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Matt Kearns and the remnants of the scientific team return to a ravaged America. Modern medicine has failed to halt the spread of the flesh-consuming parasite, and humans have been forced to hide, even from one another. The infected roam the cities and suburbs of a ruined nation. But the devastating effects on human physiology are only the beginning. Something has been let loose, something that the team were not prepared for - human nature itself.

The Silurian Period, approximately 420 million years ago. A time even before the dinosaurs. Evolution was just beginning to flex its muscles, and on land and in the sea, new creatures were evolving. In this strange world arrive a team of time travelling North Korean agents with one goal – change the past and alter the future. And if they are successful, the United States may never exist. Following them back in time are Alex Hunter and his team of elite HAWCs. And for Alex Hunter, this mission is personal.

On a desolate beach in far northern Scotland, the winter storms have been washing up all manner of things since time began. But buried in the centre of one smaller iceberg is a shard of ancient Viking pottery telling a partial tale of a hidden mysterious island beyond the ice and mist, that was home to a great treasure and even greater horrors. Thawing in the same block of ice was a rotting flap of skin that refused to be identified but had similar skin patterns to a creature not seen for 100 million years.

A thrilling new novella from best-selling author Greig Beck - starring the formidable Alex Hunter. When the coalition of Allied Forces established an international zone in Iraq, they meant to bring peace to the region. They were succeeding - until the moment something hulked into the zone and detonated a nuclear bomb. The last images from the area prior to the blast are not of drones or the trail of an ICBM. Instead they show a solitary figure carrying the enormous weapon to the soon-to-be ground zero on its back.

When a fame-hungry scientist brings an impossible, living specimen of a creature long thought extinct back from the wild jungles of South America he unwittingly brings along a passenger. Something with the potential to destroy every living thing on our planet. The infestation begins, rapidly overtaking medical resources and resisting all treatment.

Klaus and Doris have just made the discovery of their lives - a complete Neanderthal skeleton buried in a newly opened sinkhole. But on removing it, something else tumbles free. Something that switches on, and then calls home. Soon the owners are coming back, and nothing will stop their ruthless search for their lost prize.

What would you give for eternal life? An impossibly old man, a family gruesomely murdered and a woman whose collection of mythological artefacts defies belief: Professor Matt Kearns knows they are connected. These ancient clues bring Matt out of his self-imposed solitude to seek the fabled Fountain of Youth. This brings on a perilous odyssey across deserts and oceans and into the heart of a mountain, and Matt must overcome horrifying adversaries and creatures of legend and also unravel a 5,000-year-old mystery.

In Fathomless, the greatest predator the world has ever known is coming home in 2016. Carcharodon megalodon. The largest and most fearsome predator to have ever existed on our planet. Rumours of its existence in our modern oceans have persisted for centuries. Now, in a new adventure, the rumours explode into brutal and terrifying reality in Fathomless, by Greig Beck.

In the forbidden deserts of Yemen, a structure has been found—a buried pyramid—thousands of years older than anything previously known. And indications are, it was buried on purpose. What is discovered inside could prove that we’re not alone in the universe. And terrifyingly, after 7,000 years, there is a biological obscenity that remains, not yet dead. Ancient writing suggests the pyramid’s builders have been taking humans, and when evidence is found that in remote corners of the world people are still disappearing, the HAWCs are called to action.

100,000 years ago the object hit the lake at the deepest point, quickly sinking into its mile-deep Stygian darkness. The sheets of ice closed, time moved on and the land forgot. But over the centuries, legends grew of people vanishing, of strange, deformed animals and of an unexplained luminescence down in the lake depths. When Marcus Stenson won the lucrative contract to create a sturgeon fish farm on the site of disused paper mill on the shore of Lake Baikal, he thought he had won the lottery and refused to listen to the chilling folktales....

Hundreds of thousands of miles away on the dark side of the moon, the Russian lunar base has self-destructed - all personnel are dead, except one. Olga Sobakin, the lone survivor, seeks refuge at the rival American base. Olga tells the Americans her base was attacked by a horrifying and nightmarish creature - the pattern was the same - people vanished, leaving nothing behind but shredded clothing and an unidentifiable waste product. The Americans are sceptical of her story at first, but then people begin to disappear.

