III: 1985

Operation Gladio

For roguish cynic Virgil Cain, a day of fishing on the Hudson River yields much more than he bargained for. Pulling up anchor, he drags in a mysterious steel cylinder - news which soon spreads around the local marina. When a crooked city cop then seizes both the cylinder and the boat, Virgil is left in a quandary. Deciding to pursue his boat, Virgil becomes embroiled with captivating single mother, Dusty, who knows far too much about the cocaine hidden inside the cylinder, and an old drug deal gone sour. Faced with a dealer who desperately needs his cylinder back, a murderous sidekick, and a wild card crazy Russian cowboy, Virgil and Dusty find themselves trapped in the middle and desperate for a way out.

Crow's Landing

David Heath

The forces of the Warsaw Pact storm west over the Inner German Border and unleash devastation on the first days of the conflict. Among the NATO defenders of West Germany are Captain Kurt Mohr and his company of Leopard tanks. Outgunned and outnumbered, the men must conduct vital delaying operations until reinforcements can arrive.

Storm and Steel Second Wave

Die Digitalisierung ist einer der definierenden Trends unserer Zeit. Informationstechnologien entwickeln sich dabei zugleich zu mächtigen Werkzeugen, bergen aber auch ernstzunehmende Risiken. Neben vielen positiven Errungenschaften konfrontiert sie unsere Gesellschaften jedoch auch mit existenziellen Bedrohungen wie der Gefahr durch Cybercrime, Eingriffe in die Privatsphäre und Angriffe auf demokratische Prozesse. Brad Smith, Präsident von Microsoft, und Carol Ann Browne, Senior Director of External Relations and Communications bei Microsoft, beides Insider aus der Schaltzentrale eines der weltweit führenden IT-Konzerne, plädieren an alle Unternehmen, Organisationen und Regierungen, jetzt zu handeln und die Weichen so zu stellen, dass Künstliche Intelligenz und andere Technologien nicht zu Missbrauch, sondern in eine gute Zukunft für uns alle führen.

Versprechen, Gefahren und neue Verantwortung im digitalen Zeitalter

Tools and Weapons – Digitalisierung am Scheideweg

**WESTERN WRITERS OF AMERICA 2019 SPUR AWARDS WINNER!** "[A] first-rate novel."—True West magazine "Smith has written tight, fast-paced novels his entire career…and reading one is like riding a thoroughbred."--The Chronicle Herald In the style of Cormac McCarthy, a gritty tale of justice and revenge in the Wild West. The year is 1910. Nate Cooper is an old-school cowboy. He sees the change brought by the turn of the century—horses giving way to motorcars, his girlfriend marrying his best friend, and his nemesis running for governor—and reckons none of it to be good. The west is being tamed, and with progress, some things are lost. But people? They tend to stay the same. Even after spending nearly thirty years in a Montana prison for a wrongful murder conviction, Nate's moral compass is true and unwavering: he does all the wrong things for all the right reasons. So when he returns to his Northern Montana ranching town to find the Blackfoot Indians—the people he went to prison trying to defend—are still being cheated out of their territory by ranchers, Nate can’t rest on his laurels. With grit, determination, a quick trigger finger, and the help of the woman he used to love, Nate sets out to settle the score and force some justice in into the changing world. Before long, though, he’ll discover that justice doesn’t come cheap.

The Return of Kid Cooper

Just released from prison for attacking the man who assaulted his sister, Ray Dokes heads back to his hometown in Canada, where he quickly lands in trouble again. 20,000 first printing.

All Hat

Multi-millionaire Everett Eastman bequeaths facets of his empire to his three offspring. And matters become complicated when the trio learn that there are conditions attached to their respective inheritances.

Big Man Coming Down the Road

A man leaves behind his life and family and travels from New York to Pennsylvania to claim the house he inherited from a relative he never know and finds his life much more exciting after finding a treasure trove of Civil War memorabilia.

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