| Deep Storm | 
 enlarge | Author: Lincoln Child
Publisher: Anchor
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  139 reviews
Sales Rank: 30737
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 4 x 1 x 7
ISBN: 1400095476
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781400095476
ASIN: 1400095476
Publication Date: February 26, 2008
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Product Description
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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 Gobble, gobble, gobble- a real turkey! January 8, 2009
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Ugh. Words cannot even begin to describe how bad this book is. I was drawn in by the undersea aspect of this fictional "thriller" and the premise is interesting enough, but I couldn't get past the wooden protagonist and the stereotypical portrayal of all of the military characters as deranged, maniacal sadists bent on destroying the planet. The dialogue was utterly hokey, and I would think that Mr. Child could at least have run his manuscript by someone on active duty or at least formerly in the military who could have corrected such idiocy, such as the repeated use of "Over and out," "Get here on the double" and the numerous inane militaryspeak/jargon that nobody in uniform uses. I should have known better than to stick with this dog when I first read the phony characterizations of those in uniform in the book's first few pages. Not worth the time and effort.
Predictable and fanboyish December 10, 2008
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If it had been marketed as a take-off of a 30s pulp adventure novel, then I would have been OK with it. Admiral 'Spartan' on a trillion-dollar seabed laboratory? Give me a break. Lincoln, you can and have done better.
Great read, great ride... December 10, 2008
This was my first Lincoln Child book and I thought it was great. This book gripped my imagination right from the first chapter and didn't disappoint through the last. Lots to think about throughout.
Interesting read. November 25, 2008
This is the first Lincoln Child book I've read. Pretty interesting. The plot moves along and it does keep you guessing. More sci-fi than I like to read - would be a great movie.
 Well-written and engaging...but not enough depth October 30, 2008
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 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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