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In 1655, a group of explorers from the Emerald Star entered the Namibian Desert in search of an ancient relic rumored to be hidden in a secret temple. None of the crew ever returned - but stories of their mysterious demise continued to be told. In the present-day Turkish subterranean city of Derinkuyu, a strange wooden placard is discovered floating in an old well. It’s covered in the script of a language long forgotten, but Sam Reilly has seen the text before. The words suggest an ancient race might still exist, and are in the process of building a new temple. The question is - is it the same temple where Dr. Billie Swan is being held prisoner?

A Russian cargo ship sinks in the shallow waters of the Bering Strait, and somehow vanishes without a trace. In the Colorado Plateau Desert, a cowboy follows a river of sand into an undiscovered ruin. A tunnel-boring operation between the Alaskan and Siberian peninsulas is stalled when its largest burrowing machine disappears into an abyss. Sam Reilly leads a search and rescue mission for the missing ship and crew. What should be a simple operation quickly turns into something much more dangerous.

The US Navy’s most advanced nuclear attack submarine, the USS Omega Deep was the first to disappear. It was followed swiftly by the loss of the Russian spy vessel Yalta and then the Feng Jian, a Chinese aircraft carrier. Sam Reilly and his unique team of troubleshooters are requested at the express order of the president of the United States of America to locate the Omega Deep and determine the cause of these unexplained tragedies before they lead to World War III.

A city cloaked in a legend too fanciful to be true. An ancient tribe, who have vowed to protect their Gods until the end of time. A shipwreck scattered with gold, and drawings of a mythical beast. Sam Reilly is on the hunt to find an ancient tomb, before El Dorado is lost forever....

Extreme weather conditions are wreaking havoc on the world, and baffled scientists are unable to discover the cause. The most powerful hurricane in history approaches New York, while at the same time atmospheric rivers flood Las Vegas. Most bizarre of all: a tempestuous mass of dark, foreboding sky seems to be spreading across the globe. In Arizona, an astronomer tries to decipher the hidden message inside a 13,000-year-old megalithic stone, which just might hold the key to everything. Can Sam Reilly and his unique team break the Code to Extinction?

In 1974, local farmers outside Xi'an, China, discovered an army of more than 8,000 life-sized ancient terracotta warriors buried in a series of pits. Historians believed that the warriors were placed there to guard the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. The historians were wrong. The Terracotta Army was there to prevent the evil buried within from ever surfacing again. Now Sam Reilly must disentangle fact from fiction, and discover what ancient danger has been uncovered…and if there is any way to stop it.

On board Phoenix Airlines Flight 320, Andrew Goddard awakens to discover the cockpit empty and all the passengers unconscious. In the Colorado Monarch Mountains, an old gold miner discovers a fiendish stone mask sealed inside an obsidian chamber. Sam Reilly has just three weeks to find out how the two unlikely events are connected, and the secret behind it might change everything we thought we knew about humanity.

Fresh from his success with the search and rescue of the USS Omega Deep, Sam Reilly was looking forward to some much-needed rest. Not everyone had the same idea though. When a panicked man with purple eyes grabs him at gunpoint and takes him hostage, Sam knows that this is more than a mere ransom opportunity; this man is scared of something. And Sam is going to have to find what it is if he wants to get out of this alive.

In 1829 the Spanish slave ship, Midas, left Mendiland (modern-day Sierra Leone) headed for the Americas. During the Atlantic crossing, the slaves revolted, taking control of the ship. Midas became a pirate vessel, attacking Spanish slavers and merchants alike. In the present day, while hunting for the Midas, Sam Reilly learns of an escalating number of mysterious deaths, superstitiously whispered to be the fault of Medusa’s Curse, and the only clue to stopping it is deciphering a Greek myth thousands of years in the making.

The offer - $20 billion split between four leading scientists on alternative energies to purchase and then squash their research lines, which include the recent discovery of a powerful new energy source capable of replacing mankind’s reliance on fossil fuels. There’s no doubt their discovery is worth 10 times that much. But will any one of them live if they refuse? At the same time, the greatest technological advancement in warfare since the creation of the atomic bomb has been discovered and is being offered to the highest bidder.

