It is the future, and the world is ravaged by a pandemic simply called “the ‘Gets.” It starts with little things: a woman forgets her pin number, or an appointment, or some innocuous thing. Miles beneath the surface, compounded by thousands of pounds of pressure threatening to instantly turn one into human pate, The Deep begins its saga. The ocean can be a cruel and unforgiving place. So, when a copy of this new horror novel arrived in my mailbox, I was intrigued. Why did I read this book: I enjoyed The Troop, Nick Cutter’s first book.

How did I get this book: Review Copy from the Publisher But now the station is incommunicado, and it’s up to a brave few to descend through the lightless fathoms in hopes of unraveling the mysteries lurking at those crushing depths…and perhaps to encounter an evil blacker than anything one could possibly imagine. In order to study this phenomenon, a special research lab, the Trieste, has been built eight miles under the sea’s surface. It may just be the key to a universal cure. But now, far below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, deep in the Marianas Trench, an heretofore unknown substance hailed as “ambrosia” has been discovered-a universal healer, from initial reports. Then their bodies forget how to function involuntarily…and there is no cure. It causes people to forget-small things at first, like where they left their keys…then the not-so-small things like how to drive, or the letters of the alphabet. Genre: Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction, Horrorįrom the acclaimed author of The Troop-which Stephen King raved “scared the hell out of me and I couldn’t put it down.…old-school horror at its best”-comes this utterly terrifying novel where The Abyss meets The Shining.Ī strange plague called the ’Gets is decimating humanity on a global scale. You’ll be entering another world, really and truly.”

Our government has spent thirty trillion dollars on space exploration, and less than 1 percent of that to explore the world underneath us right now. Nelson,” she said, “but that’s like saying that the ice ten thousand feet beneath the arctic icepack is, too.

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