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Alex Hunter (Greig Beck) Books in Order

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Explore the Alex Hunter series by Greig Beck in publication order, with book summaries, reading order notes and how the Arcadian adventures connect to his other linked series.

Last updated: January 14, 2026

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13 books

1

The Silurian Bridge

by Greig Beck

2024

Time travel becomes a weapon when North Korean agents slip back 420 million years to alter the Silurian world and erase a future United States. Alex Hunter and his HAWCs follow, battling alien seeming lifeforms and the clock itself to drag history back onto its track.

2

The Well of Hell

by Greig Beck

2022

In the deserts of Yemen, a buried pyramid older than any known structure is uncovered and found deliberately entombed. Alex Hunter and the HAWCs enter to investigate and stumble upon proof that humans have been harvested for millennia and that a terrifying species still waits below.

3

The Dark Side

by Greig Beck

2021

When the American base on the Moon’s far side goes silent, a last chilling transmission contains a single word: lifeform. Alex Hunter and the HAWCs are sent on a rescue mission into airless darkness, where they uncover an alien presence and a plot that reaches back to Earth.

4

From Hell

by Greig Beck

2019

Archaeologist Maria Monti uncovers a disturbing relic in the ruins of Pompeii, hinting that something far worse than ash killed many of its citizens. When volcanic activity surges across Italy and people vanish into the smoke, Alex Hunter must venture into a living inferno to save his family.

5

The Void

by Greig Beck

2018

A research shuttle returning from orbit collides with a mysterious object and crashes into Alaskas Revelation Mountains. As rival recovery teams race toward the wreck, Alex Hunter and the HAWCs discover that something else came down with the crew, and it is mutating at terrifying speed.

6

Kraken Rising

by Greig Beck

2015

Years after his first Antarctic mission, Alex Hunter returns to the ice when a lost U S submarine suddenly broadcasts an emergency beacon from deep below the frozen continent. Competing with a Chinese team, the HAWCs descend into forbidden waters where a titanic predator is waiting.

7

Hammer of God

by Greig Beck

2015

A new secure zone in Iraq is obliterated by a nuclear blast carried in on the back of a single gigantic figure. As doomsday prophecies resurface and the dead seem to rise, Alex Hunter and Mossad agent Adira Senesh chase an ancient evil reborn.

8

Gorgon

by Greig Beck

2014

A treasure hunter in Istanbul breaks open a sealed chamber beneath the city and unleashes something Emperor Constantine ordered hidden forever. As victims are found turned to stone, Alex Hunter and the HAWCs race a vengeful Russian assassin to stop a walking myth reaching a NATO base.

9

Black Mountain

by Greig Beck

2012

Alex Hunter wakes in a remote house with no memory, gripped by an urge to return to Black Mountain in the Appalachians. As hikers vanish and a survivor bleeds something not quite human, Alex and professor Matt Kearns confront a towering predator from legend.

10

Arcadian Genesis

by Greig Beck

2012

This prequel shows the mission that creates the Arcadian. Sent into a war torn Chechen village to extract a defecting scientist and a strange object dug from ancient ice, Alex Hunter’s team faces human enemies and a horror that never should have been awakened.

11

This Green Hell

by Greig Beck

2011

In the steaming jungles of Paraguay, petrobiologist Aimee Weir discovers a bizarre microorganism in a deep gas field. The camp succumbs to a lethal contagion and vanishings in the night, drawing Alex Hunter and the HAWCs into a quarantined zone hiding something far worse.

12

Dark Rising / Return of the Prophet

by Greig Beck

2010

A colossal burst of gamma radiation under the Iranian desert looks like a secret weapon test, until Alex Hunter’s team finds an empty facility and a vanished lab. As soldiers turn up drained of life, Alex must confront a creature tied to apocalyptic prophecy.

13

Beneath the Dark Ice

by Greig Beck

2009

When a jet crashes into Antarctic ice and reveals a vast cave system, Captain Alex Hunter and his HAWC commandos escort scientists into the darkness. They find no survivors, only ancient carvings, haunted tunnels and a predator from the dawn of time.

Series background & context

This version of the Alex Hunter series page highlights how the Arcadian missions sit at the center of Greig Becks wider universe. Captain Alex Hunter is a super enhanced commando whose operations often brush against the same ancient forces and strange technologies that drive the authors other books.

In the early novels he works alongside petrobiologist Aimee Weir and the hard edged HAWC team in frozen caves, irradiated deserts and steaming jungles. Linguist Matt Kearns, later the lead in his own novels, appears as the academic voice in stories like Black Mountain, trying to decode the legends behind each new threat.

Further into the sequence the familiar faces broaden. Mossad agent Adira Senesh brings a spy thriller edge to Hammer of God and later titles, while crossovers with the Matt Kearns and Cate Granger novels hint that the same buried gods, parasites and deep sea monsters may be stirring in oceans, lost worlds and even deep space.

Later entries such as The Void, From Hell, The Dark Side, The Well of Hell and The Silurian Bridge stretch the concept even further. Alex and the HAWCs deal with objects falling from the void of space, volcanic gateways that feel like myth come to life, buried structures that hint at earlier masters of Earth, and a mission that drops them into the Silurian period to protect the timeline.

Seen as a whole, the Alex Hunter line forms the backbone of Becks action horror world. The books move from Antarctic caverns and hidden cities to crashed shuttles, alien artifacts, ancient pyramids and prehistoric landscapes. The tone stays the same, with short, sharp chapters, high stakes and plenty of creatures that feel one step beyond real science.

Reading the series in order helps you track Alexs changing relationship with his own abilities and with the people he trusts. It also gives useful context for the events of the Matt Kearns, Primordia, Center of the Earth and Mysterious Island stories, where discoveries made in one series often echo across another.

If you like following character arcs and small Easter eggs, this is where you can see how the Arcadian thread ties Greig Becks various series into one connected universe of secret programs, ancient horrors and worlds hidden just out of sight.

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