Fathomless by Greig Beck - Cate Granger 1
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Stars Review
From the Book Blurb
CARCHARODON MEGALODON
The largest and most fearsome predator to have ever existed on our planet. Rumors of its existence in our modern oceans have persisted for centuries. Now, in a new adventure, the rumors explode into brutal and terrifying reality.
BARANOF ISLAND, GULF OF ALASKA, 1952
Jim Granger is searching for a place of legend. Known as 'Bad Water' by the island's elders, it's reputed to be home to many dangerous creatures. Through a seam in a cliff face, Jim finds what he seeks. He also finds, too late, that the water demon he was warned about is horrifyingly real.
TODAY
Cate Granger is following in her grandfather's footsteps. Along with a team of scientists and crew, she accidentally releases a creature from Earth's primordial past into today's oceans. The giant Megalodon shark follows its instinct and a genetic memory of a home that once existed millions of years ago along the Californian coast. Nothing is safe on or below the water as the monster stakes its claim on the world's oceans.
Now Cate and her team must do battle with a creature that has no rival, knows no fear, and regards humans as nothing more than prey.
Fathomless
Nearly 50 years ago a gentleman by the name of Peter Benchley wrote a novel about a creature that terrifies a small resort town and the book turned into a cult classic and promoting a fright for water and what lies beneath. The novel made into a movie which spawned sequels and fired up the imagination about the least explored areas on earth, deep water. The book and movie of the same name was Jaws (for people who did not guess till now) and Sharks became the favorite of writers and movie makers as the single minded antagonist more deadly and lethal than an AI backed Terminator with just one agenda, getting to its food.
I had brought this book way back in 2016 when it released because I have been fascinated by creature features and sharks since I read Peter Benchley's Beast when it released in 1991 before I saw Jaws but having already Jurrassic Park.
Somehow Beck's work for me was in the backburner before I read his short novel The Fossil (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44286302-the-fossil ) which blew my mind and made me follow and read his books. Siberian Incident fortified my interest in his books and now I read everyone of his output.
I loved the approach to the story towards launching the Carcharodon Megalodon into the story. the book had other worldly vibes and Beck writes some very good underground monsters, actual and fictional. The virgin underground body of water was a perfect pad.
The story follows Cate Granger, the protagonist, an evolutionary biologist, who follows the path of her grand father who was an original explorer lost while caving in Alaska.
She has posited and discovered an underground body of water that she wants to explore. A significant part of the story continues with the planning for the process and follows a lot of stuff covered in another one of Beck's novels (The First Bird). Once the process is set the true adventure begins and when the cavern is beached, all hell breaks loose. There are creatures which have not walked the earth (or swam the waters of earth) for over a million years and they view humans as nice warm morsels of prime cuts.
The book has all the thrills, reminiscent of the cold war intrigue and Russian vengeance all together in a page turner.
I recommend the book as a rocking read and am in the process of completing the sequel.
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Stars
Recommended
You can also write to firstsutraindia@gmail.com
Goodreads Review here -
https://twitter.com/bookishdramas
https://www.instagram.com/bookishdramas/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088404892842
Comments
Post a Comment