If you enjoy history laced with fast-paced action, conspiracy and adventure in true Indiana Jones style, then you’re going to love The ALPHA STRAIN!Travel three hundred thousand years back in time as we join Alex and Sam in an adventure that will rewrite history, as we know it!Recruited by the United Nations, Alex and Sam set off on their most dangerous mission yet. Tasked to find and retrieve … yet. Tasked to find and retrieve the last remaining fossil evidence from a death-defying underground cave system, they soon come face to face with a nation in conflict against each other. Caught between the crossfire of a country plunged into a historically charged political war, keeping their wits about them and allegiance to their mission are the only things keeping them from being killed.
But lurking in the shadows, a narcissistic billionaire with a sinister desire to feed his ego will stop at nothing to steal the fossil. Seeking more than mere power and acclaim his motives drive him to stop at nothing to get his hands on the relic before anyone else does.
Will Alex and Sam successfully complete their mission and escape South Africa unscathed, or will this be their first mission to leave more harm than good in its wake?
The Alpha Strain is Book #3 in the Alex Hunt Adventure Thriller series. Based on real facts, an actual excavation and a true-life fossil discovery.
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„The Alpha Strain“ (Alex Hunt Book 3) by Urcelia Teixeira, brings Alex and Sam to South Africa in a quest to find the remains of a lost human ancestor in a recent discovered fossil depot.
This time Alex is commissioned by the United Missions to find and assess the human remains of homo nadeli, who could potentially change the consensus on of human history. What begins as a unique opportunity for research, turns very fast into the most dangerous and twisted adventure Alex have never been part of. Everybody has a hidden agenda and Alex and Sam get caught in the middle, with the additional danger lurking in warn-torn South Africa the stakes are very high. As Sam and some members of the team are injured in an attack even before reaching the site, Alex has to proceed by herself and rely solely in herself to overcome the hazards of being thrown into a very violent South Africa where gangs roam free and everything seems to work against the retrieval of the fossils.
“The Alpha Strain” incorporates actual historical facts, such as the discovery of homo nadeli in the Rising Star Cave in 2013 and the story of apartheid and Mandela, into a fast-paced action adventure thriller which keeps the reader in the edge of his seat, frantically turning the pages to keep with the plot just to be confronted with a new twist. Even with a knowledge of the actual historical background to the book, this adventure is the most surprising and unexpected in Alex career. An absolute must read!
This book is full of history, suspense, and will leave you with a desire to not lay it down until you have finished it……no matter how late it is!
Urcelia Teixeira is most definitely an author to follow! The “Alpha Strain” is a thrilling, action packed, page turner. I literally could not put it down. I can’t emphasize enough just how incredible this book is! Our main character and heroine Alex Hunt is a force to be reckoned with. Urcelia grips you from the start and pulls you into the story so that you feel as if you’re there, partaking of the adventure with Alex and Sam. she holds your interest with amazing plot twists and turns. The story itself is packed full of suspense, danger, intrigue and betrayal, not to forget the historical element. This story was one nail-biting, heart-stopping roller coaster ride! Thank you so much Urcelia for the pleasure of reading the “Alpha Strain”!
Never a dull moment! Full of thrills, chills and non-stop action!
WOW, what a rollercoaster ride of thrills and spills !!!
Alex Hunt is on a wild and crazy hunt for something spectacular and she gets an adventure she won’t soon forget !!
Loved it !!!
Great teamwork!
Indiana Jones on steroids! Alex and Sam team up to solve another archaeological mystery! Loads of harrowing situations and heart stopping adventure! Great read!
Nice archeological thriller. Lots of drama and adventure.
Really enjoyed this book, it was fast paced and easy to read.
The story is based on the finding of some fossil bones in South Africa and a lot of research went into writing the book.
In the story Alex Hunt is asked by the UN to retrieve a tooth from a fossil in war torn South Africa. She is assisted by a trained team of commandos as the area she is going into is very dangerous. Unbeknownst to her when she starts a very rich egomaniac is also looking for the tooth and will stop at nothing to get it. He wants to use it for his own evil purposes. Alex must battle him and the gangs and thugs in South Africa plus figure out the clues as to where the tooth is hidden.
Loved some of the other characters that assisted her along the way and their back stories. Looking forward to more books in this series.
Received the book as an ARC from the author for an honest review.
Dangerous, fast paced and life changing search that will change theory of evolution for everyone if successful.
Urcelia Teixeira as the author totally did her homework for this story and then added a whole new dimension of excitement and danger.
Alex Hunt is now working for the United Nations but she is forced into a mission to recover a extremely special bone from a very deep and dangerous cave in wartorn Africa. Her only condition is that her partner Sam Quinn accompany her. From the very beginning the trip is fraught with danger and death.
This is a riviting story of a search for the missing bone that can change our theory of evolution. The mission is to search and recover the bone. The catch in all this, the bone is located in the depth of one of the most dangerous caves in Africa. The quest is entwined with danger, war, and duplicity from many directions. Will Alex and Sam both survive and return safely, or can the bone ever be retrived and saved from the ravages of war.
I gave this book 5 Stars and loved it. I started the book and could not put it down, but then this was the case with the first 2 Alex Hunt books I eagerly await the next book.
Extremely fast paced action thriller set in South Africa. Mandela has just been released from prison. What should have been a joyous occasion is fraught with social unrest, chaos. Archeologist Alex Hunt is tasked with recovering remnants from fossils discovered in South Aftrica dating back over 200,000 years with remarkable similarity to modern man. She has been betrayed by the very person who sent her. This is an amazing novel. Enjoyed immensely! My highest recommendation
This is the closest I will ever get to be an archaeologist…which I have always wanted to do since I was around 12 years old…but my fear of spiders took care of that dream.
The Alpha Strain is an action packed thriller with one of the best heroines in literary books…Alex Hunt. She is an ass kicking heroine who searches for clues and answers. The Alpha Strain has to be one of the hardest adventures to date for Alex and Sam Quinn…will they find what they are looking for or will it be the end? You will have to read the book to find out….
Highly recommend this series!
It’s a cliche to say a book is a “page turner” but The Alpha Strain really & truly is. The book is full of modern & ancient history; there are subtle tie-ins later in the book to the beginning of the book … so don’t skim too much! Urcelia Teixeira is great story teller. She makes you feel like you’re right there with Alex & Sam in the middle of their adventures. I strongly recommend The Alpha Strain & all of Urcelia’s other books; you won’t be disappointed. Be forewarned though … once you start it, you won’t want to put it down!