Bøger af Richard McCrohan

Being an account of another adventure of Prof. George E. Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Prof. Summerlee, and Mr. E. D. Malone, the discoverers of The Lost World.

The awaited sequel to Family Ties, Family Secrets.It has been over a year since Richie had his climactic encounter with the infamous Pittman family. Now, finally at peace, he feels free of their unholy grasp. But two relentless journalists turn up at his door determined to write the story of the entire Pittman family. But the last remaining Pittman has heard of this also, and is equally determined to stop it and to seek his revenge.Now not only Richie, but Rob, Caroline, and Jerry find themselves in a final fight for their lives as the sadistic killers return to finish their game of death.

This compendium contains all three novels of the Pittman Family Trilogy.Family Ties- In 1961 ten-year-old Richie met the new boy in school, Joey Pittman. A school bully brings them both together and they soon become best friends. Joey lives with his father in his grandmother's large, old house at the end of town. As Richie spends more and more time there, he meets the large extended Pittman family. But the Pittmans aren't your usual family. They are very different and very dangerous. After a couple of years a suspicious incident occurs and the family disappears, Richie learns the family's secrets. But they will follow and torment him the rest of his life.Family Secrets- It is now 2019. Richie's family is grown and he is living in Florida. Still in terror of the Pittmans, a chance meeting with a group of friends leads Richie to a possible way to end the family's demented grip on his life. But his delving into their secrets has not gone un-noticed. Soon Richie and his new friends find themselves in a deadly life and death struggle for survival.Family Plots- More than a year later, Richie finally feels free of the viciousness of the Pittman curse. But when two well known journalists show up at his door wanting to write a book about the infamous Pittman family, the remaining family killers return to finish their game of death for once and for all.

When a rogue comet enters the solar system, it collides with Mars, and world governments go into overtime assuring citizens that the meteor showers that will occur as Earth passes through the dust cloud will be dazzling but harmless.A few weeks later, 30 percent of Earth's population starts getting sick.After the first round of the Pandora virus dissipates without causing too many casualties, the world's concern dissolves along with it. But then those previously infected fall prey to a far worse strain of the apparently dormant virus.Meanwhile in New Jersey, best friends Sean, Mike, Jack, and Brian are living the idyllic bachelor life of young, healthy twentysomethings. But as this new wave of the virus erupts into a full-scale zombie apocalypse, they find themselves thrust into a nightmare of epic proportions.Imprisoned in their home, with dwindling provisions, the friends argue over whether it's better to stay or attempt a trip to a gated stronghold in Florida-until a momentary lapse in judgment forces their hand.The foursome must fight for their lives through a terrifying landscape of flesh-eating zombies. Yet the undead aren't necessarily the worst of their problems...

Bundy, Gacy, Rader, Ridgeway...they all had one thing in common --- Gramma Pittman and her deranged family.Family Ties: In 1961 when Richie was ten years old he met Joey Pittman. Although they became best friends, Richie had no idea that Joey and his family would drastically change his life forever and turn it into a living nightmare.Family Secrets: Now, years later, a chance encounter with a group of friends seeking to solve a sister's disappearancegives Richie the opportunity to put an end to his life-long torment and end the Pittman family forever.

They call it the Pandora virus: an alien pathogen released by a rogue comet. A third of the world falls sick, but most recover-only to be struck down when the virus mutates into a new, deadly form. Struck down, only to rise again. Now the undead roam the planet, feeding and spreading the strange alien disease. In the small town of Colby, the police department can only watch in horror as news reports recount the ongoing apocalypse. Until, that is, the undead come to Colby. As police officers Troy, Deke, and Frank struggle to save lives, they soon find themselves overwhelmed by the utter strangeness of their new lives. A high school fight becomes a death trap. A disturbance at a local salon turns into a life and death battle. A routine call becomes a death sentence. The situation only escalates when the sheriff from the next town over blocks residents' attempts to escape Colby-and instead funnels more of the undead toward the besieged town. Alone, outmanned, and exhausted, Troy and his friends have to accept a cruel reality. Not only are they unable to save their fellow townspeople, they may not even be able to save themselves.

