Desperate government officials are looking for a cure for 'Gets, a terrible plague afflicting people of every age all over the world. In their quest, they have built a research lab, called Trieste, eight miles deep at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean where cell- regenerating glutinous matter, dubbed ambrosia, has been discovered. One of the three scientists, Dr. Clayton Nelson, in the undersea lab sends a message that he desperately needs his brother Luke's assistance, then all communication is lost.
Veterinarian Luke Nelson never really got along with his older brother Clayton, a brilliant and obsessive scientist, so why is Clayton asking for his help now? Whatever the reason, Luke feels obligated to answer the summons, especially since nothing has been heard from the three scientists for several days.
Luke boards Trieste after a nerve-wracking descent into the deepest, darkest realm of the ocean, and soon finds himself in a living nightmare. With one scientist dead and another locked in his personal lab, Clayton makes it clear he does not need Luke for anything and would never have sent for him. Clayton is so intent on finding a way to harness the ambrosia that he is totally disconnected from everything else. Almost immediately, Luke starts experiencing horridly vivid nightmares as he flips in and out of memories of his past. Is he experiencing delusions or fabrications of his feverish brain? As one gruesome catastrophe after another occurs, Luke is convinced something evil in the ocean's depth is manipulating the humans and the undersea facility is doomed.
Nick Cutter's THE DEEP will have readers holding their breath with each new disturbing element added to the progression of the gruesome storyline. Even if you are not claustrophobic, you will feel the walls closing in as the terror mounts to a staggering crescendo. Horror fans will relish this psychological thriller laden with terrifying scenes of carnage. THE DEEP is definitely not for the squeamish.
From the acclaimed author of The Troopβwhich
Stephen
King raved βscared the hell out of me and I couldnβt put
it
downβ¦old-school horror at its bestββcomes this utterly
terrifying novel where The Abyss meets The
Shining.
A strange plague called the βGets is decimating humanity
on
a global scale. It causes people to forgetβsmall things at
first, like where they left their keysβ¦then the not-so-
small things like how to drive, or the letters of the
alphabet. Then their bodies forget how to function
involuntarilyβ¦and there is no cure. But now, far below the
surface of the Pacific Ocean, deep in the Marianas Trench,
an heretofore unknown substance hailed as βambrosiaβ has
been discoveredβa universal healer, from initial reports.
It may just be the key to a universal cure. In order to
study this phenomenon, a special research lab, the
Trieste,
has been built eight miles under the seaβs surface. But
now
the station is incommunicado, and itβs up to a brave few
to
descend through the lightless fathoms in hopes of
unraveling the mysteries lurking at those crushing depthsβ¦
and perhaps to encounter an evil blacker than anything one
could possibly imagine.
Part horror, part psychological nightmare, The Deep
is a novel that fans of Stephen King and Clive Barker
wonβt
want to missβespecially if youβre afraid of the dark.
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