Twelve-thousand feet beneath the Atlantic Ocean . . .
scientists are excavating the most extraordinary undersea discovery ever made. But is ... read full description
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Dec 14, 2009
kingshearte
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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 t
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Aug 03, 2009
Darlene
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From the back cover: “Lincoln Child’s novels are both thrilling and tantalizing, always managing to stay one step ahead of readers’ expectations. DEEP STORM hatches a fascinating riddle that refuses to unravel until the final exhilarating page.” ~ Vince Flynn, New York times bestselling author of Act of Treason
Mr. Flynn’s words were the deciding factor in my selection of this book. The ‘fascinating riddle’ was my expectation. I wasn’t disappointed.
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Mr. Flynn’s words were the deciding factor in my selection of this book. The ‘fascinating riddle’ was my expectation. I wasn’t disappointed.
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Oct 31, 2011
Hayden
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This was another hand-me-down airport novel donated from the lovely mother. Here's the deal with Deep Storm: while reading it, I felt super conflicted. It was written really well, the story was interesting enough, and the plot moved at a whiplash-breakneck-pace, yet I couldn't have wanted to put it down more. Seriously. My extreme need to drop this book where I stood (or, more accurately, sat) was immeasurably high, for an inexplicable reason. But I did.
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In Deep Storm, there was a lot More...
May 16, 2011
Jacobi
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I teetered between giving this 3 or 4 stars, but settled on 4 because I was dying to know what happened next in the story all the way up until the end. The premise of Deep Storm starts with the oil riggers mistakenly discovering the lost City of Atlantis, and our hero Peter Crane (ex-naval doctor and ultimate do gooder white hat) is sent to the under water excavation complex to investigate an illness outbreak. Like any good thriller/mystery, the plot twists and turns plenty of times from there l
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Nov 08, 2010
Waven
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I would like to give this book 3.5 stars. Like any good roller coaster, this tense, atmospheric ride begins with a promising lurch of a takeoff followed by a measured climb up a steep grade. And you know there's nowhere to go but down ... in this case way down, all the way to the ocean floor and a large, secret facility peopled with as many armed guards as researchers. With some unknown kind of sickness afflicting the facility's inhabitants, a doctor with naval training and submarine experien
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Jul 28, 2011
Nice work by Lincoln Child! The premise is pretty exciting and the setting is unique. It's a little hard to imagine the scale of the structures in the book, however hard Child tries to explain it! It is probably too large to assimilate and that gives the book a sense of surrealism...and you're not sure whether to believe it all or not. (In my case, it was 'not'!) A good, exciting read that will keep you guessing about the secrets that are hidden inside the Earth. And the last bit is simply chill
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Feb 22, 2011
Brian
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There are going to be some obvious comparisons between this book and Michael Crichton's Sphere. Well, I loved both, each for their own story. While both deal with a mix of military & scientists deep underwater investigating a mysterious artifact, with tons of plot twists, each tale is presented differently.
Ultimately, Child's novel is less personal and more epic. There are quite a number of characters and sub-plots, textbooks worth of scientific information being thrown at you d More...
Ultimately, Child's novel is less personal and more epic. There are quite a number of characters and sub-plots, textbooks worth of scientific information being thrown at you d More...
Dec 17, 2009
Rachel
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Lincoln Child's latest solo book. It takes place thousands of miles under the ocean in a government-funded, super secret, super dangerous scientific mission...and something is going awry. Typical Child.
I didn't like it as much as past solo stuff. But its obviously gripping.
I didn't like it as much as past solo stuff. But its obviously gripping.
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Feb 06, 2010
Jason
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"Deep Storm" is a solid and serviceable techno/scifi-thriller. The characters are not deep, but the story is both engaging and exciting, and I was very motivated to read it all the way through.
Lincoln Child's story is of a secret submerged deep water facility built to uncover a mysterious energy source. Dr. Crane is asked to join the effort in order to uncover a series of illnesses sweeping through the employees of the facility (scientists and military).
I've rea More...
Lincoln Child's story is of a secret submerged deep water facility built to uncover a mysterious energy source. Dr. Crane is asked to join the effort in order to uncover a series of illnesses sweeping through the employees of the facility (scientists and military).
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May 29, 2011
Scott
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This is one of those books I hated myself for liking. On the surface (as it were, since the action takes place at the bottom of the ocean), the story seemed silly for a while. Yet it's one of those stories that the more you read it, the more you just keep reading it.
By the time "Deep Storm" kicks in for real, it doesn't let you go. Dialog is a little stiff, but are you really reading a deep-sea action/adventure yarn for the dialog?
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By the time "Deep Storm" kicks in for real, it doesn't let you go. Dialog is a little stiff, but are you really reading a deep-sea action/adventure yarn for the dialog?
