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In a remote Himalayan cave a group of tourists led by an American guide find the mummified corpse of an RAF flyer. Before they can investigate, all except the guide are massacred. In Bosnia, a patrol investigates a disturbance at a mass grave site and catches a fleeting glimpse of a creature straight out of a medieval morality play.
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The Descent
July 1, 1999, Audioworks
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0671045687 9780671045685
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"In the beginning was the word."
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In a cave in the Himalayas, a guide discovers a self-mutilated body with a 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: the underworld is a vast geological labyrinth populated by another race of beings.
With all of Hell's precious resources and territories to be won, a global race ensues. Nations, armies, religions, and industries rush to colonize and exploit the subterranean frontier. A scientific expedition is launched westward to explore beneath the Pacific Ocean floor, both to catalog the riches there and to learn how life could develop in the sunless abyss. But in the dark underground, as humanity falls away from them, the scientists and mercenaries find themselves prey not only to the savage creatures, but also to their own treachery, mutiny, and greed. One thing is certain: Miles inside the earth, evil is very much alive
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