Deep Storm (Jeremy Logan, #1)

by Lincoln Child

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this explosive 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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• ISBN10: 030794672X
• ISBN13: 9780307946720
• Publish Date: 19 July 2011 (first published 1 January 2007)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Imprint: Anchor
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 384
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780307946720

Reviews

[ibeforem]

Lincoln Child is perhaps best known for his partnership with Douglas Preston, writing the Pendergast novels. While those tend to be part crime, part adventure, Child’s solo fare tends to lean more towards science fiction adventure.

Deep Storm follows Dr. Peter Crane, a Naval doctor who has been asked to take on an extraordinary task — go to a facility 2 miles below the ocean surface and identify what is making people ill. While there, he finds that things are not what they seem, and the ramifications could be literally earth-shaking.

I don’t want to say too much about what is actually happening that far below the ocean, but it’s a little bit science fiction, a little bit supernatural. I enjoyed the story, even though I usually don’t care for science-heavy story lines. It helped a lot when the action picked up! I also don’t really understand this books designation as the first of the Jeremy Logan series, because Logan is an extremely minor character in the story.

I generally put Child’s stand-alone work in the same category as Clive Cussler’s — fun adventure stories with a science-y twist.

[empressbrooke]

In Deep Storm, Child hikes up the creativity quite a bit and weaves a tale that I couldn't predict no matter how hard I tried. It starts off with the discovery of Atlantis under the sea, and then it spins of into totally different directions. The end revelation is jarring and unnerving, and I'm pleased that Child had the balls to leave it on such a chilling note. I spent the last fourth of the book reading as quickly as I could, often to the point where I realized I was skipping paragraphs that I had to go back and reread.