{"id":9329,"date":"2020-07-17T08:34:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T12:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=9329"},"modified":"2021-01-16T12:22:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T17:22:15","slug":"deep-storm-by-lincoln-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/17\/deep-storm-by-lincoln-child\/","title":{"rendered":"“Deep Storm” by Lincoln Child"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Copyright 2007 by Lincoln Child. Published by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This book is strongly reminiscent of the Andromeda Strain<\/em> by Michael Crichton. That is not a bad thing. But where Crichton wrote realistic medical mysteries, this one tiptoes into the sci-fi genre. That surprised me as Child is one of Jett’s favorite authors (I stole this book from her mini-library) and I have never seen her read a sci-fi book before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You have to be willing to believe in aliens to appreciate this book. I don’t believe in aliens – at least not the type that are central to this book – and I have a hard time swallowing some highly improbable engineering feats that are also crucial to this plot – like having a 12-story research facility operating 10,000 feet underwater in the Atlantic. An unpressurized <\/em>facility. I need to find the engineers that were able to built this structure. They can probably figure out a way to make my toilet stop leaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plot? Without giving away more than I already have, I will tell you that the protagonist, Dr Peter Crane, is summoned to this super-secret underwater facility to diagnose a multitude of mysterious illnesses in the hundreds of people working there. As usual, there is tension at the top between the three people running the operation: an admiral who ostensibly is running the whole operation, a general who is focused on the national security aspects and a scientist who is overseeing the scientific research. And, just to stir the pot, add in a saboteur who is intent on destroying the whole operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you can swallow the aliens and the improbable engineering, you might very well enjoy this book. Child is a skilled author. The prose is lively and entertaining and the plot, though ridiculous, is engrossing. On balance, the entertainment value wins out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8 out of 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Copyright 2007 by Lincoln Child. Published by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. This book is strongly reminiscent of the Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton. That is not a bad thing. But where Crichton wrote realistic medical mysteries, this one tiptoes into the sci-fi genre. That surprised me as Child is … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-2qt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9329"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9712,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9329\/revisions\/9712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}