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DEEP STORM by Lincoln Child Doubleday, January 2007 384 pages $24.95 ISBN: 0385515502 Buy in the UK | Buy in Canada

In the North Atlantic ocean, 40 miles south of Greenland, on a 1000-foot tall drilling platform, an anomaly is discovered during the normal monthly cleaning of the pipes. Twenty months later, ex-submariner Dr Peter Crane is flown out to the Storm King platform under conditions of deepest secrecy. The government has taken over the facility and workers are becoming ill, both mentally and physically.

There are a few men on the surface but the real action is taking place in The Facility, which is 10,000 feet below. Going down in a bathyscaphe, Crane learns that apparently Atlantis has been discovered and is being excavated. He finally reaches the work site which is 12 decks high. Crane is given access to only the top six levels. He is not cleared for work below that. However, when serious illness strikes the lower stories of The Facility, Crane is sent down to investigate.

The earth's magnetic field switches polarity once every several thousand years, yet the bedrock around the drill bit shows no polarity changes. It is determined that it can be no more than 600 years old. So it is not Atlantis that the US Military is seeking beneath the floor of the ocean. What are they searching for and will it mean the end of civilization?

Lincoln Child, along with Douglas Preston, has written several best-selling thrillers. This is his third book written without his partner, and although it doesn't quite match up to the latest of the Preston and Child books, it is well worth a look. DEEP STORM is the best of the books he has written by himself. He has invented a way of living and working two miles below the surface of the ocean and added a complex mystery to the mix. If the characters are all stock figures in black and white, this is really a classic locked room mystery, as well as raising the question, 'Could this happen here?'

Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, February 2007

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