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Operation Fenland: S-Squad Book 19

severed_press_ — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 21:32:27 +0000

The S-Squad has a new C.O. but the job hasn’t changed.

They’re sent to East Anglia, in the middle of the worst storm in a generation.

They think they’re doing a favor for an old friend, but instead they find themself being stalked in the fenland.

Something haunts the sodden streets and fields of the flooded village of Titmarsh, something out of legend.

Black Shuck is on the prowl.

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Operation Below (S-Squad Book 18)

severed_press_ — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:53:35 +0000

When Sergeant Wiggins is given a chance to prove himself it seems like a cushy number, acting as consultants for a police operation on the Austria-Germany border.

But fate takes a hand. Cattle are being mutilated, the police are baffled, and to find the reason why Wiggo must lead the squad and take them Below, where beasts of legend, red in tooth and claw, are waiting, hungry for fresh meat.

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The Creeping Kelp

severed_press_ — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 18:48:11 +0000

Some seaweed, a jellyfish and some material brought back from the Peabodie expedition to Antarctica. An innocuous enough blend you might think. But when a storm in the North Atlantic frees a sample that has been dormant inside an old wreck, the new creature finds that it is hungry. Our plastics-orientated society has given it an abundant supply of food…more than enough for it to grown, and build, and spread

Can anyone escape the terror that is…The Creeping Kelp?

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Crustaceans

severed_press_ — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 20:17:10 +0000

Killer Crabs Take Manhattan!

A welcome return to those tomes of pure enjoyment that we read with guilt in our early teens, in the tradition of James Herbert’s THE RATS and Guy N. Smith’s NIGHT OF THE CRABS.

It begins with a dead whale on a Boston shoreline–not in itself an unusual occurrence. But the things that claw their way out of the blubber are very unusual indeed.

Giant crabs descend on a small coastal town and, having feasted, make their way to Manhattan, hunted and harried by a SWAT team tasked with ridding the city of the menace…before the menace gets big enough to rid itself of the city.

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Operation Yukatan (S-Squad Book 17)

severed_press_ — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 20:20:23 +0000

It’s supposed to be a simple. babysitting gig, a way to ease in a new recruit to the squad.

A new oil exploration site in the Yucatan is to receive an inspection from a team of Whitehall suits, with the squad along as backup.

But the site has been built in exactly the wrong place. Something else, creatures from legend, lays claim to the land, and they want it back.

When matters come to a head the squad does what it always does.

They take a stand.

They fight.

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OPERATION: NORTH POLE: S-SQUAD BOOK 11

severed_press_ — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 07:48:45 +0000

It’s cold, it’s dark and Wiggo is worried about the future of the squad. When they arrive at a Research Station at the North Pole his worries are proved to be justified. But the squad’s problem’s only get worse as they uncover the scale of an unfolding menace. There are great white bears in the cold Arctic night, red in tooth and claw.

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OPERATION ORKNEY: S-SQUAD BOOK 15

severed_press_ — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 10:32:30 +0000

Private Wilkins is hoping for an easy op on his return to the squad. It appears to be one at first as they undertake bodyguard duties for one of the team’s old friends. But when they arrive on the northern Scottish island of Orkney matters take a turn for the worse. Legends from the mists of history have returned to their old places. And they are out for blood.

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SEA HUNTERS: SHONISAURUS

severed_press_ — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 09:43:09 +0000

John Seton, a grizzled British sailor, is a sea monster hunter. When he takes on a job for an exclusive yacht club in South East Asia he expects it to be a simple one. It’s only one beastie after all. But all too soon John and his crew discover that they are in big trouble. An ancient terror from the deep has risen. And it is out for revenge.

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OPERATION: PATAGONIA: S-SQUAD BOOK 14

severed_press_ — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 17:41:35 +0000

The squad’s latest mission is to rescue a group of British holidaymakers from a remote glacier in South America, but things go wrong almost from the start. The glacier is no dead domain of ice and snow. Rather than attempting a rescue the S Squad find themselves in a fight for survival, in unfamiliar terrain where giants walk. Hungry giants, with filed teeth and a taste for flesh.

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OPERATION: LONDON: S-SQUAD BOOK 13

severed_press_ — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 18:06:10 +0000

When a Minister opens his big mouth after too many beers in Parliament, the squad find themselves assigned to what seems a routine missing persons case in London. They soon discover that the job is their kind of thing after all. There’s something growing in the sewers and tube tunnels. It’s big, it’s hungry, and it’s about to bring chaos to the streets of London.

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THE CITY BELOW

severed_press_ — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 19:51:42 +0000

THE CITY BELOW continues the adventures detailed in THE LAND BELOW and THE SEA BELOW. Our adventurers have escaped a conflagration only to find themselves in a great underground city. They quickly discover they are not alone. And when a natural disaster threatens to engulf them it becomes a battle for survival. Can they find the route home to the sun before it is closed to them forever?

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OPERATION: SAHARA: S-SQUAD BOOK 12

severed_press_ — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 09:40:15 +0000

In this latest in the popular S-Squad series the team are sent into a remote area of the Libyan desert to rescue a team of researchers who have gone missing. When their search leads them to a lost city in a high desert canyon they find that they are also following in the footsteps of a previous Scottish squad, a team from the Victorian era. The city is overrun with an infestation and soon the squad are separated and under siege. Can they avoid the fate that befell their predecessors and find their way to safety?

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THE SEA BELOW

severed_press_ — Sat, 22 May 2021 07:46:26 +0000

The adventurers from THE LAND BELOW return to the cavern under the Austrian Alps. At first it is a rescue mission, but soon Danny, Stefan, Ed and Elsa find themselves in a fight for survival. A perilous journey across an underground sea brings them to a lost island and fresh adventures, but their attempts to return to the surface only serve to make their situation worse. Now they must flee for their lives, with all the denizens of that strange island at their heels.

