Deep Fathom

New York Times bestselling author James Rollins dives far beneath the waves into unimaginable peril in this classic tale of action and adventure. Ex-Navy SEAL Jack Kirkland surfaces from an aborted underwater salvage mission to find Earth burning. Solar flares have triggered a series of gargantuan natural disasters. Earth-quakes and hellfire rock the globe. Air Force One has vanished from the skies with America's president on board. Now, with the United States 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 that has been cast out into modern day, where it will forever alter a world that's already racing toward its own destruction. See why the Providence Journal-Bulletin calls James Rollins "the modern master of the action thriller" with this classic Rollins tale.

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New York Times bestselling author James Rollins dives far beneath the waves into unimaginable peril in this classic tale of action and adventure. DEEP FATHOM Ex-Navy SEAL Jack Kirkland surfaces from an aborted underwater salvage mission to find Earth burning. Solar flares have triggered a series of gargantuan natural disasters. Earth-quakes and hellfire rock the globe. Air Force One has vanished from the skies with America's president on board. Now, with the United States 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 that has been cast out into modern day, where it will forever alter a world that's already racing toward its own destruction. See why the Providence Journal-Bulletin calls James Rollins "the modern master of the action thriller" with this classic Rollins tale.

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PRAISE FOR JAMES ROLLINS "The modern master of the action thriller...Nobody does it better." -- Providence Journal-Bulletin "Rollins's main goal is to give readers a good time-something he delivers in spades." -- Chicago Sun times "Mind-boggling. 'What if's' abound in the thrilling novels by James Rollins." -- Sacramento Bee "This guy doesn't write novels-he builds roller coasters." -- Booklist "His books have everything...Rollins is a master of controlled chaos." Fort Worth Star-Telegram "Rollins does his job: thrills promised, then delivered... Propulsive doesn't begin to describe what Rollins achieves." -- Tampa Tribune "He just keeps getting better and better." -- Barnstable Patriot (MA)

About the Author

James Rollins is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of international thrillers. His writing has been translated into more than forty languages and has sold more than 20 million books. The New York Times says, " Rollins is what you might wind up with if you tossed Michael Crichton and Dan Brown into a particle accelerator together." NPR calls his work, " Adventurous and enormously engrossing." Rollins unveils unseen worlds, scientific breakthroughs and historical secrets matched with stunning suspense. As a veterinarian, he had a practice in Sacramento for over a decade and still volunteers at local shelters. Nowadays, Rollins shares his home up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains with his two golden retrievers, Echo and Duncan. He also enjoys scuba diving, spelunking, kayaking, and hiking. Of course, he loves to travel and experience new places around the world, which often inspire his next globe-trotting adventure.

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