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| Deep Fathom | 
| Author: James Rollins
Publisher: Harper
Category: Book
List Price: $7.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  92 reviews
Sales Rank: 10722
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 480
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0380818809
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780380818808
ASIN: 0380818809
Publication Date: July 1, 2001
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Product Description
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 Mystery
Ex-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.
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 Great Action Adventure November 26, 2008
I have to say that I love James Rollin's books, this one is no different. This story is about Jack Kirkland tarnished hero. He is the survivor of a shuttle explosion that he blames himself for. After an eclipse, the entire Pacific Rim has a series of earthquakes and sudden water level issues, may people die including the president. Jack is called in to dive the wreckage and find the cause.
Mean while, Karen Grace is a Canadian that is studying Asian history. She discovers a strange crystal when the Dragon temples are raised from the water. This crystal has the strange property that the more light that is exposed to it, the lighter its weight is. This is the same crystal that Jack finds next to the wreck of Air Force One.
So begins the fight to keep a Black Ops bad guy, that has it out for Jack, kept from killing Jack and Karen. But also to keep the world from coming to an end with the mysterious new crystal, its properties, and a huge vein of it underwater.
I really like the details that went into this book. It was action packed and kept me from putting it down. I could see where some people could think the ending was a bit blunt and rough, but I still liked it and would recommend it to anyone that likes the Dirk Pitt books.
This is what an action-adventure story should be November 14, 2008
Every so often you just need to get away from it all and read a no-holds-barred, action-oriented, good guy vs bad guy action story. This one fits the bill to a tee.
I have read three other books by Rollins so far and to tell the truth I was starting to get a little worried. The plots seemed to be getting a bit thin (or unrealistic) and the characters a little cliched. But Deep Fathom was a pleasant switch even though it is one of his earlier novels. It kept me turning pages and I cared about the characters. The ending was a bit over the top perhaps and some may consider it to be a cop out by the author (I can't really explain without a spoiler) but my feeling is if you're reading this kind of action novel then you'll be in the right frame of mind for the ending anyway. And you will definitely be satisfied.
Deep Fathom September 24, 2008
This book is by far my favorite. Kind of a Dirk Pitt, Indiana Jones, with a sci-fi twist
 Seriously...buy something else. August 28, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is one of those books that actually inspires me to write a book of my own sometime. I have no formal training as a writer, but I know I could do better than this one.
Other 1 star raters have mentioned to lack of character development, poor plot and other problems and I have to agree. When your main character thinks that all his friends and life posessions are gone and that deeply affects him for about 12 hours, after which he's just dandy again, you have a big problem- just to name one big problem.
I'd write more, but I'm going to get my manuscript off to Harper/Collins.
Another Rollins Hit May 9, 2008
This book is similar to other James Rollins books in that it takes you all over the world to great environments, has a long lost civilization, and has a ton of action with a little bit of sci/fi to it. The book actually made me think at first that the TV show LOST had gotten it's idea from this book. The book starts off with a bang, has some very good character development with Kirkland fighting his past, and ties it all together in the end. Excellent read. I have read 4 James Rollins books so far and I would rate them in this order...Amazonia, Black Order, Deep Fathom, Sandstorm. They have all been excellent in their own way though.
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