Books like The descent by Jeff Long

A historical novel set in the 12th century, focusing on the building of a cathedral and the surrounding community's fortunes amidst historical events of the time.

In Jeff VanderMeer’s Authority, a secret agency known as the Southern Reach watches over the mysterious Area X, a lush domain cut off from civilization. After a failed twelfth expedition, new head John Rodriguez uncovers unsettling truths through interrogations, notes, and harrowing video footage.

A demon hunter faces an insatiable killer in Hell, as Lucifer returns to Heaven.

Astronauts and researchers dive into the Marianas Trench, desperate to find a cure for the plague that has taken over the world.

When armed killers crash Henry's unathletic survival camp, a stubborn teenager must rely on his growing confidence and survival skills to protect his friends in the wilderness.

A tense psychological thriller that explores deception and the complexities of interpersonal relations in a Swedish winter setting.

An intriguing tale of a woman who discovers her past while solving the mysteries of a small, isolated town and finding herself entangled in a web of dark secrets and warnings.

"A thrilling Cold War narrative exploring two harrowing attempts to rescue East Germans by tunneling beneath the Berlin Wall, the U.S. television networks who financed and filmed them, and the Kennedy administration's unprecedented attempt to suppress both films. In the summer of 1962, one year after East German Communists built the Berlin Wall, a group of daring young West Germans came up with a plan. They would risk prison, Stasi torture, even death to liberate friends, lovers, and strangers in East Berlin by digging tunnels under the Wall. Among the tunnelers and escape helpers were a legendary cyclist, an American student from Stanford, and an engineer who would later help build the tunnel under the English Channel. Then two U.S. television networks, NBC and CBS, heard about the secret projects, and raced to be first to air a spectacular 'inside tunnel' special on the human will for freedom. The networks funded two separate tunnels in return for exclusive rights to film the escapes. In response, President John F. Kennedy and Secretary of State Dean Rusk, wary of anything that might raise tensions and force a military confrontation with the Soviets, maneuvered to quash both documentaries. Unfolding week by week, sometimes hour by hour, Greg Mitchell's riveting narrative deftly cuts back and forth from one extraordinary character to another. There's the tunneler who had already served four years in the East German gulag; the Stasi informer who betrays the 'CBS tunnel'; the young East Berliner who escapes with her baby, then marries one of the tunnelers; and broadcast legend Daniel Schorr, who battled unsuccessfully to save his film from White House interference and remained bitter about it to the end of his life. Looming over all is John F. Kennedy, who was ambivalent about--even hostile toward--the escape operations. Kennedy confessed to Dean Rusk: 'We don't care about East Berlin.' Based on extensive access to the Stasi archives, long-secret U.S. documents, and new interviews with tunnelers and refugees, The Tunnels provides both rich history and high suspense. Award-winning journalist Mitchell captures the hopes and fears of everyday Berliners; the chilling reach of the Stasi secret police; U.S. networks prepared to 'pay for play' yet willing to cave to official pressure; and a White House and State Department eager to suppress historic coverage. The result is 'breaking history, ' a propulsive read whose themes reverberate even today"--

A thrilling adventure story set in Jerusalem about a linguistics professor who discovers a priceless ancient text in search of a treasure that could change the world.

An account of a deadly commuter plane crash that took place in northern Canada in 1984 involving a pilot, a politician, a cop and the criminal he was escorting.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

Retired agent Horace Christopher teams up with four other ex-intelligence officers to hunt for his cousin Paul, believed to be dead after a mysterious disappearance.

A thriller about a nuclear scientist turned murderer, and the man who tries to prevent a nuclear disaster.

A gripping thriller set in Antarctica and Egypt, The Sign combines suspense, history, and religion in a tale of a mysterious sphere of light and a world-shaking revelation.

A collection of 3 parts containing 30 short stories of horror, featuring authors ranging from Stephen King and Shirley Jackson to H.P. Lovecraft and Robert W. Chambers.

A group of executives is held hostage in a luxurious business retreat by a group of backwoods hunters, with the goal of demanding a ransom of unprecedented size.