When a plane crashes into the Antarctic ice, exposing an enormous cave system, a rescue and research team is dispatched. Twenty-four hours later, all contact is lost.
Captain Alex Hunter and his highly trained commandos, along with a team of scientists, are fast tracked to the hot zone to find out what went wrong. Meanwhile, the alluring petrobiologist Aimee Weir is sent to follow up on the detection of a vast underground reservoir. If the unidentified substance proves to be oil, every country in the world will want to know about it-even wage war over it. Or worse.
Once suspended into the caves, Alex, Aimee, and the others can’t locate a single survivor-or even a trace of their remains. Nor is there a energy source, only specters of the dead haunting the tunnels. But soon they will discover that something very much alive is brewing beneath the surface. It is a force that dates back to the very dawn of time-an ancient terror that hunts and kills to survive…
Soldiers we are not alone. Prepare to go hot.
To bring the team out alive, Alex will need every one of his mysterious abilities beneath the dark ice.
WARNING: Contains Strong Language, Violence, and Horror Themes.
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Both eerie and terrifying – there’s something moving under the ice. Something from the very dawn of time, something that hunts and kills, something Alex Hunter and his team must escape to survive.
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What the critics are saying about Beneath the Dark Ice:
BUCKLE UP… This is going to be a hell of a ride!
Beneath the Dark Ice – What lies beneath: The pace never lets up as you’re hurled from one cavern to another with just the raspy breathing of a millenniums-old creature for company – It’s like he’s taken the imagination of Jules Verne, put it into a blender with a healthy dollop of Crichton, and folded in a teaspoon of Stephen King. The result? One heck of a ride.
A nerve-shredding adventure that skilfully blends thriller, horror and fantasy.
Quickly paced, imaginatively detailed, and highly atmospheric, Beck’s novel is an entertaining mix of thriller, horror, fantasy, and science fiction.
Beneath the Dark Ice has all the ingredients of a late night page-turner: a remote and dangerous setting, a rugged hero with an Achilles heel, a vicious and deadly villain, geopolitical intrigue and cutting-edge science. Throw in a feisty heroine and a band of elite soldiers, put them in the ruins of an ancient civilization and pit them against a mythological creature, and it’s a recipe for compulsive reading.
A fast paced, fun and fantastic debut from a great new talent. Perfect escapism.
In a word: GRIPPING.
An exciting read! A successful mix of spy thriller, psychological drama, and scientific primeval action novel – with just a touch of the Jules Verne.
Dunkles Eis – GERMAN REVIEW: Exciting from beginning to end. Rated 4/5 Stars – Lesevergnügen (Reading Pleasure).
ITALIAN REVIEW: From adventure Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne horror of the thing campbelliana memory (filtered by the vision of John Carpenter): all literary genres within these coordinates can be identified in the novel. The Australian Greig Beck, his literary debut, takes the reader on an exciting adventure above and below the ice of Antarctica, the idea of giving a lot of fun doing it! It is a breath of fresh air to find some ‘golden age of sci-fi sound – no frills and various cerebral mechanism – merged with the adventure and action, not forgetting the horror and spy-story. A vitamin mix for a novel drink in one gulp.
