Tag: Review

EARTHCORE (The Sun Symbol Series Book 1)

Related Posts
Subterranean: A Thriller

Beneath the ice at the bottom of the earth is a magnificent subterranean labyrinth, a place of breathtaking wonders - and terrors beyond imagining. A team of specialists led by archaeologist ashley carter has been hand-picked to explore this secret Read more

Ararat: A Novel

Author Christopher Golden’s Ararat is a supernatural thriller about a mountain adventure that quickly turns into a horrific nightmare. Ararat is the heart-pounding tale of an adventure that goes wrong...on a biblical scale. When an earthquake reveals a secret cave Read more

Earthcore
Date:
MainCategory:
Type:
Genre:
Published: 2018-04-03
Lenght:
Seriesize:
Author:
Narrator:

Deep below a desolate Utah mountain lies the largest platinum deposit ever discovered. A billion-dollar find, it waits for any company that can drill a world’s record, three-mile-deep mine shaft. EarthCore is the company with the technology, the resources and the guts to go after the mother lode.

Young executive Connell Kirkland is the company’s driving force, pushing himself and those around him to uncover the massive treasure. But at three miles below the surface, where the rocks are so hot they burn bare skin, something has been waiting for centuries.

Waiting … and guarding. Kirkland and EarthCore are about to find out firsthand why this treasure has never been unearthed.

Relic: (Agent Pendergast serie) by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Relic: (Agent Pendergast serie) by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Date:
MainCategory:
Type:
Genre:
trope:
Published: 1996
Lenght:
Seriesize:
Authors: ,
Narrator:
Reception:

Relic, a Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child thriller that introduces FBI Special Agent Pendergast

Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum’s dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human….

But the museum’s directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders.

Museum researcher Margo Green must find out who – or what – is doing the killing. But can she do it in time to stop the massacre?

The Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft

The Shadow Out of Time
Date:
MainCategory:
Type:
Genres: ,
tropes: ,
Published: 2017-09-22
Lenght:
Author:
Narrator:
Reception:

H.P. Lovecraft’s classic novella blending science fiction with elements of horror and psychological thriller. Through the experiences of Nathaniel Peaslee, we learn of the extraterrestrial great race of Yith. For eons, the Yithians explored space and time by projecting their consciousnesses into the bodies of beings throughout the universe, in the future and the past.

Sometimes confused as spiritual possession, the Yithians used this body switching technique to amass great knowledge. Switching bodies en masse to avoid destruction, the Yithians travelled to prehistoric earth. While questioning his sanity following episodes of possession, Peaslee discovers clues of the Yithians and their alien enemies.

At the Mountains of Madness

At the Mountains of Madness
Date:
MainCategory:
Type:
Genres: ,
trope:
Published: 2014
Lenght:
Author:
Narrator:
Receptions: ,

“On an expedition to Antarctica, Professor William Dyer and his colleagues discover the remains of ancient half-vegetable, half-animal lifeforms. The extremely early date in the geological strata is surprising because of the highly-evolved features found in these previously unknown life-forms.

Through a series of dark revelations, violent episodes, and misunderstandings, the group learns of Earth’s secret history and legacy.” –Amazon.com.

Sandstorm: A Sigma Force Novel (Sigma Force Novels Book 1)

Sandstorm
Date:
MainCategory:
Type:
Genres: ,
trope:
Published: 2010-01-21
Lenght:
Seriesize:
Author:
Narrator:

The explosive first adventure in James Rollins’ bestselling Sigma Force series!

A freak explosion in the British museum in London ignites a perilous race for an earth-shaking power source buried deep beneath the sands of history. Painter Crowe is an agent for Sigma Force, a covert arm of the Defense Department tasked with keeping dangerous scientific discoveries out of enemy hands. When an ancient artifact points the way toward the legendary “Atlantis of the Sands,” Painter must travel across the world in search of the lost city-and a destructive power beyond imagining.

But Painter has competition. A band of ruthless mercenaries, led by a former friend and ally, are also intent on claiming the prize, and they will destroy anyone who gets in their way.

Ancient history collides with cutting-edge science-with the safety of the world at stake!

Wit’ch Fire (The Banned and The Banished Book 1)

Wit'ch Fire
Date:
MainCategory:
Type:
Genre:
Published: 2002
Lenght:
Seriesize:
Author:
Narrator:
Reception:
Protagonist:
Long ago the Mages of Alasea, beset by a dark and implacable evil, made a last desperate stand to preserve some remnant of their once-beautiful land. Knowing their own destruction to be inevitable, the Mages gathered the last of their magic and stored it away against the need and peril of a distant time. In doing so the Mages gave the people of Alasea a future and a hope -- and damned themselves forever ...…

Author also write under the name James rollins

Subterranean: A Thriller

Subterranean
Date:
MainCategory:
Type:
Genres: ,
Published: 2014
Lenght:
Author:
Narrator:
Reception:

Beneath the ice at the bottom of the earth is a magnificent subterranean labyrinth, a place of breathtaking wonders – and terrors beyond imagining. A team of specialists led by archaeologist ashley carter has been hand-picked to explore this secret place and to uncover the riches it holds.

But they are not the first to venture here – and those they follow did not return. There are mysteries here older than time, and revelations that could change the world. But there are also things that should not be disturbed – and a devastating truth that could doom ashley and the expedition: they are not alone.

Season Of The Harvest (Harvest Trilogy, Book 1)

Season of the Harvest
Date:
MainCategory:
Type:
Genre:
trope:
Published: 2011-03
Lenght:
Seriesize:
Author:
Narrator:

What if the genetically modified crops that we’re being forced to depend on for food weren’t really created by man? What if they had a far more sinister purpose? FBI Special Agent Jack Dawson investigates the gruesome murder of his best friend and fellow agent who had been pursuing a group of eco-terrorists.

The group’s leader, Naomi Perrault, is a beautiful geneticist who Jack believes conspired to kill his friend, and is claiming that a major international conglomerate developing genetically engineered crops is plotting a sinister transformation of our world that will lead humanity to extinction.

As Jack is drawn into a quietly raging war that suddenly explodes onto the front pages of the news, he discovers that her claims may not be so outrageous after all. Together, the two of them must battle a horror Jack could never have imagined, with the fate of all life on Earth hanging in the balance…

Gallows Thief: A Novel by Bernard Cornwell

Gallows Thief
Date:
MainCategory:
Period:
Type:
Genres: ,
trope:
Published: 2005-05-10
Lenght:
Author:
Narrator:
Reception:
The year is 1820. Rider Sandman, a hero of Waterloo, returns to London to wed his fiancÉe. But instead of settling down to fame and glory, he finds himself penniless in a country where high unemployment and social unrest rage, and where men—innocent or guilty—are hanged for the merest of crimes. When he's offered a job as private investigator to re-open the case of a painter due to be hanged for a murder he didn't…

Agincourt: A Novel by Bernard Cornwell

Agincourt LP
Date:
MainCategory:
Period:
Type:
Genre:
Published: 2009-02-03
Lenght:
Author:
Narrator:
Reception:
"The greatest writer of historical adventures today" (Washington Post) tackles his richest, most thrilling subject yet—the heroic tale of Agincourt. Young Nicholas Hook is dogged by a cursed past—haunted by what he has failed to do and banished for what he has done. A wanted man in England, he is driven to fight as a mercenary archer in France, where he finds two things he can love: his instincts as a fighting man, and a…