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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?
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a cataclysmic event
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…
an ancient prophecy
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.
a race against darkness
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?
“Breakneck pace!” —Good Reading (4 stars)
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I love Beck's action scenes, and this, like his previous work, are movies waiting to happen. I also like his characters - Alex Hunter himself is both heroic and complex - his powers are still growing in ways that not even his own commanding officer is entirely comfortable with and this adds an extra element of complexity to an already engaging character. Greig Beck also gives us strong female characters - in this book he has Captain Adira Senesh, a MOSAD agent assisting them in the Middle east, who proves more than a match for Hunter's HAWCs. But my favorites are his creatures - the descriptions of the `thing' that emerges from that other dimension are particularly effective, creating sight and sound images of the creature that gave me sleepless nights.''
Dark Rising is a lot of fun, and Beck proves he has a strong grasp of the action genre. His work is exciting, fast-paced and cinematic in feel.
The Iranian's in Return of The Prophet stumble on more than nuclear fission. They manage to create an event that opens a channel through to another dimension, a doorway that allows things that shouldn't exist to come to our world, and a means for an already fanatical prime minister to hasten the end of the world as foretold in the Koran. Alex Hunter and his crack team of HAWC special forces, armed with the type of advanced military materiel that would make James Bond's `Q' green with envy, are dispatched to take out the threat. The action is beautifully choreographed, and the characters are well rounded - in particular Alex Hunter himself. Hunter's powers are still growing in ways that not even his own commanding officer is entirely comfortable with and this adds an extra element of complexity to an already engaging character. Beck continues to provide strong female characters in this second Alex Hunter outing with MOSAD captain Adira who is more than a match for Hunter's HAWCs. And he's not bad at monsters either. The descriptions of the `thing' that emerges from that other dimension are particularly effective, creating visual and auditory images of the creature that will stay with me for a long time.
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