The race for profit is matched by an intellectual investigation into the nature of the newly revealed Satan. The Descent By Jeff Long Read by Boyd Gaines Abridged Audio Download LIST PRICE 14.95 PRICE MAY VARY BY RETAILER See More Retailers Get a FREE audiobook by joining our mailing list today Plus, receive recommendations and exclusive offers on all of your favorite books and authors from Simon & Schuster. Big business takes one look at the chasm and sees only the profits from the undiscovered mineral and oil desposits. The world's armies respond to the threat and are slaughtered in the dark. A global labyrinth of underground tunnels and caves, miles below the surface inhabited by immensely strong, savage devil-like creatures. We are on the verge of discovering a new frontier. In Bosnia, an American Air Cavalry patrol investigates a disturbance at a mass grave site and its commander catches a fleeting glimpse of a creature straight out of a medieval morality play.
Before they can investigate the mystery all except the guide are ritually massacred. One thing is certain: Miles inside the earth, evil is very much alive.In a remote Himalayan cave a group of New Age tourists led by a cynical American guide come across the mummified corpse of an RAF flyer. But in the dark underground, as humanity falls away from them, the scientists and mercenaries find themselves prey not only to the savage creatures, but also to their own treachery, mutiny, and greed. From the Himalayas to Bosnia, to the bed of the Pacific, this novel is a headlong rush into the depths of greed, a foolish quest for forbidden knowledge. A scientific expedition is launched westward to explore beneath the Pacific Ocean floor, both to catalog the riches there and to learn how life could develop in the sunless abyss. He has also worked as a stonemason, journalist, historian, screenwriter, and elections supervisor for Bosnias first democratic election. in a newly excavated Java temple, Longs characters find out to their terror that. Nations, armies, religions, and industries rush to colonize and exploit the subterranean frontier. : Descent, the (9780609602935) : Jeff Long : Books. With all of Hell's precious resources and territories to be won, a global race ensues. So begins mankind’s most shocking realization: the underworld is a vast geological labyrinth populated by another race of beings. In Bosnia, something has been feeding upon the dead in a mass grave.
In the Kalahari Desert, a nun unearths evidence of a proto-human species and a deity called Older-than-Old. In a cave in the Himalayas, a guide discovers a self-mutilated body with a warning: Satan exists.
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