Books : Deep Fathom

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Rating:

- Read his other books first
Well, This book is pretty farfetched. It is on the one one hand why I read it, following my pattern of "serious" and "fun". On the otherhand it had so many unbelievable plot lines and so much license was taken that the usual suspension of belief that accompanies pulp fiction was not even possible. I have read Rollin's two other books and like them both, but I think he strained himself on this one, couldnt come up with appropriate plot lines and hence cheated in writing this book. I can't say I would really reccomend this book, but if you enjoy summer thriller read's check out his other two.

Rating:

- Saving the world from the brink of destruction
Deep Fathom is an imagnative adventure tale that commences when a solar eclipse causing intense solar flare activity triggers a series of worldwide cataclysms. The resulting earthquakes and tidal waves destroy millions and change the landscape of the earth itself.

U.S. president Bishop, escaping the disaster by flying out of Guam in Air Force One is lost over the Pacific as the jet mysteriously plummets to earth.

Jack Kirkland, ex-Navy SEAL, ex-astronaut and sole survivor of a space shuttle accident is presently the skipper of the Deep Fathom. He and his crew are marine salvage experts and treasure hunters. While diving on a wreck containing a hoarde of gold bars in a submersible, Kirkland narrowly misses being consumed by an undersea volcano as a result of the eclipse.

Kirkland and his trusty crew are son commissioned by his previous superior, Admiral Houston to salvage the wreck of Air Force One. While diving on the wreck, he discovers a huge crystal with indecipherable inscriptions amid the pillars of volcanic lava on the ocean bottom that exhibits strange physical properties. A geologist aboard the Deep Fathom determines that Air Force One has fallen in what is known as the Devil's Triangle, an area of lost ships and missing aircraft in the middle of the Pacific.

At the same time the eclipse has caused the upheaval of the ocean bottom near Okinawa exposing the "Dragons", two Mayan-like pyramids. Dr. Karen Grace, an anthropologist and her colleague and Nobel Prize winner in computer science Miyuki Nakano, while exploring the pyramids discover a star shaped crystal with strange markings that also exhibit unusual properties.

While this is all happening vice president Nafe has commissioned devious CIA operative David Spangler to contaminate the Air Force One crash site to make it look like the Chinese sabotaged the plane. Spangler's sister Jennifer, an astronaut and Kirkland's fiance had perished in the shuttle accident. Spangler had never forgiven Kirkland and hated him for it.

These scenarios serve as the backdrop for a fast moving and well conceived story that has a shocking ending. Rollins is a well versed adventure story writer with an expansive imagination.

Rating:

- Saving the world from the brink of destruction
Deep Fathom is an imagnative adventure tale that commences when a solar eclipse causing intense solar flar activity triggers a series of worldwide cataclysms. The resulting earthquakes and tidal waves destroy millions and change the landscape of the earth itself.

U.S. president Bishop, escaping the disaster by flying out of Guam in Air Force One is lost over the Pacific as the jet mysteriously plummets to earth.

Jack Kirkland, ex-Navy SEAL, ex-astronaut and sole survivor of a space shuttle accident is presently the skipper of the Deep Fathom. He and his crew are marine salvage expert and treasure hunters. While diving on a wreck containing a hoarde of gold bars in a submersible, Kirkland narrowly misses being consumed by an undersea volcano as a result of the eclipse.

Kirkland and his trusty crew are son commissioned by his previous superior, Admiral Houston to salvage the wreck of Air Force One. While diving on the wreck, he discovers a huge crystal amid the pillars of volcanic lava on the ocean bottom that exhibits strange physical properties. A geologist aboard the Deep Fathom determines that Air Force One has fallen in what is known as the Devil's Triangle, an area of lost ships and missing aircraft in the middle of the Pacific.

At the same time the eclipse has caused the upheaval of the ocean bottom near Okinawa exposing the "Dragons", two Mayan-like pyramids. Dr. Karen Grace, an anthropologist and her colleague and Nobel Prize winner in computer science Miyuki Nakano, while exploring the pyramids discover a star shaped crystal with strange markings that also exhibit unusual properties.

While this is all happening vice president Nafe has commissioned devious CIA operative David Spangler to contaminate the Air Force One crash site to make it look like the Chinese sabotaged the plane. Spangler's sister Jennifer, an astronaut and Kirkland's fiance had perished in the shuttle accident. Spangler had never forgiven Kirkland and hated him for it.

These scenarios serve as the backdrop for a fast moving and well conceived story that has a shocking ending. Rollins is a well versed adventure story writer with an expansive imagination.

Rating:

- Exciting- a real page turner
I read this book over one weekend, taking breaks only to sleep and go to the gym. The book is too hard to put down. I kept wondering what was going to happen next!

Deep Fathom is packed with great characters: a former Navy SEAL fighting ghosts of his past, an anthropologist seeking evidence of a legendary race of people, a futuristic artifical intelligence computer, and a Vice President,CIA director, and Black Ops SEAL who are power crazed.

While certain scenes (that I wont ruin for future readers) will call to mind James Cameron's "The Abyss," the main plot in Deep Fathom is original enough that it stands on its own and any sign of imitation is surely meant as flattery on the part of Mr. Rollins.

I came across this title by accident, and picked it up because I liked the cover. Not the best reason to choose a book, but in this particular case I found myself pleasantly surprised to discover an author I'd never read or heard of. I will read other works by Mr. Rollins, and pass Deep Fathom on to my novel-reading cronies!

Rating:

- Great entertainment!
I bought this book solely because it was written by James Rollins, and I remembered how very much I had enjoyed his previous book, Subterranean. I must admit I found this to be another action-packed thriller which entertained me thoroughly. It's a near future almost science fiction tale that somehow comes off as entirely believable while you're reading it. If you like high-paced adventure at its best, this book will not disappoint you. It started out just a bit slow, but after a few chapters I was enthralled by the story and remained on the edge of my seat throughout the book. The ending was spectacular! So often, authors fail to tie up loose ends or I am unhappy with the ending situation, but in this case, the ending was as satisfying as the rest of the story.

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