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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Alex Hunter
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y separately published work icon Arcadian Genesis Greig Beck , Sydney : Momentum Books , 2012 Z1917986 2012 single work novel horror thriller 'An aeon ago it crashed into the frozen earth. Millennia later it was removed from the icy soil, still functioning. They opened it ... they shouldn't have. 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 center of a country at war....' (Momentum Books website).
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y separately published work icon Beneath the Dark Ice Greig Beck , Sydney : Macmillan Australia , 2009 Z1598353 2009 single work novel thriller horror

'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. Accompanying the team is an assortment of researchers, including petrobiologist Aimee Weir. If the unidentified substance proves to be an energy source, every country in the world will want to know about it - some would even kill for it.

Once inserted into the cave system, they don't find any survivors - not even a trace of their bodies. Primeval hieroglyphs hint at an ancient civilisation, and an ancient danger. Spectres of the dead haunt the tunnels. Within hours, one of the party will die.

"Soldiers, we are not alone. Prepare to go hot."

To bring his team out alive, Alex will need every one of his mysterious abilities beneath the dark ice.' (From the publisher's website.)

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y separately published work icon Return of the Prophet Dark Rising Greig Beck , Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2010 Z1689791 2010 single work novel thriller horror When 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...Meanwhile, 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 name: 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. Now 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?

[Source: Greig Beck's website]



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y separately published work icon This Green Hell Greig Beck , Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2011 Z1908093 2011 single work novel thriller horror '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' (Trove record)
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y separately published work icon Black Mountain Greig Beck , Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2012 Z1907792 2012 single work novel thriller horror 'Alex Hunter, code named Arcadian, wakes up with no knowledge of who he is, in the care of a woman he doesn't recognise, in a country not his own. But there is a calling deep within him, to return home to Black Mountain. The Appalachian's Black Mountain hosts a terrible legend. Only one elder remains to guard its long-forgotten secret. Some hikers are missing, and the rescue team sent to search for them has not returned. In nearby Ashville, Professor Matt Kearns is drawn into the mystery of an artefact recovered from the mountainside. A survivor is then found half-alive, covered in blood blood revealed to be not quite human. Alex must confront the horror that stalks the frozen mountain, and also the one haunting his very soul.' (Trove record)
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y separately published work icon Gorgon Greig Beck , Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2014 7731423 2014 single work novel fantasy

'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 haunting 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. It now stalks the land, leaving its victims turned to stone, and is headed on a collision course with a NATO base. The Americans can't let it get there, but can't be seen to intervene. There is only one option they need their best HAWC. Alex Hunter, code name Arcadian. But the HAWCs are not the only ones seeking out the strange being Uli Borshov, Borshov the Beast, who has a score to settle with the Arcadian, moves to intercept him, setting up a deadly collision of epic proportions where only one can survive. Join Alex Hunter as he learns to trust his former commander and colleagues again as the HAWCs challenge an age-old being straight from myth and legend.' (Publisher's summary)

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y separately published work icon Hammer of God Greig Beck , Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2015 9005823 2015 single work novel thriller horror

'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.

'Consulting an ancient prophecy, scholars warn that an ancient evil has returned, wielding the power to raise the dead to do its bidding.

'Major Jack Hammerson, leader of the elite commandos known as the HAWCs knows that only one one soldier is up to the task. But he cannot do it alone.

'Alex Hunter, the Arcadian, teams up with old ally and Mossad spy Adira Senesh to unravel the age old prophecy, tracing it back to the very heart of madness.' (Publication summary)

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y separately published work icon Kraken Rising Greig Beck , Sydney : Momentum Books , 2015 9048510 2015 single work novel thriller horror

'The Arcadian returns to the dark ice in a reprisal of one of his first and most deadly missions. But this time the stakes couldn’t be higher.

'In 2008, a top secret US submarine went missing on its test voyage off the coast of Antarctica. After years silent, its emergency beacon is suddenly activated, but strangely, the beacon is emanating from a point miles below the ice sheets of the frozen continent.

'The race is on. The Chinese government, alerted at the same time as the Americans, is after the submarine’s secrets. And the Americans need to retrieve their technology, quickly and quietly, from a place now marked as an international forbidden zone.

