Deep Storm - Jeremy Logan

Zusatztext Praise for Lincoln Child and Deep Storm “Fast paced. . . . Page-turning action.” — The Denver Post   “Clever. . . . A sci-fi mystery thriller.” — San Jose Mercury News “His characters are first-rate , as is his writing.”— The Washington Post Book World “Thrilling and tantalizing. . . . A fascinating riddle . . . exhilarating.” —— VINCE FLYNN, New York Times bestselling author of Protect and Defend “Harrowing and brilliantly conceived.” —— CLIVE CUSSLER, #1 New York Times bestselling author “A slick, savvy, intelligent thriller with a scary, sticks-in-your-brain climax.” —— STEVE BERRY, New York Times bestselling author of The Templar Legacy   “ Imaginative and filled with wonder . Lovers of deep-sea adventure . . . will want to plunge into this one.”—Booklist   “The genius-touched Child writes paragraphs of polymathic detail... Terrific writing .”— Kirkus (starred review)   “Child delivers a well-crafted and literate science fiction thriller .”— Publishers Weekly Informationen zum Autor Lincoln Child  is the author of  Death Match, Deep Storm, Terminal Freeze, The Third Gate,  and  The Forgotten Room,  as well as co-author, with Douglas Preston, of numerous  New York Times  bestsellers, including  Blue Labyrinth, White Fire, Cold Vengeance,  and  Relic . He lives with his wife and daughter in Morristown, New Jersey. Klappentext In this explosive new 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. Leseprobe 1 It looked, Peter Crane thought, like a stork: a huge white stork, rising out of the water on ridiculously delicate legs. But as the helicopter drew closer and the distant outline sharpened against the sea horizon, the resemblance gradually fell away. The legs grew sturdier, became tubular pylons of steel and pre–stressed concrete. The central body became a multi–level superstructure, studded with flare stacks and turbines, festooned with spars and girders. And the thin, neck–like object above resolved into a complex crane-and-derrick assembly, rising several hundred feet above the superstructure. The pilot pointed at the approaching platform, held up two fingers. Crane nodded his understanding. It was a brilliant, cloudless day, and Crane squinted against the bright ocean stretching away on all sides. He felt tired and disoriented by travel: commercial flight from Miami to New York, private Gulfstream G150 charter to Reykjavik, and now helicopter. But the weariness hadn’ t blunted his deep—and growing—curiosity. It wasn’t so much that Amalgamated Shale was interested in his particular expertise: that he thought he could understand. It was the hurry with which they’d wanted him to drop everything and rush out to the Storm King platform that surprised him. Then there was the fact that AmShale’ s forward headquarters in Iceland had, rather oddly, been bustling with technicians and engineers rather than the usual drillers and roughnecks. And then there was the other thing. The helicopter pilot wasn’t an AmShale employee. He wore a Navy uniform—and a sidearm. As the chopper banked sharply around the side of the platform, heading for the landing zone, Crane realiz...

Product details

• Authors: Lincoln Child
• Publisher: Anchor Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 19.07.2011
• EAN: 9780307946720
• ISBN: 978-0-307-94672-0
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 203 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Jeremy Logan Series; Jeremy Logan; Jeremy Logan Series
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature