Bøker av Craig Marley

Besides humans, talking dolphins are the only animals that can say..."I love you." They also know right from wrong.

The terrorists had a sinister plan: Kill 10 million Americans and turn Southern California into an uninhabitable nuclear wasteland. Who's going to stop them?

PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Shortly after receiving reports of people dying from a mysterious fungal pathogen in the central highlands of Papua New Guinea, the CDC dispatched their most experienced mycotic expert, Doctor Rachel Hemmingway. Leading a small team of epidemiologists, her primary mission was to determine the source of the outbreak, control the spread of the deadly spores, and develop an effective treatment. With over twenty years of experience as a CDC mycotic investigator, she was confident the deadly outbreak would quickly be contained. She was profoundly mistaken. They called it Lucifer. And it was not from our planet. It had remained in a state of anhydrobiosis for billions of years, trapped in an iron sarcophagus without nutrients or water, unable to metabolize, reproduce, or grow. It had survived an epic journey through space and time, the explosive impact with Earth, and three hundred million years of paralysis.Buried deep within the Papuan highlands, when it was accidentally exhumed by Keystone gold miners, the monsoon rains infiltrated its microscopic pores and it began to rehydrate - atom by atom - cell by cell - until the entire fungal mass burst back to life - and continued its lethal genetic destiny.Once inhaled, dozens of threadlike mycelium tentacles slowly emerged from each deadly spore - undulating in a rhythmic motion - growing longer - searching for its first meal in billions of years. From the mycelium grew the hyphae - smaller filaments that produced digestive exoenzymes ‒ converting human lungs into a nutritious chemical goop to be absorbed by the parasitic fungus.As the fungus grew inside the lungs of its current host, it asexually reproduced with an explosive flowering - ejecting thousands of its spores into the environment. And with the help of the wind, and human carriers, these microscopic spores repeatedly invaded, and quickly killed another human host - and another - and another - and another.By the year 2036, out of eight billion humans on planet Earth, fewer than two billion remained. One hundred and seventy of them struggled to survive within the boundaries of Keystone - an isolated open-pit gold mine in the central highlands of Papua New Guinea. Rachel Hemmingway, and her team of epidemiologists were among them - the last pillars of hope for mankind.This is their story.

Driven by avarice, fossil fuel barons risk everything to claim a share of this hidden treasure.They know drilling holes into our planet is a perilous gamble and that mother nature is the sovereign guardian.If you respect her domain, she may give up her bounty. But if you transgress... there are a thousand ways to die. BLOWOUT tells the story of three of them.

WAIMANALO, OAHU, HAWAII: All that remained of Hawaiian free-diver Tiki Kalani, was his bones. There were numerous theories as to the cause of his death, but in the absence of foul-play, the Kauai medical examiner recorded it as an accidental drowning. A year later, before officially closing the case, the medical examiner provided University of Hawaii, Marine Science Professor, Willow Parker, with a sample of Tiki's remains for further examination. What she discovered was terrifying, While viewing the specimen under her microscope, she was shocked to discover something moving - an organism that had been stored in liquid nitrogen for a year. It was still alive.While she had never seen anything like it, Willow knew it must be one of the known extremophiles - creatures that can remain viable after spending years in sub-zero temperatures, thermal vents, outer space, and radioactive environments - environments that would quickly kill humans. The creature looked like a tardigrade, a tiny bottom feeder with eight short legs often referred to as a "water bear". But, this specimen was different - repulsively different. It was ten times bigger and possessed a mouthful of serrated, razor-sharp teeth.Over the next few weeks, Willow investigated four more deaths believed to have been caused by marine creatures. The DNA didn't lie. It confirmed the deaths were caused by marine creatures - creatures once thought to be harmless to humans. Inexplicably, they had mutated far faster than natural evolution. Mutations that normally took millions of years, were now being completed in ten or twenty years.Her worst fears were confirmed when she completed a DNA genomic sequence of the only ocean-borne insect, the halobate, or water strider. A solitary female lays tens of thousands of eggs on a single, quart-size plastic jar - every month. The mutated water strider species had tripled in size, spouted wings, grown a large proboscis and, like malaria mosquitos, had become an agent for the deadliest flesh-eating bacteria known to man - vibrio vulnificus.After a multitude of tests, Willow discovered the cause of the mutations - horizontal gene transfer from toxic chemicals. The source of the toxicity was obvious - UV photo-decomposition of plastic - billions of tons of plastic.Each of the mutated marine organisms she examined had undergone significant changes in their physical size, anatomy, and predatory capabilities due to toxins released by the photo-decomposition of plastic from sunlight.Willow clandestinely continued her research until she completed a compelling dossier of facts and figures to share with the world - evidence that our oceans were rapidly becoming a breeding ground for countless new species of lethal organisms - one in particular quite capable of killing much of the human race. Now that she had determine the cause of the accelerated mutations, her primary mission was to warn the world of the ominous consequences.The United Nations scoffed at her claims, and refused to consider her powerful report - as did the CDC.Shortly thereafter, two of Willow's collaborators died under suspicious circumstances. Battle of the Extremophiles is her story.There's no place to hide, so pay close attention.The mutations are here - and they're looking for a meal.