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Aug 13, 2011
Stephanie
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Miles below the North Atlantic Ocean, Dr. Peter Crane is summoned to identify a mysterious illness plaguing the workers at a research station. The huge facility is 12-stories high but has a lot of secret off-limit areas. The remoteness of the facility adds tension to the story.
Although initially recruited to identify the illness, the main plot is the question of what is underneath the surface floor of the ocean where the researchers are digging. As in any new work environment, Dr. Crane ha More...
Although initially recruited to identify the illness, the main plot is the question of what is underneath the surface floor of the ocean where the researchers are digging. As in any new work environment, Dr. Crane ha More...
Jul 04, 2011
Stephanie
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12 000 Fuß unter der Meeresoberfläche - In den Tiefen des Atlantik machen Wissenschaftler eine unglaubliche Entdeckung. Doch ist es wirklich der größte archäologische Fund aller Zeiten – oder womöglich der schrecklichste? Als der ehemalige Marinearzt Peter Crane auf die Bohrinsel "Storm King" beordert wird, ahnt er noch nicht, was ihn dort erwartet. Kurz nach seiner Ankunft stellt sich heraus, dass die Plattform nur Tarnung für ein geheimes Forschungsunternehmen ist: Man vermutet, in
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May 20, 2010
Rebecca
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Lincoln Child blew me away with this one. I'm a huge, huge fan, and I've always loved his solo-novels, but this one has to be my favorite of his.
This book is pretty sneaky. It likes to smirk a bit when it leads you astray, and then laugh in your face when you find out the plot has twisted. I had my theories, from page one, and said theories changed, morphed, were pulled apart, thrown away, re-born, etc... and I still got surprised in the end.
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This book is pretty sneaky. It likes to smirk a bit when it leads you astray, and then laugh in your face when you find out the plot has twisted. I had my theories, from page one, and said theories changed, morphed, were pulled apart, thrown away, re-born, etc... and I still got surprised in the end.
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Sep 12, 2011
Tracy
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This one is okay. I like Child best when he co-writes with Douglas Preston. Anyway, in this one Dr. Crane is sent to help out on an underwater secret facility because the workers have begun to experience a series of illnesses, some physical and some mental. He's told when he arrives that Atlantis has been found. But it turn out no one is sure what they may have found and be digging toward in the earth's core area. The military vs the scientist is a familiar theme and plays out well here. In the
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Feb 11, 2010
Victoria
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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 a lot mo
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Feb 27, 2010
Melissa
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Another page-turning science thriller from the coauthor of the Pendergast series, among others. Dr Peter Crane is summoned to a remote drilling platform in the North Atlantic to treat an unusual medical condition that has appeared among the crew of a project called Deep Storm. Two years earlier, the drilling program had been secretly suspended after unusual data emerged from the deep-sea sensors. Fans of the Preston-Child thrillers know what to expect here -- heroic scientists, military coveru
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Jan 17, 2009
Derek
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Well plotted thriller, a cleverly conceived story about a deep-sea drilling crew that inadvertently discovers an artifact below the sea floor--in fact, below the Earth's crust.
It was a quick and entertaining read, even with a smattering of technical information. Thankfully, unlike Tom Clancy, Lincoln Child doesn't feel compelled to explain in step by step detail how to build, for example, the super-secret high-tech equipment used to burrow through the Earth's crust.
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It was a quick and entertaining read, even with a smattering of technical information. Thankfully, unlike Tom Clancy, Lincoln Child doesn't feel compelled to explain in step by step detail how to build, for example, the super-secret high-tech equipment used to burrow through the Earth's crust.
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May 26, 2010
Lanie
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A slow start. It looks like it's about finding lost Atlantis, but it's really about something else - and the characters weren't that interesting (especially up against people like Agent Pendergast) and the plot wasn't that interesting. It seemed that it took Mr. Child a while to get to the plot - perhaps he got lost as well? It looked like it was a good premise, but ended up turning into a Mount Dragon for me - waste of time. I don't recommend it, even though I'm an avid reader of most of his bo
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Jun 06, 2011
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May 12, 2010
Jason
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Downloaded this last night to listen to. Could be a cheesefest, but I needed something to listen to while cooking and washing dishes. Scott Brick (the audiobook narrator) can make any lame story sound great.
Finished this last night. It was enjoyable; it got me through the dishes. I liked the reveal of the Big Artifact. And Brick gave it his all. The story, however, was pretty much by the numbers. I knew approximately what the next plot development would be at each crucial turn. Remi More...
Finished this last night. It was enjoyable; it got me through the dishes. I liked the reveal of the Big Artifact. And Brick gave it his all. The story, however, was pretty much by the numbers. I knew approximately what the next plot development would be at each crucial turn. Remi More...
