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2012¿Es real la profecía maya del Apocalipsis? Desde hace dos mil años el calendario maya ha profetizado el fin de la humanidad en una fecha que corresponde al 21 de diciembre de 2012. Al aproximarse ese día, la codicia, la corrupción, el colapso económico y la violencia parecen dirigir a nuestra especie al presagiado desastre. Pero otra amenaza apocalíptica se cierne sobre nuestro futuro inmediato, una advertencia muy real que puede acabar no sólo con la humanidad, sino con el planeta entero.  El tercer libro de la saga de Steve Alten sobre la profecía maya es una montaña rusa apocalíptica de aventuras que sigue a Immanuel Gabriel, el héroe gemelo superviviente descrito en el Popol Vuh, hasta el fin del mundo y hacia un dramático encuentro con su difunto abuelo, el arqueólogo Julius Gabriel. En el proceso, Julius revela todo lo que los mayas sabían y temían: desde los secretos mismos de la Creación que antecede al Big Bang, hasta la existencia de extraterrestres que han venido a la Tierra para salvar a nuestra especie. El universo no es lo que parece, como tampoco lo es la existencia humana, y ese reloj en marcha que comienza en la concepción y termina con nuestro último aliento, no es ni el fin ni el principio, sino una compleja farsa diseñada para ponernos a prueba. Y el reloj ya está en marcha...

In this fifth installment of Steve Alten''s New York Times bestselling MEG series--the basis for the feature film The Meg, starring Jason Statham as Jonas Taylor--Nighstalkers picks up where MEG: Hell''s Aquarium left off. Bela and Lizzy, the dominant Megalodon siblings from Angel''s brood, have escaped the Tanaka Institute to roam the Salish Sea in British Columbia. While Jonas Taylor and his friend Mac attempt to either recapture or kill the "sisters," Jonas''s son, David, embarks on his own adventure, motivated by revenge. Having witnessed his girlfriend''s gruesome death, David has joined a Dubai Prince''s ocean expedition, tracking the 120-foot, hundred-ton Liopleurodon that escaped from the Panthalassa Sea. Haunted by night terrors, David repeatedly risks his life to lure the Lio and other prehistoric sea creatures into the fleet''s nets, while battling his own suicidal demons.Steve Alten weaves these storylines together in a page-turning thriller that culminates in a final showdown between the most dangerous predators ever to inhabit the planet.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

East Antarctica: The coldest, most desolate location on Earth. Two-and-a-half miles below the ice cap is Vostok, a six thousand square mile liquid lake, over a thousand feet deep, left untouched for more than fifteen million years. Now, marine biologist Zachary Wallace and two other scientists aboard a submersible tethered to a laser will journey 13,000 feet beneath the ice into this unexplored realm to discover Mesozoic life forms long believed extinct--and an object of immense power responsible for the evolution of modern man.In this sequel to The Loch and prequel to MEG: Nightstalkers, New York Times bestselling author Steve Alten offers readers a crossover novel that combines characters from two of his most popular series.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

2020-2025

En los cinco años que duró la Gran Mortandad murieron millones de personas.

Durante ese periodo, cuando el mundo se convirtió en un lugar salvaje, escenario de una lucha a muerte por cualquier alimento, el joven Robert perdió a sus padres, asesinados en su propia casa. Desde entonces, ha sobrevivido solo, aislado.

El tiempo pasa y el gobierno aspira a restablecer la ley. Pretende crear un nuevo orden basado en el consumo racional de energía limpia. Las autoridades reclaman a Robert porque en su día participó en un proyecto revolucionario para obtener energía de la Luna. Ahora la necesitan para una misión en la Antártida, el único lugar con condiciones similares a las de una de las lunas de Júpiter: Europa. 

On 21 December 2012 the ancient Mayan calendar will complete its thirteenth cycle. Archaeologist Julius Gabriel dies certain of one fact: that, on this date, the human race will cease to exist.Mankind''s salvation lies in a millennia-old code. Ancient legacies - from the pyramids of Mexico and Egypt to the Nazca desert drawings - are key to preventing the imminent global holocaust. Only Julius''s son, Michael Gabriel, can decipher this puzzle. Michael is incapable of action, locked in an asylum where he has been wrongly incarcerated for the past eleven years. But now he has been assigned a new psychiatrist, Dominique Vazquez, upon whose actions the fate of the world will soon rest.

It is 2047: fourteen years since Jacob Gabriel descended into the Mayan netherworld, while his twin brother turned from their chosen path, opting to remain behind.Immanuel Gabriel - still running from the forces that hunt his bloodline - believes his actions proved his role in the Mayan prophecy to be nothing but an ancient myth. Now, though, he will realize his mistake.As the prophecy begins to repeat itself and mankind once again faces annihilation, Immanuel learns there was only ever one person with the power to end the cycle of destruction: himself.

From the bestselling author of the MEG series comes an action packed trilogy that takes place during the four-year gap between Meg (book 1) and The Trench (book 2). While the stories focus on Angel, the Megalodon pup that was captured at the end of book one, in Survival, Steve Alten delves into the major characters and the challenges they faced in being caretakers of the apex predator of all time.

