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Content

"The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, best-selling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award. When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users' personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company's modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can't believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world--even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman's ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge".

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Abstract

Sie brauchen eine Information? Sie kennen die Person, die diese Information hat, aber sie hüllt sich in Schweigen? Lassen Sie das meine Sorge sein. Ich hole immer die Wahrheit aus meiner Zielperson heraus. Denn ich bin ein Spezialist. Dabei befolge ich stets meinen Kodex. Eines Tages bekam ich den Auftrag, gegen meinen Kodex zu verstoßen. Die Folgen waren schrecklich. Für meinen Auftraggeber. Mein Name ist Geiger. Ich spiele Violine. Und foltere Menschen.

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Ein Roman, der eine eigenwillige Interpretation des Begriffs "Information Retrieval" (Name der Firma des Protagonisten) bietet. "Der Autor traut sich was. Ein Folterknecht als Hauptfigur. Und als Introduktion wird der Mann namens Geiger gleich bei der Arbeit gezeigt. Ein effektiver, kaltschnäuziger Profi, eben ein Spezialist seines Fachs. Er knackt seinen »Jones«, so heißen die verhörten Opfer intern, und geht nach getaner Arbeit in sein wenig beschauliches Heim, das einer Festung gleicht. Währenddessen besorgt Partner Informationen den nächsten Fall betreffend. Der alles ändern wird. Denn Geigers eiserne Regeln »keine Frauen, keine Kinder« wird gebrochen, als der zwölfjährige Ezra in den Verhörraum geführt wird. Zwangsläufig stellt sich Geiger gegen seine Auftraggeber und ist alsbald mit Kind, Kollege und dessen geistig verwirrter Schwester Lily auf der Flucht vor gnadenlosen Häschern, die moralische Einwände nicht interessieren.

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Biographed

Turing, A.

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