I'm even willing to be a reading wimp and have my credibility pushed around by a bully-boy author who stretches things to the limit!īut DEEP FATHOM went way, way beyond those limits and pushed my belief meter well beyond the red zone and right off the scale. I thoroughly enjoy a well-written techno-thriller with lots of slam-bang action pops and bangs, bells and whistles boy-girl action insufferably evil bad guys and lots of Hollywood thrills, chills and heroics thrown in. Kirkland narrowly escapes death avoiding an undersea eruption and lava flow as the Japanese freighter is swallowed into the earth's crust before his very eyes. we can smell a political crisis there, can't we!) Ex-Navy Seal, Jack Kirkland, is on board a deep sea submersible exploring a sunken Japanese vessel reputed to be carrying an enormous hoard of gold bullion when this series of inexplicable disasters shatter the earth's crust.
The cataclysmic forces unleashed by these violent events bring down Air Force One in the middle of the ocean killing the President of the USA and everyone else on board. The first solar eclipse of the millennium and a series of intense solar flares have triggered a monumental series of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides and tsunamis around the entire circumference of the Pacific Ring of Fire. Everything but the proverbial kitchen sink.
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