Dark Rising - Softcover

Beck, Greig

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1250264367 ISBN 13: 9781250264367

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, 2011

Synopsis

A CATACLYSMIC EVENTWhen a massive amount of gamma radiation is detected somewhere beneath the desert of Iran, the world is on edge. Is it a nuclear weapon—or worse? Alex Hunter and his highly trained incursion team is on a mission to find out. When they arrive at the ruins of Persepolis, they find an underground facility but no lab, no weapons, no scientists—not even radiation. A black hole has taken everything…
AN ANCIENT PROPHECYMeanwhile, Iran is preparing for the return of the prophet. Israel is threatening nuclear war. And the details about Alex’s special U.S. military venture—code Arcadian—have been stolen. Then another gamma spike is detected…and someone, or something, is draining the fluids from the bodies of Iranian soldiers in the desert.
A RACE AGAINST DARKNESSNow it’s up to Alex to follow the traces of radiation all the way to the ancient caves of Arak, where he’ll come face to face with a creature from his darkest nightmares. Is it game-over for Alex and his team? Or are greater forces at work as the world reaches its natural end—and mankind casts its final judgment?This book published as Dark Rising and as Return of the Prophet

About this title

About the Author

Greig Beck grew up across the road from Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. His early days were spent surfing, sunbaking and reading science fiction on the sand. He then went on to study computer science, immerse himself in the financial software industry and later received an MBA. Greig is the director of a software company but still finds time to write and surf. He lives in Vaucluse, Sydney with his wife, son and an enormous black German shepherd. He is the author of Beneath the Dark Ice and Dark Rising.

Edition details

• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1250264367
• ISBN 13: 9781250264367
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304