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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9781400095476
ISBN number: 1400095476
Label: Anchor
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Quantity: 1
Page Count: 432
Printing Date: February 26, 2008
Publishing house: Anchor
Release Date: February 26, 2008
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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.
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Dr. Peter Crane has been rushed to a top secret military installation located two miles below the ocean's surface. His job? To determine what is causing the men and women aboard the Deep Storm station to slowly go insane. As he struggles to diagnose the problem (and find a cure), Crane begins to uncover a conspiracy within the station: the research and excavation going on has the potential to change the world...if it doesn't kill everyone aboard Deep Storm first...
"Deep Storm" is an engaging thriller; I was turning pages left and right. Lincoln Child is a fine author (though I still think his best stuff is written with co-writer Douglas Preston--the same can be said of Preston himself, btw), and puts a unique spin on a tired genre; the last hundred pages are an astounding blend of revelations (you won't see it coming, I promise) and suspenseful encounters. However, that doesn't completely save "Deep Storm." It almost feels like a rip-off of Crichton's "Sphere" in spots (though Child is, arguably, a stronger writer/storyteller). And the characters aren't fleshed out enough: it's the good, politically naive scientists battling the evil, all-powerful military officers who, for men of their rank and experience, have surprisingly little common sense. Plus there are several plot holes that just cause you to scratch your head: a character survives both a contained, severe fire AND instant decompression, simply so he can utter a key word right before he finally dies. There is even an important character who completely disappears from the story--and another who is built up as a great mystery, but is never explained.
Such characterization and plot flat-lining is confusing; Child is much better than that. His works with Preston are among the best and smartest contemporary fiction being written; his very first solo outing, "Utopia," was almost brilliant. This leaves "Deep Storm" feeling somewhat shallow and disappointing. It's certainly a nice read--suspensful, clever in spots, always engaging--but, unlike Child's other works, it doesn't stay with you afterwards. It's something to read, and then put away. And coming from an author as talented as Lincoln Child, that's a major disappointment.
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Lincoln Child books are always a good escape reading. This one is no different. Suspense, action and a high technology environment. If you enjoyed previous novels like "Utopia", you'll have a great time with this one.
This time action happens in an underwater facility, with a certain "Abyss" touch.
Great summer/weekend read. Not as good as the Pendergast novels he writes together with Douglas Preston, but good anyway.
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Storm King Drilling Platform - off the coast of Scotland
During a routine cleaning of the pipes leading down to the oil field more than two miles below the storm-driven surface of the North Sea, Storm King's crew encounters a magnetic anomaly of such significance that all drilling stops and a top secret investigation, which includes the creation of a huge underwater city, begins. But all is not well. Workers become ill, no two have the same symptoms, and Doctor Peter Crane, expert in the diagnosis and treatment of pressure-related illness, is summoned to investigate.
After being forced to sign three seperate non-disclosure statements and an official secrets act affidavit, Crane is permitted to descend to the upper levels of the submerged station, where he is told an archaeological dig is taking place that may lead to, "the scientific discovery of all time."
As Crane begins to investigate the mysterious illnesses, he slowly learns he hasn't been told the whole truth. Wading through layers of lies, deceipt, suspicion, and fanaticism, he arrives at a stunning question: Could an alien species have used earth as a dumping ground for toxic waste?
Struggling to uncover the truth, he finds his way down to the actual drilling operation, but will there be time? A ruthless military man will stop at nothing to claim the discovery for America, and a hidden assasin has put in place a plan to destroy the facility and everyone in it.
Deep Storm is as credible as any work that supposes the co-existence of alien beings, and more so than a great many others. Although the characterizations are thin and somewhat typed, and some of the interplay feels contrived, making it hard to identify with the hero, I found the concept fresh and the read enjoyable.
Recommended for those who like extreme adventure.
Art Tirrell is the author of 2007'sThe Secret Ever Keeps
"Simply put, the best underwater scenes I've ever read." Reviewer Meg W.
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Dr. Peter Crane, ex-military, experienced in submarine environments, graduate of Mayo Medical School, is called to the Storm King Oil Platform off the coast of Greenland. Having experience in classified projects, he's offered a position in the secret Exploratory and Recovery Facility (ERF) ten thousand feet beneath the oil platform. Amalgamated Shale own the rig, and Dr. Howard Asher, chief scientist of the Nation Oceanic Agency is extending the offer, quoting Dr. Crane's amazing ability to isolate and treat medical pressure problems as Crane did on the submarine he worked on. Joining him is Dr. Roger Corbett and Dr. Michele Bishop, all under the direction of Admiral Spartan and Commander Korolis.
The Deep Storm Oil Platform is a decoy, as they are no longer drilling for oil. Underneath the ocean, they've made the most exciting archeological discovery of all time. There's something in the ground, the ocean floor, beneath the drilling site; something alien that baffles the scientific and military communities. It's rumored that the lost city of Atlantis has been discovered. But Dr. Crane hasn't been called in for archeology, his job is to discover why several workers in the ERF are suffering from multiple unrelated symptoms, both physiological and psychological. Admiral Spartan tells Crane, "It's not enough to just learn what's making people sick. You have to keep them healthy." As Crane works the medical problems, he realizes he needs acess to the restricted areas of the facility.
Dr. Asher answers some of his questions by showing him classified material already found in the dig, a small iridescent, multi-colors cube with a bright beam of light extending always upward, which he calls "the sentinels". The Sentinels are sending out indecipherable signals. Nothing seems right with the facility; the medicals problems don't add up and the signals from the sentinels don't make sense. Once Spartan grants Crane acess to the restricted areas, and Crane meets Dr. Hui Ping, the mystery intensifies as Crane and Ping discover a correlation between the two separate enigmas. Time is running out, and a critical collision between science and military is inevitable as the mysteries unravel.
'Deep Storm' contains a lot of intrigue once you get into it. The novel unfortunately starts out slow, but once you get past that part the pace picks up and the twists and turns begin. It's like the author used filler in the buildup before unleashing the meat of the story. Regrettably, because of this approach, the characters never quite flesh out to become real people. The writing is mildly generic with no real pizzazz to it. The climax, however, and the finally solved mystery are brilliant and terrifying.
If your into underground or undersea adventures, pick up 'The Decent' by Jeff Long, 'Earthcore' by Scott Sigler, and 'The Sphere' by Michael Crichton. 'Deep Storm' is an adequate addition to fill out your bookshelves with the previous mentioned novels. Though disappointed with the slow start and torn between a 3 star and a 4 star rating, I gave 'Deep Storm' the benefit of the doubt at 4 stars because the last half of the book is really quite good. Enjoy!
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that half the readers gave it 5 stars! I gave it 2 stars because it was'nt quite bad enough to stop reading half-way through.
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