Sean, Mike, Jack, Tommy, and their friends have slipped through the zombie horde in Boca Raton and sailed to the safety of Key West. There, they hope to regroup, recover, and mourn. Instead they find themselves in conflict with modern-day pirates as savage as the undead.On the mainland, several survivors huddle in a West Palm Beach condo building, their supplies running perilously low. They face a choice: flee through a zombie-infested city or starve. They choose action.Caught between zombies, pirates, and a desperate army mission to obliterate the undead, the two groups will converge. Whether they join forces or turn on each other will determine who survives. Neither group is aware of yet another danger hidden in their midst-a killer who sees opportunity for slaughter in the chaos of the apocalypse.Pandora 2 continues zombie aficionado Richard McCrohan's tense, action-filled adventure in a world gone mad, where ordinary people discover just how far they're willing to go to survive. Sean and his friends have made it this far, but how long can anyone hope to stand against the dead when the living can't be trusted?

Patrick Shannon, his wife Anne and their two children Dwayne and Erica are your typical middle American family. But when the American dream becomes the nightmare of a zombie apocalypse via the deadly Pandora virus, will Patrick be able to keep his family alive and together in a world torn apart. Book five of the exciting Pandora series explores the global zombie pandemic through the eyes of the parents and children of an average American family.

New York City. The Big Apple. The greatest city in the world. When the Pandora virus causes a world-wide zombie apocalypse, the big cities were quarantined and closed off. Entry and exit points were shut down. The infected population was considered too vast to deal with. Despite a military presence, the residents were written off as dead.Rick Sturges and PJ Jordan brought their girlfriends to Manhattan to have a day and night in the city. Now they find themselves trapped in a city of the dead. As the zombies multiply and the survivors turn on each other, Rick and PJ struggle to fight for their lives and find a way home.

On one tragic October day, a horrible school bus accident sends two neighboring towns into a tailspin of shock, grief and unrelenting sorrow. Jimmy Freeman and his four friends heard all of the stories and rumors about the horrendous loss of life in that violent crash. But their ten-year-old imaginations get the better of them and now they have to go and see the cursed site for themselves. But some things are best left alone and should never be disturbed.

In 1961 when ten year old Richie meets Joey Pittman and his deranged family he doesn't realize that life as he knows it will be irrevocably changed. It now would be turned into a living nightmare. Then, years later, a chance encounter gives Richie the opportunity to end his terror and bring an end to the insanity of the Pittman family.

Patrick Shannon, his wife Anne, and their children Dwayne and Erica are a perfectly average middle class American family.But when an alien virus is brought to Earth by a rogue comet and creates a world-wide pandemic, their life becomes anything but perfect. Or average. The Pandora virus mutates into a civilization shattering zombie apocalypse that leaves the Shannon family, and the entire world scrambling to stay alive.This, the fifth book in the Pandora series, looks at survival during the Pandora zombie apocalypse through the eyes of a suburban family; from the children and their parents. What would you do to survive, what sacrifices would you make?

The Pandora virus has mutated and already has ravaged Asia, Africa and Europe in a devastating zombie apocalypse. Now it is America's turn. Rick Sturges and Phil"PJ"Jordan are taking their girlfriends for a weekend in New York City. They couldn't have picked a worse time. Now trapped in a city gone mad, they must fight bloodthirsty zombies and desperate survivors to try and make their way home. But Rick and PJ find that it's a struggle just to stay alive.

When a rogue comet enters our solar system and collides with Mars, it sends a huge dust and debris cloud into Earth's orbital path. This cloud contains an alien virus that infects 1/3 of the worlds population. At first it only sickens, but soon mutates turning its victims into blood-thirsty zombies intent on spreading the virus. Sean Sullivan and his three best friends find themselves in the middle of a world wide zombie apocalypse. Struggling to save family and friends, the young men must embark on a cross country trip to safety. Upon arriving they find zombie and human alike intent on their destruction. With intense realism and edge of your seat suspense, author Richard McCrohan leaves you breathless as you discover who will live and who will fall victim to Pandora.