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Death by hippo is one of just the many gruesome deaths that Andy McDermott's characters face in his novels. In the most exciting adventure thriller you'll read this year, 

THE HUNT FOR ATLANTIS

'Adventure stories don't get much more epic than this' The Mirror

The quest to uncover the secret civilisation lost for 10,000 years comes with a run of nasty deaths. People, it seems, will do anything to protect the secrets surrounding the mythological city of Atlantis.

So, to celebrate publication, Andy McDermott, former editor of film magazine Hotdog, charts the top three deaths in his debut epic novel...

3: It's a tough life being a corrupt soldier in The Hunt For Atlantis. One finds this out the hard way as he tries to throw hero Eddie Chase out of a speeding locomotive - only for him instead to leap to safety on the back of a carriage on a parallel track a second before the loco smashes headlong into an oncoming train. Of oil tankers. Which then explode.

2: Nor do the bosses of hired goons get off any easier. Not when their escape helicopter gets shot down on its pad, and they fail to watch out for its still-spinning rotors when they stagger from the crashed aircraft. Ouch. There's a very good reason why people don't do Mexican waves at heliports.

1: But for the ultimate in unfortunate helicopter/human being interactions, look no further than the luckless mercenary who has the cable-gun on his back fired directly upwards into the blades of a hovering chopper - and is yanked skywards with rib-cracking force as the cable winds around the rotor shaft. He comes back down to earth soon enough... but in more or less liquid form.

The moral here is: if you're on a dangerous expedition around the world to find a lost civilisation, and you're in the vicinity of a large and expensive mode of transport that has any chance whatsoever of exploding... you might want to consider walking instead.' Andy McDermott

Out now in paperback, priced at £6.99 and available at all good bookstores

Following in the tradition of Clive Cussler and Matthew Reilly, Andy McDermott's writing is laden with adventure, and his writing holds a distinctive filmic quality, undoubtedly influenced by all his years in the film business. His writing is also characterised by a brilliant sense of humour leaving you with a guiltless sense of glee when the bad guys get their come uppance!

Nina Wilde believes she has found the location of the lost city of Atlantis and now she wants the opportunity to prove her theory. Someone else though wants her dead!

With the help of ex-SAS bodyguard Eddie Chase and beautiful heiress Kari Frost, Nina faces a breakneck race against time around the world, pursued at every step by agents of the mysterious – and murderous – Brotherhood of Selasphoros. From the jungles of Brazil to the mountains of Tibet, from the streets of Manhattan to the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, the hunt for Atlantis leads to a secret hidden for 11,000 years – which in the wrong hands could destroy civilization as we know it...

From the books of Clive Cussler to the Indiana Jones films, epic adventure thrillers are enjoyed the world over. Centred around the mythical lost city of Atlantis, this debut novel will be a fantastic addition to the genre.

Andy McDermott works as a freelance writer (and occasional cartoonist) and in a previous incarnation was magazine editor for, amongst others, DVD Review and the iconoclastic film magazine Hotdog. Andy was born in West Yorkshire and now writes and lives in Bournemouth.