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DEEP STORM by Lincoln Child

"Well-plotted techno thriller feels scary and very real."

By: Lincoln Child

Genres: Thriller Political

Posted: December 11, 2006

Peter Crane is between research projects when he gets an unusual request -- join a top-secret team (and sign his life away without knowing anything about the project) because they are having some medical problems that fall within his specialty. When he finds out the team is working in a deep undersea site with a state-of-the-art structure surrounding them, he understands how his skills might be utilized. A former Navy doctor, Peter has worked on subs and understands illnesses that can occur because of various undersea conditions.

But Peter is in no way prepared for the aura of secrecy that surrounds everyone at the station, and he can't find a commonality in the illnesses that are occurring. Some people are being affected psychologically, others emotionally and still others are physically ill. As he delves deeper, and eventually is let in on the big secret, he's overwhelmed by the task before them. Initially told that they have discovered Atlantis, he begins to suspect the true answer might be something that could threaten the whole world.

Child's usual concise, tension-building style and his terrific attention to technological details make this scientific thriller shine. I am one of this author's biggest fans for the books he co-authors with Douglas Preston, and I've just begun to read the books he's written by himself. This is a well-plotted thriller that feels real -- which is a very scary thing. I recommend all of Child's books!

Book Summary

Former naval doctor Peter Crane is urgently summoned to a remote oil platform in the north Atlantic, to help diagnose a bizarre medical condition spreading through the rig. But when he arrives, Crane learns that the real trouble lies far below—on ”Deep Storm,“ a stunningly advanced science research facility built two miles beneath the surface on the ocean floor. The top-secret structure has been designed for one purpose: to excavate a recently discovered undersea site that may hold the answers to a mystery steeped in centuries of myth and speculation.

Sworn to secrecy, Peter Crane descends to Deep Storm. A year earlier, he is told, routine drilling uncovered the remains of mankind’s most sophisticated ancient civilization: the legendary Atlantis. But now that the site is being excavated, a series of disturbing illnesses has begun to affect the operation. Scientists and technicians are experiencing a bizarre array of symptoms—from fatigue to paralysis to violent psychotic episodes. As Crane is indoctrinated into the strange world of Deep Storm, he attempts to discover the cause . . . but he begins to suspect that the covert facility conceals something far more complicated than a medical mystery. The discovery of Atlantis might, in fact, be a cover for something far more sinister . . . and deadly.

Deep Storm by Lincoln Child

Deep Storm

by: Lincoln Child

Doubleday
January 1, 2007
On Sale: January 16, 2007
Featuring: Peter Crane
384 pages
ISBN: 0385515502
EAN: 9780385515504
Hardcover

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