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The hunt for Caliburn’s offspring leads Sam into the depths of a forgotten cave – where he stumbles upon an antique Basque Astrolabe that shouldn’t exist. The discovery sets off a chain reaction, dragging Sam into a deadly conflict with a Secret Society that has been protecting a hidden truth since the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804. Meriwether Lewis was murdered to keep the secret buried.

Sam Reilly was looking forward to some much-needed rest. But when a panicked man with purple eyes grabs him at gunpoint and takes him hostage. 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.

A mystery wrapped in a myth about the origins of humanity. A race to find an ancient pyramid hidden in plain sight. A secret so dangerous its guardians will kill to protect it.

On board Phoenix Airlines Flight 318, 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.

In 1939 a secret airship departed Germany in the dark of night filled with some of the most influential people of its time, each carrying their most valuable possessions. One such item amongst them was as dangerous as it was priceless. The airship never reached its destination.

A private jet crashes in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, killing everyone on board. One of the passengers was Darren Young, an entomologist who was meant to be working alone in Papua New Guinea, studying rare beetles. So why was he on a private jet on the other side of the world? And why, as his plane entered its fatal descent, did he send a text message to his wife containing just three simple words: “FIND SAM REILLY!”

During Operation Desert Storm, Major William Harrison led a team of Special Forces on a secret mission to capture Haidar Kamel, a ruthless arms dealer. The operation revealed a treasure trove of dangerous weapons, along with a series of strange artifacts from the ancient world. One of the most unlikely discoveries was a small bronze medallion. They named it the Medallion of Petra, and somehow, it was much more dangerous and valuable than anyone could have ever imagined…

A long-lost airship with a deadly cargo. . . In 1939 a secret airship departed Germany in the dark of night filled with some of the most influential people of its time, each carrying their most valuable possessions. One such item amongst them was as dangerous as it was priceless. The airship never reached its destination. In present day, former Marine troubleshooter Sam Reilly discovers a missing clue about the lost airship, triggering a violent treasure hunt against the most dangerous and ruthless men in the world today. . .. . . and time is running out.

In the Strait of Gibraltar, a pod of six orcas launch a coordinated attack on the Céleste Mistral, a 50-foot sailing vessel – sending it to the depths. Along the Amazon River, pink dolphins exhibit a never-before-seen behavior, forging an enigmatic bond with an ancient, isolated tribe. On the seabed of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone – a 2. 32-million-square-mile stretch of ocean between Hawaii and Mexico – a deep-sea mining operation begins harvesting billions of tons of polymetallic nodules, promising to revolutionize the extraction of precious metals.

In the heart of an Atlantic superstorm, the Tahila fights to stay afloat. Amid the chaos, the ship’s collision-avoidance system blares a warning. Radar shows no ship. No signal. No lights. Just a strange silhouette beneath the waves. A searchlight is focussed into the raging sea and the crew spot something impossible: the slanted roof of a house with glass windows and solid walls… adrift in the open ocean more than a thousand miles from land. Lightning flashes – and behind one of the windows, a woman is staring out, her eyes wide with a silent plea.

Maritime salvage expert Sam Reilly is flown in to find out what went wrong, and how to re-float the ocean-going behemoth. Something about the accident just doesn’t seem right…. In Sudan, a team of archaeologists exploring the ancient tombs buried within the Pyramids of Meroë discover one of the greatest archaeological hauls since King Tutankhamun’s tomb was uncovered in the Valley of the Kings.

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.

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.

Fifteen years ago, 8-year-old Ethan Jones watched a stranger bury something in the mining ruins of the Rhyolite Desert, Nevada. Even at his young age, he knew what he’d just seen was important.

Kelly Robinson, a 24-year-old economics doctoral student, spent the day on a perilous climb to Abuna Yemata Guh, a 5th-century monolithic church carved into a sheer cliffside in Ethiopia. Inside, the chapel walls were covered with vibrant frescoes, their colors deep and rich, depicting serene biblical figures, saints, and angels. But then something happened that science couldn’t explain.

A group of cave divers exploring the deepest recess of a previously unexplored section of the Chevé Cave Mexico—one of the deepest caves on Earth—sent a message up from the bottom of the flooded cave, via a sealed bottle that floated to the surface.

For centuries, legends have whispered of an extraordinary group of ancient people whose lifespans stretched two or three times longer than ordinary people. Though not truly immortal, these enigmatic individuals amassed lifetimes of unparalleled knowledge, their advancements so astonishing that they were mistaken as gods.

Pax West was only four years old when he nearly killed another child. Extensive physical and behavioral testing revealed a unique genetic anomaly that might explain his extreme responses to external threats. Specifically, his ventromedial prefrontal cortex – the part of the brain that governs emotions, morals, and ethics – was missing. Neurologists had never encountered such a condition. Most believed he wouldn't survive to adulthood. Some even suggested he should be locked up – or euthanized while there was still time. But Dr. Alan Kepler, a leading neurologist working with the U. S.

Pax West, a former CIA Ghost with no past and no future, alights an Amtrak train in Portland, Oregon. He wasn’t there long before a detective arrests him for the murder of a local woman. The detective says he has him on CCTV. The woman was his niece, making this personal. The usual judicial rules didn’t apply as far as he was concerned. Pax was thrown into Oregon State Penitentiary. It was a mistake, but it would get cleaned up in the morning. Inside, Pax witnessed another inmate – Elliot Brooks – getting beaten up. It was an uneven fight.

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.