Bøger af Erik Lange

This is the prequel to the Karl Lark Chronicles. Contemporary urban fantasy horror fiction set in 2007. Escapist thrill ride, sci-fi thriller, and mystery mashup. If Sherlock Holmes, Indiana Jones, and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea made a baby... www.erik-lange.com The legend begins... Karl Lark is a peculiar, enigmatic man - 63 years old, never married, with a keen interest in the paranormal - now forced into early retirement. He has nothing but time to tinker around in the basement, inventing gadgets. It's retirement after all...what's the worst that could happen? Famous last words. A groundbreaking invention sends him on a quest for answers and Lark uncovers an otherworldly reality that nearly kills him. Not to mention the mysterious entities who've taken a sudden keen interest in him, and whose motives are unclear. Realizing there are threats he is unable to deal with alone. And with his last remaining family member missing, a race against the clock begins to get to the bottom of the disappearance. All while contending with the realization that the eldritch secrets he's stumbled upon aren't quite as secret as he might have believed...

Book three in the Karl Lark Chronicles series. Contemporary urban fantasy horror fiction set in 2015. Escapist thrill ride, sci-fi thriller, and mystery mashup. If Sherlock Holmes, Indiana Jones, and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea made a baby... www.erik-lange.com Giggle Corp - a powerful, global tech company willing to do anything to beat the competition - has a serious problem. Their secretive, artificial intelligence program has gone rogue, and their employees have mysteriously begun to vanish. Dealing with the matter is beyond the scope of even their...extensive capabilities. Fortunately, there is one organization who may be up to the challenge: Karl Lark and his shadowy band of mercenaries. With unlimited resources, supernatural technologies, and little regard for legalities, Lark is who you call when there are no other options. And the reluctant Thomas Davies, a mild-mannered British librarian, is once again along for the ride. Tasked with breaking into a deep-underground server farm, Lark's team once again find themselves on a globe-spanning mission to megalithic sites harboring ancient secrets. Facing mythical adversaries wielding apocalyptic weaponry, Thomas encounters something he is unsure if he, or even the team, will survive. And its name is Legion.

Book two in the Karl Lark Chronicles series. Contemporary urban fantasy horror fiction set in 2015. Escapist thrill ride, sci-fi thriller, and mystery mashup. If Sherlock Holmes, Indiana Jones, and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea made a baby... www.erik-lange.com Months have passed since Thomas Davies' world was turned upside down with his involuntary conscription into the services of the ruthless and enigmatic Karl Lark. While the full capabilities and resources of Mr. Lark's shadowy organization continue to both amaze and mystify Davies, one fact remains abundantly clear: trouble - in copious amounts - seems to follow Lark like a shadow. This time, they do not have to wait long... When a secretive corporation in South America engages Mr. Lark to track down children who mysteriously vanished from its Bright Child Genetic Initiative, Davies is once again thrust into a world of international intrigue, extra-legal maneuverings, metaphysical technologies, and supernatural horrors. At the epicenter of the puzzle sits a 750-year-old structure in the heart of the Czech Republic - a castle bathed in superstition and urban legend - whose peculiar architecture has defied explanation since its completion in the 13th century: Medieval fortresses were typically constructed to keep things out. This one was clearly designed to keep something in...

Book one in the Karl Lark Chronicles series. Contemporary urban fantasy horror fiction set in 2015. Escapist thrill ride, sci-fi thriller, and mystery mashup. If Sherlock Holmes, Indiana Jones, and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea made a baby... www.erik-lange.com Thomas Davies is a bachelor working in the rare book business from his comfortable London flat. When a consulting opportunity at the British Museum goes horribly wrong - ending in bloodshed and a cover-up - he is suddenly thrust into the services of the terrifying, yet fascinating, Karl Lark. Unsure if he's been rescued or kidnapped, the only thing Davies knows for certain is that the single alternative to declining Lark's offer is an unpleasant demise, and that death at the hands of Lark may be the least of his worries. The enigmatic Lark and his mysterious organization are apparently beholden to no one. Operating in the shadows, with seemingly limitless means and technologies that should not exist. Davies soon learns that the world holds more secrets than he ever thought possible. And embarking on a daring, globetrotting mission to rescue a figure of legend, the unspeakable evil that opposes them is far greater - and far more ancient - than anything he ever imagined...