Deep Fathom

Brief Description:"[Rollins] will make your toes curl and your free hand clutch the armchair as you speed through the pages."--Tampa Tribune"James Rollins knows adventure."--Chicago Sun TimesA sensational early work from "one of the most inventive storytellers writing today" (Lincoln Child)--the third pulse-pounding adventure novel from perennial New York Times bestselling thrill-master James Rollins--Deep Fathom is an extraordinary story of desperate survival and mysterious discoveries. The acclaimed creator of Sigma Force seamlessly combines action, science, lore, and breathtaking suspense in this classic tale of a lost civilization and a wondrous journey to a beguiling world beneath the sea. Part Michael Crichton, part Douglas Preston, part Indiana Jones, yet completely, exhilaratingly Rollins, Deep Fathom is an undersea roller coaster ride that never slows down from the first page through the explosive climax. Jacket Description/Back: ON THE DAY EVERYTHING CHANGED FOREVER... The millennium's first eclipse of the sun cast a shroud over the Earth. And then catastrophe struck... ON THE DAY THE END BEGAN... Solar flares have triggered a series of gargantuan natural disasters. Earthquakes and hellfire rock the globe. The death toll rises at an unimaginable rate. And in the midst of chaos, Air Force One and America's president have vanished from the skies. THE SEA REVEALED A MYSTERYEx-Navy SEAL Jack Kirkland surfaces from an aborted underwater salvage mission to find the Earth burning -- and the U. S. on the narrow brink of a nuclear apocalypse. Now, aboard his oceangoing exploration ship, Deep Fathom, Kirkland is on a desperate mission that is leading him to an earth-shattering discovery miles below the ocean's surface. For devastating secrets and a power an ancient civilization could not contain have been cast out into a modern day -- and they will forever alter a world racing toward its own destruction. Review Quotes: "Suspenseful, energetic . . . enjoyable in its loving embrace of adventure novel traditions, its sturdy declarative prose, and its clever delineation of a fantastic setting. . . . It'll make the hours on the beach fly by". -- Publishers WeeklyCommendation Quotes: "A thrilling journey through an underground world of beauty and horror. . . . [It] kept me turning pages well into the night". -- New York Times bestselling author John SaulNotes about Other Books: ALSO AVAILABLE: ExcavationSubterraneanBrief Description: As solar flares and earthquakes wreak havoc upon the Earth, Air Force One and America's president vanish and ex-Navy SEAL Jack Kirkland must embark on a perilous mission below the ocean's surface to save the world from destruction. Marc Notes: Copyright date 2001.; Includes an excerpt from Altar of Eden.; Includes bibliographical references.; As solar flares and earthquakes wreak havoc upon the Earth, Air Force One and America's president vanish and ex-Navy SEAL Jack Kirkland must embark on a perilous mission below the ocean's surface to save the world from destruction. Publisher Marketing: Ex-Navy SEAL Jack Kirkland surfaces from an aborted underwater salvage mission to find the Earth burning. Solar flares have trig-gered a series of gargantuan natural disasters. Earthquakes and hellfire rock the globe. Air Force One has vanished from the skies with America's President on board. Now, with the U. S. on the narrow brink of a nuclear apocalypse, Kirkland must pilot his oceangoing exploration ship, Deep Fathom, on a desperate mission miles below the ocean's surface. There devastating secrets await him--and a power an ancient civilization could not contain has been cast out into modern day. And it will forever alter a world that's already racing toward its own destruction.

Contributor Bio:  Rollins, James James Rollins is the New York Times bestselling author of international thrillers that have been translated into more than forty languages. His Sigma series has been lauded as one of the "top crowd pleasers" (New York Times) and "hottest summer reads" (People magazine). In each novel, acclaimed for its originality, Rollins unveils unseen worlds, scientific breakthroughs, and historical secrets and he does it all at breakneck speed and with stunning insight.