Results for "Extinction" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

In a lonely valley, deep in the mountains, a ranger watches over the last surviving grizzly bear. With the natural world exhausted and in tatters, Ben has dedicated himself to protecting this single fragment of the wild. One night, he hears voices in the valley—poachers, come to hunt his bear. A heart-pounding chase begins, crossing forests and mountainsides, passing centuries of human ruins. Sometimes hunter, sometimes prey—Ben must choose the bear’s fate and his own.

Mandera, im Nordosten Kenias: Die X1-Mandera-Pandemie breitet sich wie ein Flächenbrand aus - und ist kein biologisch-evolutionärer Zufall. Berlin: Ein Mann erwacht in seinem Zimmer im Concord Hotel und hat das Gedächtnis verloren. Mit ihm im Raum befinden sich die Leiche eines ihm unbekannten Mannes sowie ein Zettel mit einem seltsamen Code darauf. Atlanta: Die Ärztin Peyton Shaw wird von den kenianischen Behörden kontaktiert, um sich der mysteriösen Seuche anzunehmen. Sie findet heraus, dass ein ganzes Kartell geheimnisvoller Firmen, Institutionen und Organisationen die Pandemie mit einer finsteren Absicht steuert.

Extreme weather conditions are wreaking havoc on the world, and baffled scientists are unable to discover the cause. The most powerful hurricane in history approaches New York, while at the same time atmospheric rivers flood Las Vegas. Wildfires spread through Canada, and Europe is wracked by powerful earthquakes. Most bizarre of all: a tempestuous mass of dark, foreboding sky seems to be spreading across the globe. In Arizona, an astronomer tries to decipher the hidden message inside a thirteen-thousand-year-old megalithic stone, which just might hold the key to everything.

Nile Nightingale is on the run. Fleeing across the border to rural Quebec, he seeks refuge at an abandoned church when his junked-up, overstimulated mind takes in that he has just witnessed a body drop - in a bloody sack tied with Christmas ribbon. The contents, unconscious but still alive, turn out to be 15-year-old Cleste Jonqures, who has been beaten and slashed, like wild game, to slowly bleed out. From his hideout, as he nurses his patient back from the brink and begins to face his own life, he pieces together what he has stumbled into.

Jason Conrad, a man with the wealth of Bill Gates, decides to preserve for posterity the seeds of as many animal and plant species as possible in a vast and remote underground facility, taking the world's legitimate seed banks and "frozen zoos" to a whole new level. Conrad's secret doomsday complex, though, is staffed by a combination of environmental experts and mercenaries who will stop at nothing to achieve their once-noble ambitions.

A remote military research station sends out a frantic distress call, ending with a chilling final command: Kill us all! Personnel from the neighboring base rush in to discover everyone already dead - and not just the scientists, but every living thing for 50 square miles is annihilated: every animal, plant, and insect, even bacteria. The land is entirely sterile - and the blight is spreading. To halt the inevitable, Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma must unravel a threat that rises out of the distant past.

A best-selling author is preparing to write his latest book, this time about “the realities of human extinction”. In the process of doing research for his book, he is contacted out of the blue by a fan, who agrees to hand over several secret files on a secret organization he had been a part of. This organization's sole purpose is to speed up the process of human extinction through the use of scientific means, with the goal of establishing a new world order.