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Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon have undergone many hair-raising adventures before - but never one quite like this. Jungles come in many forms. There are the steamy rain forests of the Burmese highlands. There are the lies and betrayals of the world of covert operations. And there are the dark and twisted thoughts of a man bent on near-global domination. To pull off their latest mission, Cabrillo and his remarkable men and women must survive them all.

Years before his political career took off, Othman Wok pioneered the writing of ghost stories and horror fiction in Singapore and Malaysia.

Kurt Austin and his crew are back to slake their thirst for action as they attempt to drown an eco-extortionist's plan to control the world's freshwater supply. From deep within the Venezuelan rain forest emanates the legend of a white goddess and a mysterious tribe with startling technical accomplishments. Few believe the tribe exists, and even fewer suspect its deity can change the course of history.

Two years ago, Dr. Gina Brady broke Thomas Prescott’s heart, but now her panic-stricken satellite phone call starts it beating again with a fury. Thugs kidnapped the good doctor from the remote jungle village where she was working, and now the retired homicide detective’s expert skills are desperately needed to save her. Led by a colorful, but perhaps untrustworthy local guide, Prescott journeys deep into the Bolivian Amazon, plunging into a world where the only thing more dangerous than the gun-toting drug traffickers and the ruthless tribesmen, is the jungle itself.

The black Dust fell for over a week. Adam Blake, a seasoned survival expert, was trapped in his first floor flat in a small suburb of southeast London—no food, no cell service, and no communication with the outside world. Then the dust stopped falling, As the residents of Buckingham Avenue were left bewildered, there was no sign of help, no emergency services, no police. Just Adam and his confused neighbors. The storm was just as sudden—violent, coming out of nowhere. It was as if the town was cursed. Then came the vines.

During a business trip to Uruguay, Nathan Reed’s commercial airline is caught in a powerful storm over the Amazon jungle. The plane crashes somewhere along the Brazilian-Peruvian border, leaving a handful of survivors stranded in the rainforest. They race to find potable water, medical supplies, and safe shelter. Their fight for survival intensifies when they are targeted by a mysterious group of uncontacted people in the Amazon.

Written in 1954, this controversial story cracked down on the public school system and dramatized student violence as no other novel of its time did. Hunter used his own teaching experience to create protagonist Richard Dadier, who lands his first real job as an English teacher at North Manual Trades High School in New York City. Dadier knows the students here will be tough, but nothing has prepared him for the world he enters.

A young Marine finds high adventure and higher peril in the jungles of Borneo during World War II. Sent to disrupt Japanese operations on the island, Lieutenant Rob Parker must contend with the hostility of the deep jungle while building an uneasy alliance with a band of vigilant natives. Together, Parker and his multinational platoon of soldiers, tribesmen, and mercenaries wage a guerrilla campaign against the occupying forces and ultimately, wrestle with the chaos and tragedy of war.

Ki-Gor, son of the jungle! Orphaned son of missionary Robert Kilgour, raised in the jungle, he grew to a six-foot bronzed-skin giant who ruled the jungles. Joined by Helen Vaughn, his fiance and later wife, Timbo George, the Masai chief, and N'Geeso, the chief of a Pygmy tribe, this band of adventurers roam the wilds of Africa in a series of pulp magazine stories that began in 1939 and ended with the last published story in 1954. Now, Ki-Gor is back as an audiobook.

ATLANTICA, the forgotten isle, the glittering gem in the cesspool of humanity's future. Anything you do inside your own home is allowed. But what if you live in the jungle? It's time. Santana's benefactor, Taylor Yungheim, has located the man who stole Valentina's brother, Archie Fontana. Santana prepares to enter the jungle with Val, only to find herself mixed up once again with Dick Chambers and Terra Kris. Forming an unlikely alliance, they venture into the unknown.

William J. Harper was one of many who had their lives ripped apart when the bombs were dropped. A happy family man, William is torn from the life he loves by the demands of war. Flanked by his platoon, William embarks on a mission into the heart of the jungle to retrieve a beacon that could lead the enemy straight to them. Yet, what they find instead unleashes an unworldly entity torn straight from their nightmares. Can the band of soldiers reverse what’s been done? Or will the consequences of their actions be fatal?

Be predator or prey. A psychological thriller. Eccentric British scientist Rowena Aldus is in dire straits, about to be thrown out of Venezuela after spending years in the Amazon jungle studying a spider venom that promises to cure ED. Then she meets American angel investor Guy Westerphal and all her dreams suddenly come true, including falling in love for the first time. When Guy vanishes one day and Rowena is arrested on charges of illegally experimenting on an indigenous tribe, she flees over the border to Colombia, where she later discovers the truth behind Guy's disappearance.

In this pulse-pounding thriller from the author of the 'haunting, twisting thrill-ride' (Megan Miranda, New York Times best-selling author) The River at Night, a young woman leaves behind everything she knows to take on the jungle of Bolivia, but her excursion abroad quickly turns into a fight for her life. Nineteen-year-old Lily Bushwold thought she’d found the antidote to endless foster care and group homes: a teaching job in Cochabamba, Bolivia. As soon as she could steal enough cash for the plane, she was on it.

The story of how I, Julian Carter, and my precious two-year old son, Stephen, left Atlanta Georgia and found ourselves on a white sailboat, tossed about like a cork on a raging sea off of Australia's northern tip in 1963, is harrowing. But it pales in comparison to what happened deep in the jungle where I was taken as a slave by a savage tribe unknown to the world. Some places dwell in darkness so deep that even God seems to stay away.

Sur les rivages de la mer de Chine méridionale, le sultanat de Brunei, petit pays d’or (noir) et de jungle, mène, dans un décor des Mille et Une Nuits, une existence prospère et en apparence paisible. Pourtant, un coup d’État d’un nouveau type va s’y dérouler et le livrer "clefs en main" à une grande entreprise californienne du numérique. Flora est la petite-fille d’un célèbre mercenaire qui a passé sa vie à renverser des pouvoirs établis. Fascinée par son exemple, elle s’engage dans le milieu dangereux des agences de sécurité privées. Elle se retrouve plongée au cœur de cette opération de subversion sans précédent.

Long before Prefect Marcus Venandus directed the defense of the Jeweled Hills, Green Vigil Marcus led his first command into the treacherous jungles of Ekángá. As if the jungle itself wasn’t deadly enough, native warriors and shamans strike from its shadows with magic, spears, and darts, while the forcibly transplanted Graeci population seethes with unrest in the supposedly civilized regions of the province.

There's an evil on the loose in 'Shady Acres.' Nylah Diamond gets her first case—William Blake. She's obsessed with learning everything, it intrigues her—why won't Billy speak, and what happened to him and his brother Bobby? She needs to study every detail and statement, all the evidence and everyone involved. Something does not make sense. Someone else prefers it left in the past. She's determined to help Dr. Hans Simpson and Professor Mary Flannigan piece together everything buried for so long—facts meant to stay obscured. Some events from childhood? They stick with you forever.

Stan Mullens is an American mercenary in the Congo who sees himself as a good guy with a bad job. Stan's self-assigned mission to protect his long time brother-in-arms, Frank, takes a serious hit when their boss sends them on an unsupported mission into the jungle to track and kill Tonde Chiora, a former company employee accused of stealing vital company mining technology. As their mission takes them deep into the violent heart of the Congo, Stan soon discovers that his victim hasn't done anything to warrant being murdered.

At 31, Pittsburgh attorney Whitehill rarely has been required to make a decision more stressful than which Brooks Brothers suit to wear to the office. Yet all that changes when a vacation to South America leaves him stranded in the depths of the Amazon jungle. There, he finds himself at the mercy of an opportunistic scientist whose motives are murky at best…and deadly at worst.

In New York City, there is a world filled with illusion, beauty, and glamour that awakens when the sun goes down. The champagne flows, the music pulses, and the beautiful people gather to shut out the real world. A collection of the most renowned in the entire world, New York’s nightclubs come alive when the clock strikes midnight. But with privilege comes consequence, and an unspeakable evil is threatening to cast a dark shadow over the beautiful lights of this elite playground.