Grab-you-by-the-throat action from a fantastic new author.

Biogeneticists open Pandora's box by tampering with the genes of several primates, which escape and breed in the California wilderness of Crater.

Several years later, Matt Hayden, an expeditionary biologist, is trapped by an earthquake in the remote Californian town during its annual reptile festival. Along with his colleague Clancy Ryan and Dr Lauren Vale, the town's survivors are thrown into conflict with an arriving horde of hybrid apes, whose intelligence and breeding cycles have been genetically enhanced.

Fascinated by these creatures, Matt forms a tenuous relationship with the hybrids' leader, Kubla. However, relations between the two trapped species deteriorate, and Crater becomes an apocalyptic battleground in humanity's fight to remain the dominant species on earth.

This fantastic new novel blends science, action, suspense, romance, humour and horror into a scientific thriller that will leave you breathless.

Reviews:
'Full of imagination and breathless action.' - Dean Koontz
'Marvelously engrossing, Crater has enough spellbinding intrigue to satisfy the most avid reader of adventure.'- Clive Cussler

Phoenix Connor has been many things, a teacher, consultant, editor and part time adventurer. Over the years Connor's articles and short stories-mystery, suspense, horror-have been published in various magazines around the world including Australia, UK, US, South Africa and even Norway. In 2004 Connor decided to write full time and inspired by a mentor and friend, Dean Koontz, began CRATER, Connor's first novel. Connor is currently working on a second novel, an adventure thriller set in an ancient city in present-day Turkey and featuring characters from CRATER.

Random House Australia
Author: Phoenix Conner
SBN: 9781863256261 / 1863256261
RRP: $32.95