5235 9dadaba8-371c-4166-b18f-9ddae0b4c36d Deep Storm Lincoln Child calibre (0.9.19) [http://calibre-ebook.com] 2007-01-01T06:00:00+00:00 <div><p>In this explosive new thriller, one of the most incredible and frightening discoveries mankind has ever faced is about to surface.On an oil platform in the middle of the North Atlantic, a terrifying series of illnesses is spreading through the crew. When expert naval doctor Peter Crane is flown in, he finds his real destination is not the platform itself but Deep Storm: a top secret aquatic science facility, two miles below on the ocean floor. And as Crane soon learns, the covert operation he finds there is concealing something far more sinister than a medical mystery-and much more deadly.<br></p><p><em>From the Paperback edition.</em></p><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Best known as the coauthor (with Douglas Preston) of such bestselling thrillers as <em>Dance of Death</em>, Child delivers a well-crafted and literate science fiction thriller, his third solo effort (after 2004's <em>Death Match</em>). Peter Crane, a former naval doctor, faces the challenge of his career when he investigates a mysterious illness that has broken out on a North Atlantic oil rig. Sworn to secrecy, Crane is transported from the rig to an amazing undersea habitat run by the military that's apparently pursuing evidence that Atlantis exists. Psychotic episodes among the scientific staff as well as the activities of a saboteur that threatens the project's safety keep Crane busy, even as some of the staff members confront him with concerns that exploring the Earth's core could be fatal to all life on earth. Crisp writing energizes a familiar plot, which builds to an unsettling climax with echoes of Child and Preston's <em>The Ice Limit</em>. <br>Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>From Booklist</h3><p>Peter Crane, a naval physician, flies out to an oil rig to investigate what appears to be the first appearance of an incredibly virulent disease. But when he gets there, he discovers that the problem is even worse than he was led to believe. The disease is attacking the residents of a deep-water research facility, not the oil workers, and it could be linked to the facility's excavations of an ancient site that might hold the key to the fate of the lost city of Atlantis. Child, whose stand-alone novels generally are not quite as good as the series novels he cowrites with Douglas Preston, turns the tables here, setting his hook in the first couple of pages and slowly reeling the reader in. The prose may be a tad rough, but the story is imaginative and filled with wonder. Lovers of deep-sea adventure (and in particular fans of the James Cameron movie <em>The Abyss </em>or Michael Crichton's novel <em>Sphere</em>, 1987) will want to plunge into this one. <em>David Pitt</em><br><em>Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved</em></p></div> Anchor 030794672X OKEX8mPxQwkC 9780385515504 B000W94HE4 B000W94HE4 c/lincoln-child/deep-storm w/deep-storm-lincoln-child/1100265343 7287301 eng Thrillers Fiction