Books like Geek Mafia by Rick Dakan

Andy Weir’s debut science‑fiction bestseller follows astronaut Mark Watney, stranded on Mars in 2035, as he uses ingenuity to survive.

In 2044, teenager Wade Watts lives for the virtual utopia OASIS, where he hunts legendary puzzles from old pop culture for a hidden prize that could change the world.

Neal Stephenson’s cyberpunk classic follows hacker Hiro as he confronts a deadly digital drug in a slick, future Metaverse full of hackers, virtual reality, and ancient Sumerian intrigue.

After a terrorist attack in San Francisco, 17‑year‑old Marcus and his friends are held by the Department of Homeland Security; when released, they find their city under total surveillance and decide to fight back.

Reamde follows a high‑stakes hostage crisis intertwined with online gaming, money laundering, and global crime, as a diverse cast mobilizes to rescue a captive caught between Russian Mafia, Islamic terrorists, and virtual intrigue.

When a legendary game designer dies, a dormant computer daemon awakens, threatening to dismantle society. An unlikely team must unravel its secrets before the world is lost to an unseen, autonomous threat.

Flynne, a young woman living in a drug‑reliant city, helps her veteran brother Burton test a new virtual reality game. When the beta test turns into a murder investigation, she discovers a deadly conspiracy that threatens her life.

Neal Stephenson explores World War II cryptography and 21st‑century data security through intertwined stories of a wartime code‑breaker, his grandson, and a secret mission to create a "data haven."

In 1869, three murders rock a remote Scottish Highland community. Roderick Macrae is arrested, and his memoir—supported by trial transcripts and newspaper reports—asks whether guilt or madness drove him to strike down a constable and two others.

In the third Camel Club installment, ex‑Green Beret Oliver Stone and his rogue group face threats from past enemies and a lethal assassin who has targeted Stone himself.

The 23rd novel in James Patterson’s Alex Cross mystery series follows the seasoned detective through a new homicide investigation in a glamorous North Carolina setting.

In a futuristic solar‑system society, The Quantum Thief follows a cunning thief amid advanced encryption, shared‑memory communication, and a civilization born from a virtual gaming guild.

Detective Michael Bennett returns to New York with his family after dismantling a crime lord’s empire. When a charred body appears in a ruined building that once hosted a strange party, Bennett dives into a hidden criminal underworld he never expected.

When a 13‑year‑old insists her sister’s killer is innocent, a high‑profile law firm must dig into a seemingly closed murder case to determine if justice was truly served.

A former high‑school best friend, now a Seattle PI executive, uncovers the truth about her missing friend’s murder, a serial killer tied to a past obsession, and new bodies that echo a chilling crime.

Maxine Revere, a former high‑school friend of a murdered girl, returns as an investigative reporter to clear her friend Kevin's name and confront a decades‑old unsolved cold case that still haunts their small town.

Detective Jordan and his partner investigate a killer targeting the wealthy in New York City.

When a violent crime shatters a suburban Massachusetts town, a seasoned assistant district attorney learns his fourteen‑year‑old son is accused of murdering a classmate, forcing him to confront the limits of fatherly knowledge, justice, and truth.

In the early years of the nation, a young lawyer returns to New York to investigate his father’s murder, uncovering a deadly fraud that threatens both the city and the country.

"Jesse and Eric were roommates in the tiny town of Caldwell, Idaho, two nineteen-year-old working-class kids squeezing out a living with their seven-dollar-an-hour jobs selling and fixing computers. College was never in the cards. They spent every spare cent on their computers, and every spare moment online.". "Jesse and Eric were geeks - suspicious or disdainful of authority figures, proud of their status as outsiders, fervent in their belief in the positive power of technology. They'd been outsiders as long as they could remember, living far from the mainstream of school or town life. Nobody spoke for them; they were on nobody's social or political agenda.". "Geeks is the story of how Jesse and Eric - and others like them - used technology to make it possible to change their lives and alter their destiny. They rode the Internet out of Idaho to Chicago, a city they had never seen, searching for the American dream, a better life. Geeks tells of this brave and difficult journey, as two self-described social misfits use the resources of the Internet to try to construct a new future for themselves, escape the boundaries of their dead-end lives, and find a community they can belong to.". "Geeks explores a growing subculture about which many of us know little, a world with its own language, traditions, and taboos. In telling the stories of Jesse, Eric, and others like them, Geeks reveals the very human face of technology."--BOOK JACKET.

A journalist in London uncovers a decades‑old murder mystery tied to her grandmother's wartime past, leading her on a dangerous transatlantic quest for truth amid double‑crossing allies and hidden enemies.