Deep Storm by Lincoln Child (2007, Abridged, Compact Disc)

Lincoln Child’s latest offering will have broad appeal among readers of many popular genres. Not only does he manage to incorporate elements of military/espionage novels with mythology and demonology, science-fiction and science fact, medical research and practice, and psychology and computer technology but he does so in a way that teases his readers into blind alleys where they wait, terrified, for unnamed but profound evils still to be revealed. This is an ingenious and very creepy thriller.

Dr. Peter Crane, once a naval officer with experience diagnosing and treating unusual illnesses which can occur among people confined to undersea facilities, is summoned to a top-secret compound two miles below an oil rig in the North Atlantic. There he learns that a monumentally important salvage operation is in progress: the lost continent of Atlantis has been discovered. More and more workers, however, have been manifesting a dangerous array of physical and psychotic symptoms that may jeopardize the mission. Crane quickly finds that the Atlantis operation is only a cover story. But for what? Absolutely nobody seems to know. The wonderful Scott Brick narrates, differentiating his characters and striking and maintaining just the right menacing note. His pacing is superb.