The Descent (The Descent #1)
Jeff Long
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
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· 30 ratings · 598 pages · Published: 26 Mar 1999
In a cave in the Himalayas, a guide discovers a self-mutilated body with the warning "Satan exists".
In the Kalahari Desert, a nun unearths evidence of a proto-human species and a deity called Older-than-Old.
In Bosnia, something has been feeding upon the dead in a mass grave.
So begins mankind’s most shocking realization: that the underworld is a vast geological labyrinth populated by another race of beings. Some call them "devils" or "demons." But they are real. They are down there. And they are waiting for us to find them…
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