Search - Deep Storm

A fairly good read. I usually enjoy this author a great deal. However, the plot-line in this book is quite weak, and doesn't come together until the last few pages, and then still very weakly.

Best known as the coauthor (with Douglas Preston) of such bestselling thrillers as Dance of Death, Child delivers a well-crafted and literate science fiction thriller, his third solo effort (after 2004's Death Match). 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 The Ice Limit.

Menace is everywhere as naval doctor Peter Crane investigates mysterious illnesses at an even more mysterious underwater research facility in the North Atlantic. The scientists say they're excavating long-lost Atlantis, but Crane suspects that something weirder and more dangerous is under way. Thank goodness for narrator Scott Brick, who offers both equanimity and tension in his reading, which intensifies the drama while keeping the complex plot clear (if not believable). He also adds color through subtle characterizations of everyone from straight-ahead military types to obsessed researchers and truly creepy secret agents. I wished that the scary types didn't always speak so deliberately, but that's a very minor quibble in this well-performed entertainment.

Great book by one of my favorite authors. Scientist gets recruited to go down to a dig in the ocean that goes to the center of the earth. What is down there? Although sometimes he gets alittle too wordy in places its all in all a great book. Fast read! You will enjoy the adventure.

Ehh... this was another book recommended based on my love of Frank Schatzing's_The Swarm_ - and while there are some similarities, nothing of the good of that book made it into this one. Maybe because it was a lot more masculine...I'm not really sure.I think I mostly didn't like it because it turned out NOT to be about Atlantis, like it was set up to be from the beginning. Also, there were some holes in the plot. I'm going to give this one to my dad to read because I think he'll enjoy it.