Deep Storm

Right before this book I read FULL WOLF MOON, the 5th book in the Jeremy Logan series. I liked it so much that I downloaded the other four books in the series, with DEEP STORM showing as the first. Well, out of this whole lengthy book, Jeremy Logan is mentioned on one, maybe two, pages.

That clarified, I really did enjoy this offering from author Lincoln Child.

Retired Naval Dr. Peter Crane is summoned to the Storm King oil platform forty miles offshore from Greenland. He finds that his particular background is perfect for a Top Secret operation going on on the sea floor under Storm King. The military has spared no expense in preparing an underwater research/excavation facility in that location. And Dr. Crane had to sign a multitude of non-disclosure statements to even descend to the facility, which the crew has named DEEP STORM.

There was a lot of science thrown at the reader throughout the book but the author did a great job of breaking it down into small parts and explaining it. Dr. Crane was the protagonist of the story and he found his role in the project confusing at times (as did I) but that evened out probably halfway through the book.

The story was exciting and (semi) believable but it did kind of bog down in the middle of the book.

I like underwater stories, adventure stories, thriller stories, and stories of the Arctic, Antarctic, Greenland or Iceland so this book fit these categories very well. I’m going to read TERMINAL FREEZE next, the second book in the Jeremy Logan series, and hopefully Logan will make more of an appearance.

I figure if youve made it this far, you already know with the plot is about, so I wont waste your time with that.

There are a lot of Journey to the bottom of the sea, or journey into space, etc. books. And in those books everyone usually encounter something bad and cant get away. End of plot.

But Mr. Child has taken the premise up a few notches! He gives us good character development and really fleshes everybody out. Nothing bothers me more than flat characters. You know what I mean, if you go 30 pages without reading their name you have to flip back to remember who they were. He gives us memorable characters who each have their own stories.

There are about 3 or 4 plot lines going on throughout the book, but it never feels like too many and he wraps them all up by the end of the book. I dont know about you, but I hated when plot lines feel forced and summer forgotten by the end of the book.

There are numerous things at play in the book and he seems to balance them perfectly. There is a study feeling of suspense and paranoia which makes you want to stay up and read all night.

I would definitely recommend this and all of his other books to anyone who enjoys a good thriller!

The quality I usually expect from Preston and/or Child. I hesitated a little after first starting this book because I knew I had recently read a novel about an oil rigger in the North Atlantic which was a cover for something going on beneath and I thought maybe I had already read it. No, this was wonderfully different and so much better than the other book (can’t remember its title offhand). Peter Crane is led to believe one thing, then another and finally the truth about what is happening at the bottom of the ocean’s floor. There is so much security that the reader gets the feeling that it is not necessarily good but that there may be some kind of cover-up. Peter is a Doctor who is brought in to help figured out what is causing the strange sicknesses taking place among the crew. He is like a detective, hunting for the commonality to these illnesses which vary so much that there seems to be nothing in common. Because of the security, at times his hands are tied and has to weigh his signed non-disclosure agreements against the danger that may be present. He walks a fine line between being loyal to his own military allegiance and his desire to help save people. I like all the twists in this book as the reader too is trying to figure out what is really going on in the “facility” under the drilling site. Kept me on the edge of my seat and was brought to an understandable conclusion. One thing I liked was that although there were technical aspects to what was going on, it was more suspense than science fiction so the technology was not too involved for me to understand it.

I literally finished the book today in a doctor’s office. I enjoyed the story, the lead protagonist was interesting. The characters around him were quite good although he never flushed them out fully. There was one really interesting character that had about four sentences in the book and at first I thought he was an hallucination but it turned out he was real. The plot line was OK. You saw through the original plot immediately and assumed it was something else. I think every reader will do that. It turned out to be something completely unexpected, and it is nice to be fooled, although I doubt anyone could have seen it coming. My only problem with the book is that many people, including both heroes and villains die in this book and it would have been nice to go into a little more detail. You just hear that this one died, then that one died, than another one died. I would have liked to hear a bit about how they died and what their last thoughts were. It is like those movies that don’t want an R rating so remove all the violence. That was a small thing but after the third or fourth death it became noticeable. In conclusion, I liked it enough to buy another one that featured the same main character.

Great plot, well executed – I couldn’t put the book down and read the whole book in one sitting. You need to enjoy books with a slight science fiction slant and be prepared to suspend belief to an extent. Was the first book I’d read by Douglas Preston and \ or Lincoln Child. Since then, I’ve gone on to buy and read everything these guys have written. There’s not really a bad book in them. First 4 parts of the Agent Predergast series are particularly worth reading as is The Ice Limit and some of the other standalone books.

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