Deep Storm (Jeremy Logan, #1)

by Lincoln Child

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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.