'With the reluctant assistance of petrobiologist Aimee Weir, Alex Hunter and his team of HAWCs return to the location of their first mission together.

'But only a few members of the team know the truth. A treacherous horror lies in wait for them, deep beneath the Antarctic ice.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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y separately published work icon The Void Greig Beck , Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2018 13726009 2018 single work novel science fiction

'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.

'Immediately, all contact with the shuttle is lost.

'NASA watches helplessly as their craft breaks orbit and heads back to Earth where it crashes high up in the Revelation Mountains of Alaska.

'The space agency puts together an emergency recovery team, but the Russians also want the US military photographic data onboard. The race is on to be the first to the crash site, nearly 10,000 feet up in one of the most inhospitable places on Earth. But there is another problem. Satellite images show that something else came down in the shuttle, something moving about when no one should be alive. And that seems to be growing at an alarming rate.

'NASA needs help, and protection. Send in the HAWCs. But even HAWC captain Alex Hunter, the last super-soldier of the Arcadian program, has never come up against a threat so old, and from so far...' (Source: Publisher's blurb)

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y separately published work icon From Hell Greig Beck , Sydney : Momentum Books , 2019 17117835 2019 single work novel science fiction

'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. Figures are moving about in the smoke, hideous shapes, snatching people from the streets, and scans indicate they are being taken into the core of the erupting volcano.

'Hell is rising and Alex Hunter must gather a team of his most battle hardened HAWCs to take on an adversary from the very depths of hell. Nothing will stop him from rescuing Aimee and Joshua, not even the devil itself.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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y separately published work icon The Dark Side Greig Beck , Sydney : Momentum Books , 2021 23417117 2021 single work novel science fiction

'Hundreds of thousands of miles away on the dark side of the moon, the Russian lunar base has self-destructed - all personnel are dead, except one. Olga Sobakin, the lone survivor, seeks refuge at the rival American base.

'Olga tells the Americans her base was attacked by a horrifying and nightmarish creature - the pattern was the same: people vanished, leaving nothing behind but shredded clothing and an unidentifiable waste product. The Americans are skeptical of her story at first, but then people begin to disappear . . .

'Back on Earth, just before the American lunar base goes completely dark, a single message is received: "Lifeform". Intercepted whisperings from Russian intelligence indicate a deadly spreading attack and a rising global threat. Escalated to priority one, there's only one team up for the task.

'Alex Hunter and his elite group of HAWCs are on a rescue mission to the desolate and darkest unknown. Who, or what, awaits them on the dark side?'

Source : publisher's blurb

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y separately published work icon The Well of Hell Greig Beck , Sydney : Momentum Books , 2022 24920341 2022 single work novel thriller horror

'In the forbidden deserts of Yemen, a structure has been found - a buried pyramid - thousands of years older than anything previously known. And indications are, it was buried on purpose.

'What is discovered inside could prove that we're not alone in the universe. And terrifyingly, after 7000 years, there is a biological obscenity that remains, not yet dead.

'Ancient writing suggests the pyramid's builders have been taking humans for reasons that will tear at all sanity, and when evidence is found that in remote corners of the world people are still disappearing, the HAWCs are called to action.

'In a final battle across two worlds - with the fate of the planet at stake - Alex Hunter and his team will be pushed to their very limits as they confront a horrifying and deadly army.

'In The Well of Hell, bestselling author Greig Beck constructs a tale of blood-curdling, Lovecraftian horror - this latest battle for honor, family and the world cements his status as one of the premier action-horror writers today.' (Publication summary)

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y separately published work icon The Silurian Bridge Greig Beck , Sydney : Momentum Books , 2024 28242186 2024 single work novel science fiction

'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, this mission is personal.

'In this strange primordial world, the HAWCs find lifeforms that defy description and test the bounds of reality, or sanity. Things that evolution created and then cancelled. Or perhaps something entirely out of this world, that time wisely kept hidden from us. Until now.

'Alex Hunter, The Arcadian, is in a race to save his team, his country, and the people he loves the most, his family, and literally bring them back from the dead. And pity anyone or any thing that gets in his way.' (Publication summary)

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First known date: 2009
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