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 during the increasingly tense novel. By the time you've finished Deep Storm, you'll realize it has very little in common with Crichton's novel other than what would amount to a paragraph description.

Reads like any other Preston-Child book of awesomeness, with that Crichton/Cussler feel.