The Dome of the Rock, situated on the Temple Mount, a site sacred to three of the world's great religions and claimed by both Israel and Palestine, has suddenly become the subject of growing Internet chatter among terrorist groups being monitored by HaMossad, Israel's elite intelligence agency. Lev Novikov, a second generation agent with decades of experience, now finds himself facing a fresh challenge that threatens to rewrite history and turn the conflict in the Middle East inside out. With the help of technology journalist Karl Lustig, Lev and his team must quickly figure out the nature of the threat and neutralize it before catastrophe on an unprecedented scale strikes Jerusalem, the City of Peace. The Dome is a fast-paced drama that explores the nature of extremism and raises questions about where politics and religion are leading the world. REVIEW BY ALAN CARUBA, VETERAN BOOK CRITIC ON BOOKVIEWS "Lior Samson is nowhere near as famous as John Le Carré, but he has written a suspenseful and timely novel,...fast-paced,...filled with the way computers, programming, and other technical black magic combine to pose a major threat and are used as well to spot and neutralize it. ...This novel takes you behind the scenes of modern spycraft and terrorism. One gets a sense of what life is like in Israel these days as a cast of characters, some family, some linked by a fallen hero, some master spies, must neutralize a terrifying deadly scheme. I cannot say enough good things about this novel and recommend that you check it out and purchase it."

The Dome

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Samson, Lior

Thrillers & Suspense

Gesher Press

"The First Law of Cyber-Terrorism: Anything that can be turned on under program control can be turned off; anything that can be controlled remotely can be thrown out of control remotely." Destiny Allen doesn't even like on-line games. A Web designer for computer security giant Scenaria Systems, she finds herself involved in a deadly puzzle that blurs the boundaries between the virtual and the real. At stake: the infrastructure of modern America. Her resources: Dina Gustafson, a college friend, and Karl Lustig, an Israeli technology journalist with friends in dark places. The challenge: sort the good guys from the bad before the lights go out. Intricately plotted at a breathless pace, this technology thriller from novelist Lior Samson (author of Bashert and The Dome) is about real risks and virtual worlds, about Internet threats as close as tomorrow's nightly news, and about the ever-escalating warfare between black-hat hackers and modern society.Also available in the four-volume Kindle set The Homeland Connection (ISBN 978-0-9885275-1-5).

Web Games

Here in one volume of provocative science fiction is the collected short fiction of Lior Samson, including eight published short stories-all out-of-print, difficult to find, and mostly published under various pseudonyms-and sixteen previously unpublished works. The stories are linked by more than common authorship. They are investigations of the intersection of people and the technology people create and use. With humor and tragic perspective they examine human experience in a world of created conditions. Many are unabashedly romantic, even when they are cynical. They celebrate human beings and being human. They laud learning and the endless cycle of discovery. And they caution. Even as they elevate technology, they warn against na ve acceptance of what too easily and too often passes for progress.

Requisite Variety: Collected Short Fiction by Lior Samson

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Ampersand Press

Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. Steve Jobs, Stanford, 2005Rosen David, a research biologist who does no research, is about to find out what the late Steve Jobs meant. Working in biotech and looking for novel patterns in the work of others, he makes a dramatic new discovery with profound implications for medicine and society. When his work starts disappearing and his life is threatened, his settled existence becomes complicated and dangerous. His actions entangle him in the invisible network of an elderly, jet-setting doctor with unusual patients, including a pair of sybaritic California billionaires and the brutal and long-lived African dictator, Edgar Jabari Mbutsu. Rosen ends up playing in a high stakes game with powerful players who leave him wondering how long he will live. The rules are unclear, the cards he holds are of uncertain value, and he may be called upon to bet everything.This provocative thriller from critically acclaimed novelis

The Rosen Singularity

What could be dangerous about the idyllic, picturesque island of Madeira? Madeira, a Portuguese island in the Atlantic, would seem to be a perfect destination for technology journalist Karl Lustig and his wife, Shira Markham. But, Karl, on his way to lecture at the University of Madeira, is carrying military microchips for his colleagues at the Madeira Intelligent Robotics Institute. Karl’s talent for trouble leads him into uncovering a puzzle in the chipset he is delivering, one he designed with Israel Tactical Systems for advanced avionics applications. His digital detective work will put him in danger and demand decisive action from Shira. Chipset—a Homeland Connection thriller that also stands on its own—is a fast-paced chronicle of a vacation that becomes a history lesson about homeward journeys and personal discoveries. The adventure will challenge Karl and Shira’s notions of commitment to country and principles and will change the direction of their lives

Chipset (The Homeland Connection)

a teacher with a past, a teenager with a project, a complicated collaboration, a dangerous distraction ... Mathematics teacher Bradley Williams is an easily distracted lover of puzzles who is about to fall off the map. A clouded and complicated past has propelled him into exile in Western Massachusetts. There he teaches classes under contract at nearby colleges, and the highlight of his monkish life in small-town purgatory is the weekly gathering of local intellectuals who shred semantics and philosophy ove

The Four-Color Puzzle: Falling Off the Map

Mystery

A flash of blue-white light prompts Kat Gaudet, a safety engineer with Spanergy Holdings, to pull over and check out a section of thirty-inch natural gas transmission pipeline crossing Sadler Creek Canyon. At the same time, in Spanergy’s Charleston, West Virginia, control center, control technician Len Bergen is reading a programming manual while keeping one eye on an array of monitor screens and waiting for his supervisor to return. Over the next few minutes, an unexpected threat of unknown origin will change the course of their lives and put the entire East Coast in danger.  A work of fiction, GASLINE is about real threats and recognized vulnerabilities in our critical energy infrastructure. It is an explosive story of action, intrigue, and friendship that will take you from the hills of Appalachia into a clandestine world of confusing loyalties and global conflict. Kat and Len pursue coded clues and flee pursuers as they try to sort out the good guys from the bad—and survive.

Gasline

From the Jewish ghetto of tiny Frauenkirchen in nineteenth-century Austria-Hungary to a tight-knit Catholic community in the American Midwest at the turn of the twentieth century, Distant Sons explores connections and separation, theme and variation in the lives of two generations. It is the dramatic story of Miriam and Magdalena, a mother and daughter from different worlds in different times, and the choices they face: questions of love, commitment, fulfillment, and survival. Their decisions about faith and family, love and loss, search and surrender will not only map out the courses of their own lives, but also shape their legacy in generations to come down to the present day.Distant Sons is a tale of love across boundaries and in defiance of culture and convention. Based on real events and inspired by real people, Distant Sons is a testimony to the strength of the human spirit and the resilience of ordinary people.

Distant Sons

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Coleman Todd Drucker is a self-centered, self-made billionaire who lives on the edge: a life of leveraged buyouts and bold business bets, of customized sports cars, sybaritic weekends, and sex on the side. As any smart player would, Drucker hedges his bets, in his case with a very special insurance policy. Drucker's drive is more than matched by the intelligence and ambition of the women in his life, including his beautiful second wife, Barbra Ann Wilson, and the quirky journalist, Dana Carmody, who starts out to learn more about his insurance policy but soon finds herself in deep and dangerous waters. THE DRUCKER PROXY is a fast-paced and intelligent thriller, enriched by complex characters and spot-on social insights raising incisive questions about our times and the near future.

The Drucker Proxy

From a master storyteller, a provocative new collection of short fiction is about all manner of endings - the end of relationships and of careers, the loss of faith and the arrival of ultimate fates, the end of innocence and the end of the world. In the best traditions of speculative fiction, here are stories that skate around the thin edges of reality and ask questions about the extent to which our beliefs shape our experience of the world.

Death Rehearsals: Stories of Endings Dark and Bright

Short Stories & Anthologies

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