Exciting action adventure thrillers involving lost civilizations
Discover thrilling action-adventure books featuring lost civilizations! Dive into heart-pounding tales of ancient mysteries, daring explorers, and hidden treasures in these must-read thrillers.
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Deep Fathom
by James Rollins
Ex-Navy SEAL Jack Kirkland surfaces from an aborted underwater salvage mission to find the Earth burning. Solar flares have triggered a series of gargantuan natural disasters. Earthquakes and hellfire rock the globe. Air Force One has vanished from the skies with America's president on board. Now, with the U.S. on the narrow brink of a nuclear apocalypse, Kirkland must pilot his oceangoing exploration ship, Deep Fathom, on a desperate mission miles below the ocean's surface. There devastating secrets await him—and a power an ancient civilization could not contain has been cast out into modern day. And it will forever alter a world that's already racing toward its own destruction.
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The Descent
by Jeff Long
We are not alone…In a cave in the Himalayas, a guide discovers a self-mutilated body with the warning--Satan exists. In the Kalahari Desert, a nun unearths evidence of a proto-human species and a deity called Older-than-Old. In Bosnia, something has been feeding upon the dead in a mass grave. So begins mankind’s most shocking realization: that the underworld is a vast geological labyrinth populated by another race of beings. Some call them devils or demons. But they are real. They are down there. And they are waiting for us to find them…
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Valhalla Rising
by Clive Cussler
Dirk Pitt races to rescue passengers from a cruise ship and to investigate, but he has no idea of the bizarre chain of events that are about to engulf him.
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Thunderhead
by Douglas Preston
Nora Kelly, a young archaeologist in Santa Fe, receives a letter written sixteen years ago, yet mysteriously mailed only recently. In it her father, long believed dead, hints at a fantastic discovery that will make him famous and rich---the lost city of an ancient civilization that suddenly vanished a thousand years ago. Now Nora is leading an expedition into a harsh, remote corner of Utah's canyon country. Searching for her father and his glory, Nora begins t unravel the greatest riddle of American archeology. but what she unearths will be the newest of horrors...
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Dourado
by David Wood
On January 25, 1829, the Portuguese brig Dourado sank off Indonesia with its cargo of treasures from the Holy Land. When her father is mysteriously murdered while searching for the Dourado, Kaylin Maxwell hires Dane Maddock and his partner to locate the brig and a lost Biblical artifact which could shake the foundations of the Church.
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Secret of the Sands
by Rai Aren
A surprising adventure exploring the mysterious origins of Ancient Egypt and its enigmatic monuments, uncovering long-buried truths and a powerful secret that is as dangerous as it is awe-inspiring...
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