The Depths: An Undersea Thriller

I realize that not everyone served in the Military and even less aboard Submarines. A Corporal is never saluted, ever. He/She is an NCO. This means noncommissioned Officer. Outside of basic training there are only two sets of Military ranks that warrant a salute. Warrant Officers and Commissioned Oficers, The one exception to this is a Congressonal Medal of Honor recipient. On a Submarine the captain is God. Mr Thacker needs to do some more research on his chosen genre.

Available Kindle Unlimited, but got this one thru one of my free book sites. Read also in more mystery less thriller} but enjoyed them. Used ku to read Killer Thrillers: 3 Bestselling Novels which has the Enigma Strain one but also has The Golden Crystal and The Depths in that 3 set. Also had first read 1-3 (Harvey Bennett Thrillers Box Set) which has Enigma Strain, the store Code, Ice Chasm.

Jen Adams, a research assistant, finds that her son has been kidnapped and her boss is brutally murdered, she and her computer programmer husband are thrown into a hunt to find out why.The mystery takes her and a team of British Royal Marines and other scientists deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean -- to a forgotten research station buried under five miles of water in one of the deepest oceanic trenches on the planet. The station has been abandoned for over thirty years, and no one knows what to expect when they get there.As they learn more about the station, however, they find out there's something the base is trying to hide -- something that could prove devastating for the rest of the world...

I loved this book. The only anomaly that bothered me a bit was the housing in the facility. It just didn't seem to fit with the high tech of the rest. