Böcker av Dan Ackerman

In the dying days of the USSR, battlelines have shifted from spycraft to the cut-throat capitalism and it's intellectual property, not state secrets, that are to be bought, sold, stolen and fought over

Raising the baby antichrist isn't easy for adoptive parents Hiram and Phaedrus. A cult kills Felix's mother for creating a child with Lucifer and Felix is sent into hiding. Hiram, bound to the devil and aging slowly, and Phaedrus, a fallen angel, do the best they can in guiding Felix into young adulthood. Felix is good-natured but isolated. His few encounters with his father Lucifer leave him unsettled.An angel is hunting Felix, too. Sent by Heaven to kill the antichrist, he has been searching for 26 years. Felix, tired of spending his life in hiding, casts a spell to capture and kill the angel. Only he can't work up the nerve to kill. Felix and the angel strike an unruly truce as the cult returns. The peaceful upbringing Felix had is ending. His three parents hope they've given Felix the tools to confront Heaven and Hell as he comes into his own.

Lucifer is dead. There's a new Queen of Hell.Ira stays safe by aligning himself with the high society that supports the queen, through his friends Georg and Astrid. The farce gets harder every day.As Lucifer slowly returns to life, he finds himself chained and captive and in the dark. But something's not right - his wounds aren't healing, there are things he can't remember, and he's starving, in more ways than one.Ira receives an unexpected advantage--he is put legally in charge of Lucifer's affairs. Will that be enough to save his prince and himself?

Angels shouldn't pal around with demons, especially not ones they've been sent to assassinate. They shouldn't work with them or cook them dinner, or strike a deal with the Devil for them either. Sunshine probably isn't a very good angel.The demon in question is Felix Specter. He's forgiven Sunshine for stabbing him all those years ago. He's got a lot on his plate: a curse, his mental health, and a questionable love life. Finding out Sunshine owes the Devil a few favors doesn't help. Neither did that kiss, not that Felix will talk about it anyway.On top of everything else, Sunshine and Specter have a case to solve. They handle issues that human detectives can't, like monsters in the sewer, mages doing illegal charms, and runaway witches. But they've always dealt with anything the city has to offer. What could be different this time?

Arden inherited Eden, a space station floating over a dying planet. He also inherited an oppressive class system, worker shortages, and an entitled ruling class that refuses to make concessions. Rhys, a worker who's earned Arden's trust, helps him make unpopular changes to keep Eden alive.Arden's reputation as a shallow and formula-addled leader leaves his friends and foes skeptical of his leadership. Rhys gains power and is met with resistance from the ruling class. But without intervention, Eden's labor shortages may lead to the end of the station, and Terra One, within Arden's lifetime.

Wesley "West" Archer made a deal with the Devil for a failed high school crush. Now he answers questions for demons--a seedy job his family can never know about. Kit is the seediest, sexiest demon who has ever come to West for help.

Ira never anticipated having a life of his own, let alone having the most powerful creature in Hell as his lover. On top of learning how to live, cook, and work on his own, Ira has to navigate the political landscape that comes with being the Devil's kept man.Exes, estranged family members, political rivals, discontented workers, and those who'd compete for Satan's affections all worm their way into Ira's life and between him and his Prince. When things become chaotic and turmoil erupts in Hell, Ira has to decide if he should take action to help his Prince or step aside as nothing more than a pretty face. But can he help or will his inexperience get in the way?

Junius Thompson, fallen angel and fertility demon, thought that getting James Kelly to admit his feelings for him would be the hard part. A few months later, though, and James Kelly is still secretive and prickly. June knows he needs time to adjust-who wouldn't?He invites James Kelly to accompany him on a trip upstate as he checks in on a handful of farms that pay for his brand of magic to keep their crops and livestock in good health.The trip becomes a balancing act for June. His relationship with James Kelly needs careful tending, he's escorting a young witch to a school in Lilydale, and he's expected at a fertility festival in the Adirondacks. The festival becomes more of a problem than he anticipated: James Kelly is a fish out of water, an unexpected face from June's past makes an appearance, and worse, fairies are afoot.It takes everything June has to get through the trip in one piece and by the time he makes it back to New York City, he's not sure he's succeeded.

David never wanted to hurt anyone, but he didn't ever think he'd ever be made to choose between his own mutilation or someone else's life. With a threat like that hanging over his head, he returns to his hometown and reconnects with the one person who might believe that the things that come to visit him some nights aren't just another hallucination.Between his current predicament, an active serial killer, the still-unsolved murders of his classmates in high school, and trying to make his life livable again, David isn't headed down an easy path. He'll need all the help he can get and with a past like his, it isn't easy to ask.Lucky for him, an old friend and a new one join together to help David keep himself, and others, out of danger. Or, they do the best they can while trying to stay off the radar of the police, FBI, and whatever it is that's been making David's life a living hell.

The labyrinthine story of Tetris and how it escaped from behind the Iron Curtain to become an unlikely viral hit- and remake the history of video games.