{"id":3334,"date":"2026-01-03T23:19:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/grave-descend-crichton-michael\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T23:19:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:19:51","slug":"grave-descend-crichton-michael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/grave-descend-crichton-michael\/","title":{"rendered":"Grave Descend &#8211; Crichton, Michael"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='book-preview'>\n<h3>Book Preview<\/h3>\n<p class=\"noind\">S<small class=\"calibre3\">TARTING IN THE EARLY DAWN<\/small> light, he had driven up into the mountains, leaving the flat sprawl of Kingston behind him. He had cut through the tiny mountain villages, the native huts perched precariously beside the road; then down through lush valleys of tropical vegetation, damp in the misty morning wetness; and finally up once more to the cold air of the peaks which sheltered the north coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ind\">Now it was eight o\u2019clock in the morning, and he was coming down, hunched over his bike, doing a hundred, with the sound of the engine in his ears, and the wind in his hair. In the distance, he could see blue water, with waves breaking across the inner reefs, and hotels lining the beachfront. A momentary glimpse: then he plunged into the final twisting green decline which led him to Ocho Rios.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ind\">McGregor hated Ocho Rios. Once a beautiful and elegant strip of coastline, it was now a long succession of gaudy hotels, fag nightclubs, stud services and steel band discos, all patronized by hordes of vacuous tourists who were seeking something a little more expensive but no different from Miami Beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ind\">It was to serve such tourists that the Plantation Inn Colony had been built, an enormous complex on twenty acres of lavish grounds, phony colonial buildings, restaurants and snack bars. It was shielded from the road by a high fence. There was a guard in khakis at the gate, a smooth-faced native who saluted each limousine of tourists as it arrived from the airport.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr style='margin: 30px 0; border-top: 1px solid #eee;'>\n<p style='text-align:center;'>Read the full book by downloading it below.<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/download-is-starting\/?url=https%3A\/\/mega.co.nz\/%23%211sQQTCza%21et3EV6GHXotdH0YK3jRnZKy25JNTIolYfzxC7XIBVTA' class='download-btn' target='_blank'>DOWNLOAD EPUB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Preview STARTING IN THE EARLY DAWN light, he had driven up into the mountains, leaving the flat sprawl of Kingston behind him. He had cut through the tiny mountain villages, the native huts perched precariously beside the road; then down through lush valleys of tropical vegetation, damp in the misty morning wetness; and finally &#8230; <a title=\"Grave Descend &#8211; Crichton, Michael\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/grave-descend-crichton-michael\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Grave Descend &#8211; Crichton, Michael\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[180],"class_list":["post-3334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-michael-crichton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}