PRIMORDIAL

Sam Aston Investigations 1

Co-authored with David Wood

Sometimes, the legends are true. When eccentric billionaire Ellis Holloway hires renegade marine biologist Sam Aston to investigate the legend of a monster in a remote Finnish lake, Aston envisions an easy paycheck and a chance to clear his gambling debts. But he gets much more. Something terrible lives beneath the dark waters of Lake Kaarme, and it’s hungry. As the death toll mounts, Aston faces superstitious locals, a power-hungry police chief, and a benefactor’s descent into madness as he races to find the legendary beast of the lake. 

PRAISE FOR PRIMORDIAL

PRIMORDIAL has everything you’d want from a monster story—great characters, a remote location and a creature with bite! Mixing history and lore with science and action, David Wood and Alan Baxter have penned a thriller that is hard to put down.” – Jeremy Robinson, international bestselling author of Apocalypse Machine and Project Nemesis “What makes a book a hit or a miss (in this case, hit, serious out of the park type of home run hit) is the way of the telling, the details, the extra added touches, the style and characters, the wit, the writing. Lively dialogue, believable interactions and reactions, terrific action scenes, wonderful descriptions … it goes slyly meta with references to stuff like Jurassic Park and King Kong … it’s got a rugged Aussie and the sexy star of a myth-hunter show … it’s even got Nazis, believe it or not. And, of course, an awesome giant toothy aquatic monster! If, like me, you’re a fan of JAWS and MEG and various menaces from the darkest depths, if you’re intrigued by legends of Nessie and sea serpents, if you made embarrassing squee noises over the mosasaur tank scene in Jurassic World … this book is for you!” – The Horror Fiction Review.