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Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent hundred-thousand acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, offers guests the experience of viewing woolly mammoths, Irish Elk, and giant ground sloths in their native habitat, brought back from extinction through the magic of genetic manipulation. When a billionaire's son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered in the Erebus back country by what is assumed to be a gang of eco-terrorists, Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Frances Cash partners with county sheriff James Colcord to track down the perpetrators.

Nile Nightingale is on the run. Fleeing across the border to rural Quebec, he seeks refuge at an abandoned church when his junked-up, overstimulated mind takes in that he has just witnessed a body drop - in a bloody sack tied with Christmas ribbon. The contents, unconscious but still alive, turn out to be 15-year-old Cleste Jonqures, who has been beaten and slashed, like wild game, to slowly bleed out. From his hideout, as he nurses his patient back from the brink and begins to face his own life, he pieces together what he has stumbled into.

Sie haben etwas Böses erweckt. Und nun wird es sie jagen... Im Thriller Extinction trifft Relic auf Jurassic Park – Bestseller-Autor Douglas Preston sorgt für filmreifen Nervenkitzel der Extraklasse! Tief in den Rocky Mountains liegt das gigantische Ferienresort Erebus. Dank modernster Gentechnik können die betuchten Gäste wie vor Jahrtausenden wollige Mammuts, gewaltige Riesenhirsche und meterhohe Riesenfaultiere in ihrem natürlichen Habitat erleben. Als ein Millionärssohn und seine Frau entführt und im Hinterland tot aufgefunden werden, gerät eine Gruppe von gewaltbereiten Öko-Terroristen in Verdacht.