PRIMEVAL - Shadow of the Jaguar

Informationen zum Autor Steven Savile is a highly respected media tie-in writer who was nominated for the International Media Tie-In Writer's SCRIBE Award in 2007 for his novel Slaine: The Exile. He was runner-up in the British Fantasy Awards in 2000! and won the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Award in 2002. He has written extensively for the high profile properties Star Wars! Warhammer (Black Library)! Dr Who and Torchwood as well as his own fiction. Klappentext Primeval sees evolutionary zoologist Nick Cutter make the terrifying discovery that prehistoric creatures are alive and well in the twenty-first century. The natural world is turned on its head and humanity faces extinction as unexplained anomalies rip holes in the fabric of time and allow creatures from the earliest stages of Earth's development to roam the modern world. Set in the rainforests of Peru in this brand new Primeval adventure Cutter, Stephen, Abbie and Connor face a bigger challenge than they could have possibly imagined... A heady mixture of action and adventure, Cutter and his team are forced to confront terrifying creatures from the past and the future with gripping consequences. One The animal’s lonely voice haunted the mountainside. The melancholy sound rolled across the canopy of wet leaves and dripped down the trailing vines, all substance lost long before it reached the brothers’ ears. It did not matter. The rainforest spoke with the tongues of Peruvian devils, a thousand sounds competing for attention, and beneath them a thousand more just as eager to be heard. The place was alive with the constant chittering of insects; the deep-throated rumbles of the yellow-backed toads; the raucous caws of the colourful birds as they preened and strutted on the high branches; the scuttle of tuco-tuco, sloths and opossum through the thick vegetation; the slithering of the lachesis muta through the thick grasses; the soft sussurous of the leaves and the silken rush of the rain falling down between them. Even at dusk, everything was vivid and alive. But night was coming on fast beneath the thick, leafy canopy. It was hot. Unbearably so. The cotton clung to Cam’s flesh. He plucked at it with sticky fingers. There was nothing comfortable about the cloying humidity. He ran his fingers through his hair. They tangled in a greasy knot that he couldn’t tease through. “I’m telling you, Jaime, it was like shards of ice spinning lazily in the air.” Cam shook his head, knowing the words couldn’t come close to describing what he had seen. “Right,” his younger brother said, a wry grin playing over his lips. “Clouds of ice in the middle of the rainforest, and you still say you’ve not been on the whacky baccy?” “Give it a rest, Jaime. I’m serious. It was weird.” “You’re telling me .” Despite his words, Cam could tell Jaime was intrigued. “Did you try and touch one? I mean, what was it like?” It was the obvious thing to ask. It was precisely what he would have asked, if their roles had been reversed. Even so, he didn’t have an answer. Cam peered across the fire at his brother. How could he admit that the strange phenomenon had actually scared him shitless? He played the big tough guy, but the thought of reaching out and actually touching that eerie light sent a chill running the length of his spine. “No,” he admitted, a part of him hoping that would bring an end to Jaime’s questions. He picked up a stick and stirred the fire. The flames had almost guttered out, and they sprang back to life, throwing weird shadows across the small enclave within the trees. It quickly burned low again, its fuel reduced to charcoal. The shadows shrank, becoming hunched and cadaverous as they ghosted across the encroaching foliage. Beyond them lurked thicker clusters of darkness; the stones of the ancient Incan temple they’d discovered. It was a loose term, di...

Product details

• Authors: Steven Savile
• Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.03.2008
• EAN: 9781845766924
• ISBN: 978-1-84576-692-4
• No. of pages: 246
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Primeval
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy