Immortal
A gripping, high-concept, high-octane thriller
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3.9 • 136 Ratings
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- £4.99
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Publisher Description
'Get the cameras rolling - Indiana Jones meets Alien. What a combination of mystery, suspense, and unspeakable horror. I loved it!' R.L. Stine
While carrying out an autopsy on a body recently brought into a morgue in Santa Fe, county coroner Alexis Cruz makes a surprising discovery. Lodged in the dead man's femur is a musket ball which, carbon-dating reveals, was fired some 200 years earlier in the American Civil War.
But before she can notify the authorities, Alexis disappears.
The DIA call in Ethan Warner and his partner, Nicola Lopez, to find the missing coroner. But the closer they come to unlocking the terrifying truth, the nearer they unknowingly bring a warped and dangerous individual to achieving a catastrophic goal.
'Earth-shattering intrigue, hyperdrive action and a desperate race to save humanity, cranked up to the max with scarily realistic science and apocalyptic religion thrown in for good measure . . . a major new talent has hit the mystery thriller scene' Scott Mariani, bestselling author of The Lost Relic
'The fossilised remains of a 7,000-year-old creature dug from the sands of the Negev Desert in Israel become the bones of contention in Dean Crawford's fast-paced debut thriller... The book neatly threads together a wild variety of plotlines' Wall Street Journal
`Partly mythical read, part thriller this pacy tale is a page turner guaranteed to keep you up late' Sun
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
British author Crawford's second speculative thriller featuring Ethan Warner, with its cleverly introduced premise, improves on his debut, 2011's Covenant. When New Mexico police respond to a report of a shooting on the Santa Fe Trail, they find the gunman, Hiram Conley, dressed in a ragged Civil War era Union uniform and armed with a musket. Conley's wounded victim, Tyler Willis, cries, "Don't kill him! He's too old to die," just before the police shoot Conley in self-defense. The autopsy bears out Willis's cryptic assessment. The body has mummified overnight and bears other traces indicating that Conley was born long before his claimed birth year of 1940. After the corpse and the ME who studied it disappear, the matter comes to the attention of Warner and his partner, Nicola Lopez, bail bondsmen recruited by the Defense Intelligence Agency to investigate. Assured pacing and plotting make up for underdeveloped characters.
Customer Reviews
Brill book
Once I picked it up couldn't put it down
Immortal by Dean Crawford
Immortal had me hooked from the very first page. The plot is intriguing and the characters are not only believable, but they have you rooting for the victims the old soldiers as the story unfolds.
Ethan & Lopez are the 2 detectives/PI's - their working relationship is many things within the story, intense, funny & serious in places as it swings between professional & personal feelings between these 2 main characters.
I would class this book as a thriller and for me a good thriller has to have a villain somewhere and Jeb Oppenheimer fits the bill nicely - an elderly rich man with a dark agenda and selfish motives who does not care who he hurts as long as he gets what he wants - money no object!
I would recommend this book to anyone who likes the twists & turns a suspense thriller has and this book never ever fails to keep you guessing from chapter to chapter.
It was a book I didn't want to put down and I look forward to reading more books by Dean Crawford.
Gripping & topical
Really enjoyed reading this book. It's topical theme struck a chord and the story itself was well-constructed and well-researched. There's just enough truth & science to draw you in and the story-telling carries you swiftly along.
I certainly made time to read this book, as opposed to just reading bits as & when I got chance, which is the mark of a very good book in my world.