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Books	Shadow of the Jaguar The Lost Island Extinction Event Fire and Water
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Authors	Stephen Saville Paul Kearney Dan Abnett Simon Guerrier

The Older Novels are a series of spin-off books based on ITV science fiction series Primeval. They are new adventures, unseen on television (unlike the Younger Storybooks). They feature all the characters from the television series, but often with new creatures. Each book is set between two television episodes. The novels were later released in hardback. For Shadow of the Jaguar and The Lost Island, the images of Nick Cutter and Stephen Hart were replaced with Connor Temple and Abby Maitland, likely to appeal to new fans joining at Series 4.

The main focus of the novels is the concept that anomalies are not limited to just England, and that they can also appear overseas, and anywhere in the world.

Plot Edit

When anomalies begin to appear overseas, the ARC Team often must travel away from England, in order to tackle them. The series starts out directly following the events of Episode 2.3. Cutter has just begun to accept that Jenny is here, and Claudia Brown is gone. For a while, everything seems tranquil, surprisingly. However, when the ADD picks up an anomaly over in Peru, the team must head over there right away, where they discover that a pack of vicious Thylacosmilus is being controlled by a highly-evolved Future Bird. They finally manage to deal with the problem, and head back home. (Shadow of the Jaguar)

However, the confusion certainly does not end there! Next, an enormous magnetic field is detected on Guns Island, off the coast of Ireland. Again, the team is called in to deal with the issue. However, when a pack of Eotyrannus attacks their camp, killing several men, they are then forced to travel through the anomaly, into the Early Cretaceous Period. They survive a Raptor ambush, before heading home. (The Lost Island)

Next, directly after Stephen's death, which the Team is still reeling from, they are forced to deal with an Entelodon incursion, on Oxford Street. However, this attracts the attention of two Russian spies, whom kidnap them and rendit them into Siberia. Once there, they discover that a gargantuan anomaly leading to the Late Cretaceous Period has been opened, and that several dinosaurs, including Troodons, Torosauruses, and T. rexes, have come through it. The team then must deal with the situation, and head back to England. (Extinction Event)

Approximately 1 year afterwards, an anomaly is detected at a Safari Park, in South Africa. Rangers are inexplicably disappearing, and very strange creatures have been seen battling with lions and rhinos. Meanwhile, back in England, a Cretaceous anomaly has opened up, in Maidenhead. A pack of Velociraptors and some Deinosuchus travel through it. Meanwhile, the team is still hurting from Jenny's resignation from the team. However, in the end, the team manage to permanently seal both the South African anomaly, and the Maidenhead anomaly. Then, after that, they head back home, in order to pursue some more local anomalies. (Fire and Water)

BooksEdit

In order, the books are:

• Shadow of the Jaguar (set between Episode 2.3 and Episode 2.4)
• The Lost Island (set between Episode 2.3 and Episode 2.4)
• Extinction Event (set between Episode 2.7 and Episode 3.1)
• Fire and Water (set between Episode 3.5 and Episode 3.6)

CreaturesEdit

• Future Bird (Shadow of the Jaguar)
• Thylacosmilus (Shadow of the Jaguar)
• Badger-like Mammal (The Lost Island)
• Dromaeosaurid (The Lost Island)
• Eotyrannus (The Lost Island)
• Iguanodon (The Lost Island)
• Liopleurodon (The Lost Island)
• Neovenator (The Lost Island)
• Polacanthus (The Lost Island)
• Pterosaur (The Lost Island)
• Allosaurus (mentioned) (The Lost Island)
• Anatotitan (The Lost Island)
• Ankylosaurus (Extinction Event)
• Didelphodon (Extinction Event)
• Dimetrodon (Extinction Event)
• Entelodon (Extinction Event)
• Euparkeria (Extinction Event)
• Pachycephalosaurus (Extinction Event)
• Prehistoric Bird (Extinction Event)
• Prehistoric Mammal (Extinction Event)
• Shrew-like Creature (Extinction Event)
• Torosaurus (Extinction Event)
• Troodon (Extinction Event)
• Tyrannosaurus (Extinction Event)
• Sparrow-sized Pterosaur (Extinction Event)
• Triceratops (mentioned) (Extinction Event)
• Sauroposeidon (Fire and Water)
• Brachiosaurus (mentioned) (Fire and Water)
• Triceratops (Fire and Water)
• Eustreptospondylus (Fire and Water)
• Postosuchus (Fire and Water)
• Velociraptors (Fire and Water)
• Deinosuchus (Fire and Water)
• Sarcosuchus (mentioned) (Fire and Water)
• Tyrannosaurus (mentioned) (Fire and Water)
• Two unidentified Theropods (Fire and Water)

CoversEdit

Shadow of the Jaguar

The Lost Island

Extinction Event

Fire and Water

Shadow of the Jaguar (hardback edition)

The Lost Island (hardback edition)

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