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Following the tragic death of his mother and young bride within hours of each other, Theodore Roosevelt travels to the Dakota Badlands to put the loss behind him and to reinvent himself as a cowboy and adventurer. But T.R.’s foray into the wild comes on the heels of several brutal attacks by an unknown species, forcing the future president to become something he hadn’t planned on: A Sasquatch hunter.

The name’s Jett Turner and my writing about Acuña Cartel head Tito “El Tigre” Calderón has turned my day to day into a circus of the unbelievable. This past week has seen me painted by animal activists, forced to play houseguest to the DEA, have dead guinea pigs thrown at me, and witness a live retelling of Daniel in the Lion’s Den that went wrong for everybody but the lions. Toss in my being haunted by a call girl, pursued by a femme fatale with ulterior motives, a Witch Doctor of a housekeeper, Teddy Ruxpin porn, a popcorn serving hairless chimp, and you get an idea of what I’m up against.

The name’s Jett Turner and my early retirement to a lake on the Texas–Mexico border was supposed to be fun and easy going. It didn’t involve me writing up the twisted exploits of the head of the Acuña Cartel, reporting such to the DEA, or watching pandas blow up, people being fed to tigers, or learning about the bodily functions of the tortured.

The nightmare comes true. Murder hornets have reached US soil, and the first to experience their deadly wrath is the small Texas town of Sweet. With the body count mounting and time of the essence, it’s up to disgraced entomologist Jason Barker and overzealous Sheriff John Sumners to save the town from an agonizing death, no matter the cost.

A professional tiger hunter, a warlord’s army, and a beautiful woman seeking her lost archeologist husband all collide in the rainforest of Sumatra and come face to face with the as yet undiscovered Gigantopithecus blackii, the creature that will come to be known as Bigfoot. The discovery turns into a massacre that throws all involved into an epic battle for survival and the hope of escape from one of the most inhospitable places on earth.

A team of special force ops, led by hunter turned soldier Sergeant Joel “Bwana” Sutton, and CIA Special Agent Ray Kreipe, on a rescue mission along the Cambodia Border at the height of the Vietnam War, encounter an unknown species of ape unlike anything known to science. The discovery quickly turns the rescue mission into a desperate battle of survival of which not all will survive.

When rival syndicates fight for control of the planet’s largest ocean, hired gun Jack Taylor and his team of mercenaries are sent to ensure that one side retains ownership of the expanse, no matter the cost. It’s an assignment that finds Taylor fighting the worst that Mars has to offer in a territory rife with unbelievable dangers.

The Southern Pole of Mars is a frozen wasteland of horrific dangers, creatures from times long past, and unimaginable peril. Hired gun Jack Taylor ventures into this no man’s land to entertain his employer’s friend with a safari for the ages. But what begins as a pleasure hunt soon turns into a fight for survival when contract killers arrive to collect a bounty, and unless Taylor can stop them, it could mean doom for the Martian city of Asann’e.

Hired gun Jack Taylor is sent to the ancient city of Diyu to bring order, but his journey proves treacherous. The river to the city is home to pirates, unspeakable evils, and dangers unknown to history. It’s a mission into the unknown that could be Taylor’s last.

Mars is a lawless planet, its frontier teetering on the edge of anarchy. Jack Taylor is thrust into the crucible when descendants of the First Colony, led by the self-proclaimed New God of Mars, unleash a melee of violence upon the land unlike anything ever seen on the Red Planet. Together with a retired Ranger known as The Gray, Taylor journeys into the badlands to rescue the woman he loves and to right the wrongs no matter the price to be paid.

In 1907, Colonel Percy Fawcett returns from an expedition into the unexplored regions of the Brazilian - Bolivian Borderlands with proof of the largest anaconda in history. Hoping to bring the monster back to civilization, Professor Neal Coldwell hires famed big-game-hunter Barrett Walker to lead him into the unknown and capture what the natives call the Mother of the Waters. The expedition quickly turns deadly, plunging all involved into the ultimate battle for survival.

Hell is unleashed when an American drilling company punches into a massive unknown cavern in the badlands of Mongolia. The cave system lets loose a swarm of creatures unknown to science and hungry for flesh. With the body count climbing every night, Jarrett Taylor and his Primal Force are brought into eliminate the terror—one way or another.

The memories of comrades slaughtered by a mysterious species still haunts CPT Jarrett Taylor. His return to their tunnel home will prove final. Return to the Tunnel is a nonstop roller coaster of hardcore action, violence, and horror.

Hell lies under the Texas-Mexico Border. When the Acuña Cartel tunnels under the Rio Grande and into the United States, they tap into a vast cavern that’s home to a species that was once thought mythical. The massacre that ensues leaves 12 men dead and brings tunnel construction to a standstill. Losing money by the hour, the cartel pulls Captain Jarrett Taylor out of retirement to lead a band of mercenaries under the Earth to eliminate an animal more savage than any human force they’ve ever faced. The mission quickly goes bad and plunges the team into a desperate battle for survival.

They killed his men and destroyed his village, now hunter turned soldier Sergeant Joel Bwana Sutton is out to make things right no matter the cost. Together with a band of unscrupulous mercenaries, he will travel into the fabled Dark Lands to put an end to the unknown species of ape that took everything that ever mattered from him.