Read by Sean Mangan, Beneath the Dark Ice is just under ten hours of listening. Reading was paced well, female vs male voices okay, no problem discerning who-says-what-to-who.A corporate jet crashes through the ice of Antarctica, rescue workers immediately respond and disappear. Mystery lifts off...
I gave this two stars because it was just so very terrible, but it's like a B horror film that's bad in all the best ways. I still had to keep reading it and at the end thought it was pretty fun.Just so awful as far as believability, sheer ridiculousness, baaaaad dialogue, unrealistic characters ...
Alex Hunter, his team, and a couple of Israelis (one an astrophysicist, the other a Mossad agent) head to Iran to investigate what was either a nuclear accident or an artificially-created black hole. Naturally, Beck throws in a beastie-of-the-week, this time an extraterrestrial monstrosity--with ...
Excellent action/advenure. Great pacing and plotting. Of course, the end is not really and end, since this is a series, but it works. My only gripe is the semi-reintroduction of the character Adira Senesh from the previous novel, Dark Rising. She really plays no part in this story but is used sim...
He blinked, his eyes gritty and stinging, but still not focusing properly. His stomach convulsed, and coughing, he emptied about two pints of water from his gut, before he was cast up onto an embankment.“Good, get it all out.” Captain Yang stood over him.Shenjung moaned and rubbed at his eyes, wi...
The fragments of charred flesh recovered from the Golan Heights were now all in sealed jars. But the thing that held their riveted attention was the head of the being Alex had brought with him.It balanced on the stump of its neck, twitching, eyes rolling, and mouth working. Thankfully, the eyes n...
His head throbbed with a dull pain as he pushed his awareness out as far as he could. He could feel something there, but, strangely, it was all around him rather than in one specific location. And it felt like González, but... He focused harder and got the sense of some kind of living essence, bi...
![This Green Hell - [Alex Hunter 03] by Greig Beck](/i/cover.jpg)
The flames were warm and comforting, and as she watched they opened familiar windows into her past, into her memories. Beside her on the rug lay Jess, fully stretched out like an enormous bear-skin rug – one hundred pounds of German shepherd and her last living family member. Settling further int...
From their position, crouching at the base of an old rock fall, they could detect no movement, thermal presence or any sound coming from the cave.Alex went alone to stand in the enormous mouth of the ancient cave. The primitive smell of the tunnel ahead threatened to overwhelm him, and though he ...
Before dawn, hundreds of sellers crossed the Lydian Cilandiras Bridge over the Banaz Stream, to compete for space in the bazaar and for the buyers’ attention. It was still dark, but soon the sun would rise, and the cacophony of hawkers’ voices, haggling traders, and playing children would turn th...