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Alex Hunter, code named Arcadian, wakes up with no knowledge of who he is, in the care of a woman he doesn't recognize, in a country not his own. But there is a calling deep within him, to return home to Black Mountain. Formed a billion years ago, the Appalachian's Black Mountain hosts a terrible legend. Only one elder remains to guard its long-forgotten, deadly secret and there is a fear that there is evil lurking again. Some hikers have gone missing, and the rescue team sent to search for them has not returned.

Alex Hunter - in the mission that turned him from a normal man into the weapon known as the Arcadian - and the elite team of soldiers known as the Hotzone All-Forces Warfare Commandos must enter a hostile country to rescue a defected Chechen researcher from the centre of a country at war. But the HAWCs are not the only ones looking for the rogue scientist and the mysterious package he carries with him. A brutal and relentless killer and his death squad are on the trail, too - and they bring a savagery with them that Hunter and his team have never witnessed before in modern warfare.

The explosive sequel to the Greig Beck blockbuster Fathomless. Cate Granger is chasing ghosts. The monster shark she once encountered was a remnant of the ancient world - one that had escaped an underwater lair previously sealed off for millions of years. At great cost, Cate and her allies had killed the beast. So, no more ghosts, no more shadows. All gone. Or so Cate thought.

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.

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.

Something has travelled for a billion years to find us - and now it has. In space, Commander Mitch Granger and his crew are nearing the end of their scientific mission - along with their covert satellite photography for the military. As they prepare for reentry, an unknown object emerges from the void: the name given to deep, dark space. The object proves impossible to evade. The crew have one option left - to bring the fragment aboard....

The South American Boreal: one of the last truly unexplored jungles on our planet. In its dark heart is an ancient crater basin, sealed in by a living cage, making it a time capsule for an ancient, deadly ecosystem. Matt Kearns, Carla Nero and a team of scientist explorers have found their way in. In the crater's sunken interior are creatures from a primordial nightmare. Dangers lurk in every treetop, under every rock or loom monstrously over them. It is a place where mankind is out of time.

An ancient evil awakens ... Alex Hunter has been found – sullen, alone, leaving a path of destruction as he wanders across America. Only the foolish get in the way of the drifter wandering the streets late at night. Across the world, something has been released by a treasure hunter in a hidden chamber of the Basilica Cisterns in Istanbul. Something hidden there by Emperor Constantine himself, and deemed by him too horrifying and dangerous to ever be set free.

Deep in the steaming jungles of Paraguay, Aimee Weir is in trouble. The petrobiologist has found what she was looking for - a unique microorganism in a natural gas deposit - but it proves to be more destructive than anyone could have imagined. A contagion is striking down all in its wake. The camp is quarantined, but workers start to vanish in the night. Is it fear of contamination - or has something far more lethal come to the surface? Something that has been trapped beneath the miles of stone, waiting... for us.

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.

Pompeii, present day: archaeologist Maria Monti is working at a new dig site. Like hundreds before her she is investigating the night that Vesuvius erupted, consuming the ancient city with choking ash, scalding steam, and rivers of lava. But she has just unearthed something that shouldn’t be there, something that makes her question everything she knows about the disappearances of that fateful event. Several hundred miles away Alex Hunter’s family is holidaying in southern Italy when Mount Etna begins to shake, and ash begins to blanket the countryside....

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.

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.

There’s something growing deep in the old Angel Mine - something the Native Americans warned us about - And now it’s rising again. Mitch Taylor, ex-Special Forces medic, is seeking a quiet life in the town of Eldon. Tragedy has dogged his life, and he sees the small friendly place as a second chance. But buried deep below the friendly smiles and quaint painted houses is an old abandoned mine that holds a legend of an ancient and terrible god. In the mine’s labyrinthine depths, something has been growing, something from a time of myth when ancient gods strode the Earth.

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.

Unterhalb der englischen Stadt Ipswich gräbt sich ein Tunnelbohrteam durch massives Gestein, als es unverhofft auf ein uraltes Höhlensystem voller Tierknochen stößt. Seltsamerweise finden sich dort auch die Überreste von Rittern in Rüstungen, von denen einige zerquetscht waren und deren Knochen und Fleisch geschmolzen zu sein schienen. Und noch etwas wird gefunden: ein riesiger, eiförmiger Rubin, der wie eine untergehende Sonne leuchtet.

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.