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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.

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.

Seit Anbeginn der Zeit werden an einem trostlosen Strand in Schottland die verschiedensten Dinge angespült. Im Inneren eines kleinen Eisbergs findet sich die Scherbe eines Gefäßes der Wikinger, die in Teilen von einer mysteriösen Insel zu berichten weiß, verborgen hinter Eis und Nebel, welche große Schätze und noch größere Schrecken bergen soll. Aus dem gleichen Eisblock taut auch ein verrottetes Stück Haut auf, welches sich nicht identifizieren lässt, dessen Hautmuster aber an eine Kreatur erinnert, die seit einhundert Millionen Jahren als ausgestorben gilt.

A ghostly, sobbing voice is detected from the depths of Russia’s Kola super deep borehole - nine miles down. A Russian team is dispatched in a desperate rescue mission to find the woman. But how did she get there? And how is she still alive? Meanwhile, the Americans prepare their own expedition after a new rift leading to the center of the Earth has been discovered at the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the Western Pacific Ocean. Mike Monroe and Jane Baxter agree to accompany the team of soldiers and scientists to seek a compound that is potentially a cure for cancer.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In the latest thrilling adventure in the Matt Kearns series from best-selling author Greig Beck, Matt is fighting for his life, the ones he loves and the existence of the entire human race. Around the world entire towns are being wiped out, a trail of boneless bodies left behind. Professor Matt Kearns, paleo-linguist, and a team of scientific and military specialists rush to decipher the hidden secrets of a pair of ancient stones that prophesise the next great extinction on Earth.

In December 2018, Ben Cartwright, former Special Forces soldier, and a team of naive explorers followed the clues left by his ancestor to a hidden plateau in the middle of the Amazon jungle. It was said that once every 10 years, a secret pathway was revealed to a world long since gone. They went, and what they found was a place of wonders and of horrors. Only Ben and his childhood love, Emma, survived. But when the doorway to the hidden world closed, Ben was trapped on the wrong side. Now, Emma has waited 10 long years for the doorway to open again. This time she’d be ready. 

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.

A sudden burst of radiation is detected beneath the desert in Iran. Alex Hunter – code name Arcadian – and his highly trained incursion team are dropped into the ruins of Persepolis. All they find is an empty underground facility – nothing to explain the gamma spike. It is as if a black hole has swept everything away.... Israel is threatening nuclear war. And someone, or something, is draining the fluids from the bodies of Iranian soldiers in the desert.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.