Deep Fathom

Rating:
Summary: not all that impressive
Review: I have read previous Rollins books and thought they were really good, so I bought this one thinking it would be as good as the others. I was wrong. This book is too deeply involved in science and history. There were a few really good action parts and a few cool murders but besides that it was mostly boring. so if you like really fast-paced, action packed, suspense filled, adrenaline rush books check out Amazonia, but in my opnion skip over this one.

Rating:
Summary: Saving the world from the brink of destruction
Review: 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:
Summary: Saving the world from the brink of destruction
Review: 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.