Long, Jeff

Archaeologist Nathan Lee Swift has always respected the ruins he has explored and never crossed the line between noble discovery and the plundering of ruins, until one night when he gives in to his professor's greed and becomes a common grave robber, but when a wealthy collector opens a vial of blood dating back to the first century, releasing a plague which threatens to destroy humanity, Nathan finds a chance for redemption.

Ten years ago, doomed explorers exterminated the merciless leader of a group of subterranean beings, releasing the earth from the terror inflicted from within the nightmare of tunnels and rivers deep below its surface. Linguist Ali von Schade is the only survivior of an expedition that seemingly obliterated this primodial underworld. But now, ferocious beings are stealing children and it is clear that Satan is not dead, and that Ali is the only one who can stop him. "A nail-biting thriller..." Sequel to The Descent.

What if hell really existed? The premise of The Descent is just that. We first meet the protagonist of the story, Ike Crockett, as he guides a group of tourists on a Tibetan walkabout. Trapped on a mountain during a blizzard, Ike leads the group into a cave that just happens to be a gateway to hell. More hellish evidence soon emerges at sites as far-flung as Bosnia and the Kalahari Desert.

Twenty-three-year-old photojournalist Molly Drake arrives in Cambodia to cover the U.S. military search for the remains of an American pilot shot down during the Vietnam War, but the search is soon forgotten in the face of a deadly typhoon and the discovery of an ancient city where more than thirty GIs disappeared during the war.