In MEG: Generations, Steve Alten New York Times bestselling author continues his terrifying series.MEG: GENERATIONS opens where MEG: NIGHTSTALKERS left off. The Liopleurodon offspring has been moved to a holding tank aboard the Dubai-Land transport ship, Tonga for its journey to the Middle East. While the Crown Prince’s investors gawk at the creature, below deck in the tanker’s hold, another captured beast is awakened from its drug-induced state and goes on a rampage. The vessel sinks, the Lio escapesAt the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

MEG: A Novel of Deep Terror is the book that launched New York Times bestselling author Steve Alten''s franchise and inspired an international blockbuster starring Jason Statham.Seven years ago and seven miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, Dr. Jonas Taylor encountered something that changed the course of his life. Once a Navy deep-sea submersible pilot, now a marine paleontologist, Taylor is convinced that a remnant population of Carcharodon megalodon—prehistoric sharks growing up to 70 feet long, that subsisted on whales—lurks at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. Offered the opportunity to return to those crushing depths in search of the Megs, Taylor leaps at the chance...but his quest for scientific knowledge (and personal vindication) becomes a desperate fight for survival, when the most vicious predator the earth has ever known is freed to once again hunt the surface.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

New York Times bestselling author Steve Alten''s Meg: Hell''s Aquarium continues his thrilling action adventure series--the basis for the feature film The Meg, starring Jason Statham as Jonas Taylor.The most fearsome predators in history…are no longer history.The Philippine Sea Plate: The most unexplored realm on the planet. Hidden beneath its primordial crust lies the remains of the Panthalassa, an ocean that dates back 220 million years. Vast and isolated, the Panthalassa is inhabited by nightmarish sea creatures long believed extinct.Tanaka Institute, Monterey, CA: Four years have passed since Angel, the 76-foot, 100,000 pound Megalodon, birthed a litter of pups far too numerous and aggressive to keep in one pen. Fortunately, a Dubai royal prince who is building the largest aquarium in the world seeks to purchase two of the "runts"—if Jonas Taylor''s twenty-one year-old son, David, will be their handler. Jonas reluctantly agrees, and David is off to Dubai for the summer of his life, not realizing that he is being set up to lead an expedition that will hunt down and capture the most dangerous creatures ever to inhabit the Earth!At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

New York Times bestselling author Steve Alten''s Meg: Primal Waters continues his thrilling action adventure series--the basis for the feature film The Meg, starring Jason Statham as Jonas Taylor.Eighteen years have passed since Angel, the Megalodon shark broke free of the Tanaka Lagoon and returned to the Mariana Trench. Meanwhile, Jonas Taylor-adventurer, has become Jonas Taylor, middle-aged father of two, overwhelmed by mountains of bills and the daily strife of raising a family. But life is about to change.A Hollywood television producer wants Jonah to join his new survival series: Daredevils. For the next six weeks, two teams of crazy daredevils on a South Pacific Ocean voyage on-board a replica of a Spanish Galleon will try to outperform one another in front of the cameras.Jonas needs the money, and the job seems easy enough-doing color commentary. But behind the scenes, someone else is pulling the strings. And before it''s over, Jonas, Terry, and Mac will again come face to face with the most dangerous creatures ever to stalk the Earth.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Philippine Sea Plate is the deepest, most unexplored realm on the planet. Hidden beneath its ancient crust lies the remains of the Panthalassa, an ocean that dates back 220 million years. Vast and isolated, the Panthalassa is inhabited by nightmarish species of sea creatures long believed extinct.

Tanaka Institute, Monterey, CA:

Angel, the recaptured seventy-six-foot, one-hundred-thousand-pound Megalodon, has birthed a litter of pups—five females—far too numerous and aggressive to keep in one pen. One solution: a Dubai royal prince is building the largest aquarium in the world and seeks to purchase two of the “runts.”

The deal hinges on hiring Jonas Taylor’s twenty-one-year-old son, David, to be their trainer. Jonas reluctantly agrees, and David is off to Dubai for the summer of his life—not realizing he is being set up to lead an expedition that will hunt down and capture the most dangerous creatures ever to inhabit the planet.

Dante’s Inferno, his depiction of hell, was written while Europe was suffering through war, famine, the corruption of the Church, and the evils of the pogrom—the brutal massacre of countless Jews. Shortly after Dante’s passing, the black plague killed off half the world’s population, an end-of-days-like event that birthed a legend depicted in paintings and dance: the Grim Reaper.

What few people know is that Dante’s poem draws inspiration from the Zohar, an ancient text that warns that the true end of days will be brought on by the corruption of man after events on the twenty-third day of Elul—a date equating to September 11th, 2001.

One person that does know is Mary Klipot, a biohazard level-four scientist. She sees historical parallels between the lack of morality that corrupted Europe preceding the black death and the present-day greed that has mired our own society in economic collapse and seemingly endless wars. And she sees an opportunity to carry out God’s work. She injects herself with Scythe, a swift-acting version of the black death, and diligently spreads the infection throughout Manhattan. The threat of a worldwide pandemic forces officials to seal off the island at a time when world leaders have gathered at the UN.

One-armed and shell-shocked Iraq vet Patrick Shepherd may be able to stop her. But first he’ll have to find his family somewhere in the plague-ravaged city, and outrun the Grim Reaper himself.

Meticulously researched and written in a voice reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy, End of Days is the first book in a planned series best described as The Stand meets Dante’s Inferno.