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OPERATION: YUKON: S-SQUAD BOOK 11

severed_press_ — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 18:35:03 +0000

Newly promoted Sergeant Wiggins doesn’t have any time for celebrations.The squad’s latest assignment takes then to the Canadian Yukon, into the middle of a winter storm and to a town overrun by ancient enemies of man, back now to wreak havoc in the snow.

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OPERATION: NORTH SEA: S-SQUAD BOOK 10

severed_press_ — Fri, 16 Oct 2020 19:03:33 +0000

The chill grey waters of the North Sea off the Scottish coast are treacherous at the best of times and become even more so when something attacks an offshore oil rig. An old friend calls for S-Squad’s expertise but what they find is a bigger enemy by far than any they have previously encountered. This time they’re going to need bigger guns.

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THE LAND BELOW

severed_press_ — Sat, 05 Sep 2020 10:35:21 +0000

A treasure hunt into the deepest cave system in Europe takes a turn for the worst.

Now rather than treasure it is survival that is at the forefront of the spelunkers’ thoughts. But their attempt to escape out of the dark deep places is thwarted.

Men are not at home in the depths. But there are things that are, pale terrifying things.

Huge things.

Things red in tooth and claw.

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OPERATION CONGO

severed_press_ — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 21:19:56 +0000

A mission to the Congo starts badly for S-Squad and gets worse fast as they trace a team of captured WHO medics to a lost world in the interior.The Squad are isolated, split up, and face terrors long since thought extinct.Mokele-mbembe walks this jungle. And he is not alone.

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THE LOST VALLEY

severed_press_ — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 07:56:27 +0000

A remote high valley in the Canadian Rockies hides an ecosystem that has been lost in time. A small team of prospectors and their local guides are looking for gold. What they find is blood and terror and death.The valley’s monstrous inhabitants are not about to let go of its secrets lightly.

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OPERATION MONGOLIA

severed_press_ — Wed, 29 May 2019 18:49:50 +0000

It’s supposed to be a routine job, walking a pair of stranded archaeologists out of the Gobi Desert.

But when the rains come unexpectedly, S-Squad’s troubles are only starting.

There is something in the sand, something red and wriggling.

Thirsty for water.

Hungry for flesh.

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OPERATION NORWAY: S-SQUAD BOOK 7

severed_press_ — Fri, 10 May 2019 05:03:10 +0000

It’s supposed to be a simple sanitation job, a post war scientific base that needs cleansed of anything that might prove incriminating to British and Norwegian governments.

But when the S-Squad try to complete their mission they are pursued in the mountains and fjords by something out of legend.

They have woken a sleeping beast.

Now it’s angry, ready for a fight. And it’s bringing its friends along.

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OPERATION SYRIA: S-SQUAD BOOK 6

severed_press_ — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 13:01:12 +0000

A trip to a war zone to rescue trapped archaeologists finds the S-Squad in a remote desert region of lost cities and temples. They quickly discover that they are not alone among the ruins. First they find the bodies, then they find the webs, then they’re in real trouble when the spiders attack. Big spiders. Lots of them.

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OPERATION: LOCH NESS: S-SQUAD BOOK 5

severed_press_ — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 09:50:15 +0000

S-Squad are relieved to be home, and even an order to investigate animal mutilations at a local wildlife park does not seem like an onerous detail. But things take a turn to the twilight zone all too quickly around the S-Squad, and even their homeland is not immune. Something is feeding, ravenously, on animals, wildlife, and now people in the Scottish Highlands, and the trail leads to only one place, a place of legends, and the dark waters of Loch Ness

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OPERATION: AMAZON: S-SQUAD BOOK 4

severed_press_ — Sun, 21 Oct 2018 09:59:02 +0000

The members of S-Squad are looking for a break from their run of cold climate travails. So when a seemingly simple mission in Amazonia comes their way, they are looking forward to some welcome warmth. What they get is oppresive heat, biting insects, and a dredging operation on the river with a snake problem. A big snake problem. Soon they are in a fight for survival. The old snake gods of the river know the waterways much better than our Scottish squaddies. Are their wits, and bonds of comradeship enough to see them through?

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OPERATION: SIBERIA: S-SQUAD BOOK 3

severed_press_ — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 06:56:27 +0000

When Captain John Banks and his squad are sent to investigate a zoo in Siberia, he expects to find tigers, bears, maybe elk But there is something there that is new, yet very, very old. Beasts that haven’t walked the Earth since the last Ice Age have been cloned, revived, and set loose to roam free. And some of them are very hungry.

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OPERATION ANTARCTICA: S-SQUAD BOOK 2

severed_press_ — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 11:25:44 +0000

When Captain John Banks and his squad are sent to investigate a derelict Nazi base in Antarctica, he expects to find only ice and dead men. But there is something in the domed hangar bay that has been waiting for decades for release. A weapon was primed many years before. It had been meant to turn the tide of war. Now it stirs under the ice once more.

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INFESTATION: S-SQUAD BOOK 1

severed_press_ — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 09:29:24 +0000

It was supposed to be a simple mission. A suspected Russian spy boat is in trouble in Canadian waters. Investigate and report are the orders. But when Captain John Banks and his squad arrive, it is to find an empty vessel, and a scene of bloody mayhem. Soon they are in a fight for their lives, for there are things in the icy seas off Baffin Island, scuttling, hungry things with a taste for human flesh. They are swarming. And they are growing.

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