Mike Monroe and Jane Baxter barely survived their terrifying journey to the centre of the Earth. But a burning curiosity still tormented them about the origins of the pale creatures in the stygian darkness of the caves, and why were their dreams also haunted by something huge and monstrous that seemed as old as time itself? Now, news of a Russian military expedition has forced their hands and also meant they must go back to a place they swore they’d never return. But this time they’re going with a team of highly skilled mercenaries and scientists to help them track the Russians.

When a plane crashes into the Antarctic ice, exposing a massive cave beneath, a rescue and research team is dispatched. Twenty-four hours later, all contact is lost. Captain Alex Hunter and his highly trained squad of commandos are fast tracked to the hot zone to find out what went wrong - and to follow up the detection of a vast underground reservoir.

Massive sinkholes are opening across the country – each larger and deeper than the previous one. First the family pets go missing, and anyone living near one of the pits, is reporting strange phenomena – the vibrations, sulphurous odours and strange sounds rising up from the stygian depths. Then come the reports of horrifying ‘things’ rising from the darkness.When the people start disappearing the government is forced to act.

Zuerst bemerkte niemand, dass sich die Dinge zu verändern begannen. Ein paar Tiere verschwanden. Neue erschienen. Dann tauchten die ersten Monstrositäten auf. Niemand wollte die Wahrheit erkennen, außer Ben Cartwright und die anderen Überlebenden der Abenteuer um jenes Portal in den Tiefen des Amazonas. Nur sie ahnten etwas von der ungeheuren Bedrohung für die menschliche Rasse.

Tief unter der Erde, jenseits der tiefsten bekannten Höhlen, liegt eine verborgene Welt. Eine alte Frau in einem russischen Gefängnis hütet dieses Geheimnis... festgehalten in einem über fünfhundert Jahre alten Manuskript, welches den Weg zum sagenumwobenen Mittelpunkt der Erde weist. Sie weiß, dass diese Welt real ist. Denn vor fünfzig Jahren war sie selbst mit einem Team dorthin aufgebrochen – und kehrte als Einzige zurück.

"Ich bin es, Ally. Helft mir! Bitte helft mir!" Aus den Tiefen der russischen Kola-Bohrung wird eine geisterhafte, schluchzende Stimme aufgefangen. Sofort wird ein russisches Team ausgesandt, die Frau zu finden. Aber wie ist sie in diese Tiefen gelangt? Zeitgleich bereiten die Amerikaner eine eigene Expedition vor, nachdem sich ein weiterer Riss zum Mittelpunkt der Erde im Marianengraben im Westpazifik gebildet hat. Mike Monroe und Jane Baxter schließen sich der Expedition an.

Im Dezember 2018 folgten der ehemalige Special-Forces-Soldat Ben Cartwright und ein Team aus naiven Entdeckern den Hinweisen seines Ahnen zu einem Plateau mitten im Dschungel des Amazons. Der Legende nach sollte sich dort alle zehn Jahre ein Portal in eine längst vergessene Welt öffnen. Die wagemutigen Forscher schritten hindurch und fanden eine Welt voller Wunder... und des Grauens. Einzig Ben und seine Jugendliebe Emma überlebten. Doch dann begann sich das Portal wieder zu schließen und Ben blieb auf der anderen Seite gefangen.

Als Ben Cartwright in sein elterliches Heim zurückkehrt, um den Tod seines Vaters zu betrauern, stößt er zufällig auf eine Reihe von kryptischen Briefen zwischen Arthur Conan Doyle und seinem Ur-Urgroßvater, welcher 1908 während einer Dschungelexpedition im Amazonas spurlos verschwand. Dieser Briefwechsel lässt den unglaublichen Schluss zu, dass die Expeditionen seines Ahnen dem berühmten Autor als Basis für seine fantastische Geschichte über eine vergessene Welt voller urzeitlicher Lebewesen diente.

Die Legende von Lemuria, der geheimnisvollen Insel, mit all ihren Wundern und Gefahren erwies sich als überaus real. Aber die alten Geschichten über einen großen Schatz und noch größeres Grauen auf dieser Insel konnten Troy Storm und Anne Walsh nicht darauf vorbereiten, was sie tatsächlich dort vorfinden sollten – monströse Kreaturen, die im Meer, in der Luft und an Land lebten. Und nun sind die beiden unter ihnen gefangen... Aber sie haben einen Plan. Wenn sie das Herz Odins finden könnten, einen riesigen Rubin, könnte dieser ihnen zur Flucht verhelfen.