On March 11, 2011, the Japanese fishing trawler Hoshi Maru accidentally hauled up something deadly into its live-fish hold. The crew, having discovered their mistake, raced toward the harbor in the hope that they might survive. They never made it. Presumed sunk by the tsunami that ravaged the coastline of Japan, its crew were declared dead. Seven years later, the shipwreck washed up on Cannon Beach, Oregon....

In the dead of night, a decrepit, unmarked motor yacht drifts into the medieval port of Vernazza, Italy. The run-down vessel forms a jarring contrast to the pastel colored tower homes and terraced vineyards surrounding the natural harbor along the coast of Cinque Terra. Less than 50 yards away, a man wakes up on board a small rowboat, covered in blood. Lying next to him is a woman with two - execution style - bullet holes to her forehead.

Present day, in the Weddell Sea off the coast of Antarctica, a woman wakes up on a cruise ship to discover she’s the only person left aboard, despite no apparent fault with the ship. Sam Reilly, already on a rescue mission to Antarctica to save five French scientists, may be the only person standing in the way of the completion of The Cassidy Project.

In East Antarctica, a team of scientists drilled a hole in the Vostok ice sheet to take a sample of the subterranean lake 2.2 miles below the surface. It was the deepest drill ever performed through ice anywhere in the world.

On January 22, 1945, a secret weapon of unimaginable power was brought from the quiet town of Haigerloch in Germany’s southwest and loaded onto a plane waiting at Stuttgart. Less than a dozen people knew of the weapon’s existence, and even less knew where it was being taken. The aircraft, its crew, and its remarkable cargo were never seen again. Until now.

After the world’s most expensive diamond heist goes wrong, Jack Overton finds himself running from the man who had once been his master - England’s most powerful magistrate of the 18th century, Sir Robert Williams. With deep ties to one of the most violent secret societies in Europe, the honorable Sir Robert Williams will stop at nothing to catch him. There are few places in the western world that would harbor such a fugitive, and he finds himself headed for the one place that no one would bother to look: Great Britain’s newest penal colony - New South Wales.

Die Zivilisation, die über Jahrhunderte als verschwunden galt, droht das Ende der Welt auszulösen... Die Abenteuer-Thriller-Reihe von Christopher Cartwright geht spannend weiter! Nur einige wenige Menschen wissen heute, was die Bewohner des historischen Atlantis einst getötet hat und wo sich dieser mysteriöse Ort befindet. Ein Wissen so geheim, dass sie, um es zu hüten, selbst vor Morden nicht zurückschrecken. Das gleiche Ereignis, das einst Atlantis zerstört hat, bedroht jetzt unsere heutige Welt.

Ein Geheimnis, das gelöst werden muss, bevor es die gesamte Menschheit zerstört... Band 2 der spannenden Abenteuer-Thriller-Reihe jetzt als Hörbuch! Am 18. Februar 1812 erleidet die Emily Rose an der Südküste Australiens Schiffbruch. Die Überlebenden sind gezwungen, tausende Kilometer durch das unerforschte Land zu laufen, um die einzige Siedlung, Sydney Cove, zu erreichen. Nach einigen Kilometern landeinwärts stoßen sie auf die Überreste eines monströsen Schiffes, das weit größer ist als alles, was die britische Marine je gebaut hat.

Ein lange verschollenes Luftschiff mit einer tödlichen Fracht... Der spannende Abenteuer-Thriller von Christopher Cartwright jetzt auch als Hörbuch! Verborgen in der Dunkelheit der Nacht im Jahre 1939 verlässt ein geheimes Luftschiff das Gebiet des Deutschen Reiches. Seine Fracht: eine Reihe reicher jüdischer Familien und einige der einflussreichsten Personen jener Zeit, die ihre wertvollsten Besitztümer mit sich führen. Einer dieser Gegenstände ist ebenso gefährlich wie unbezahlbar. Doch das Luftschiff hat sein Ziel nie erreicht.