Apr 27, 2010
Ryan
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It is a decent reality-based science fiction story. There were some good surprises, especially one at the end, that gave the plot unexpected twists. However, the characters are always putting themselves in precarious situations. I can't count how many times a character discovered an important secret or made a life-or-death realization only to either keep it to himself or plan a secret meeting hours later with only one other person. So it is never really a surprise when those meetings don't turn
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Mar 09, 2011
Marti
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Adventure books, fiction or nonfiction, have always attracted me. Sometimes while reading them, I think--I could do that, or more often, no way would I try that. This book seemed mostly credible. The main character, a former Navy doctor, takes on a short term assignment to figure out why members of a deeply submerged crew are experiencing strange symptoms. The project is different than it seems, and there is probably some people on board who wish to sabotage it. Whom should he trust? Will
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Oct 06, 2010
Sharon
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Deep Storm didn't live up to my expectations. The novel started out moving at a good pace, with lots of plot theories and mystery, then the story bogged down in technical stuff, codes and what ifs. I didn't quite get the why of the project sabotage, or ultimately, the reason for the dig in the first place. Certainly not the "extraterrestrial" overtones. Undertones? Dr. Crane was an interesting enough character, doggedly stubborn and likeable; Dr. Flyte presented a curious aspect that r
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Aug 05, 2010
Maik
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Atlantis? Ein Raumschiff? Ein Endlager für atomaren Müll? Eine aktive Waffe, geeignet diesen Teil des Universums mit Hilfe zweier umeinander kreisender Schwarzer Löcher aus Materie und Antimatierie zu atomisieren? Was ist es, wonach das unglaubliche Regierungsprojekt in der Tiefsee unterhalb der Erdölplattform Deep Storm bis in die Mohorovičić-Diskontinuität bohrt?Gnädigerweise ist das Ziel der Anstrengungen nicht Atlantis...
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Und ist diese Rezension hier etwa ein Spoiler? Ja, das ist sie! Al More...
Feb 20, 2011
Rai
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Unputdownable thriller!
Deep Storm is one of the best thrillers I've ever read. It has flawless pacing, an incredibly interesting story, an excellent sense of place, non-stop action, and just the right amount of character development. It has a tantalizing touch of the paranormal, a mysterious historical event that keeps surprising and unfolding, along with a great setting. The setting of an offshore oil rig and deepsea lab offers an intimacy of place, exotic to the everyday person, th More...
Deep Storm is one of the best thrillers I've ever read. It has flawless pacing, an incredibly interesting story, an excellent sense of place, non-stop action, and just the right amount of character development. It has a tantalizing touch of the paranormal, a mysterious historical event that keeps surprising and unfolding, along with a great setting. The setting of an offshore oil rig and deepsea lab offers an intimacy of place, exotic to the everyday person, th More...
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Nov 06, 2008
Josh
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This was a fun if predictable story. There were some nice twists and turns, so it made it enjoyable to get to those moments one knew was coming for sure. And knowing those points made the story comfortable and, truthfully, not very complicated or taxing on the brain. While I can't truly say how plausible the science is in this story, there are some great ideas to ponder and think about. And one fantastic surprise that I loved. Here is a quick run down of the story - An underwater science and mil
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Aug 16, 2008
Jennifer (JC-S)
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So, I'm on fast food diet of easy reading at present. This is how I deal with the end of winter and the end of the busiest part of the working year.
I read this novel yesterday: a relatively absorbing page turner with a number of flaws but sufficient action to hold my interest. In the world created by Mr Child, all manner of technical difficulties can be overcome if sufficient money is spent. And in this case, the US Government has been able to solve a number of technical, logistic More...
I read this novel yesterday: a relatively absorbing page turner with a number of flaws but sufficient action to hold my interest. In the world created by Mr Child, all manner of technical difficulties can be overcome if sufficient money is spent. And in this case, the US Government has been able to solve a number of technical, logistic More...
May 11, 2008
Jeremy
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In the book Deep Storm, there is a doctor who is called upon to come to an oil rig in the middle of the ocean to help with some medical reasons. Upon his Arrival he quickly discovers that he is standing on a very secretive military base in which has a hidden base leading to the bottom of the ocean floor. They think that they have discovered the lost city of Atlantis. something however has comeover the crewmen and that's what the doctor is there to help with.
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Mar 07, 2008
Nick
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Lincoln Child’s latest novel is a wonderfully engaging Techo-Thriller. Dr. Peter Crane, a former naval medical officer and submariner, is summoned under a veil of secrecy and deception to the North Sea and the oil rig Deep Storm. Upon his arrival Crane is taken to a highly classified military base resting on the ocean floor where he is led to believe Atlantis has been found. His mission is to discover the cause of a strange sickness that has been affecting the crew and causing a myriad of see
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Jun 16, 2011
Kim
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I thought this was a fast paced awesome read. I got through it in minimal time, mainly b/c I couldn't wait to see what was going to happen next. The main character Dr. Crane was a beautifully written character, while the others were a bit shallow I felt they could have been a little more descriptive, however everything worked out brilliantly. I loved the ending as well, a thought that didnt' quite cross my mind that obviously the author did think of. Loved it! Will definately be reading more of
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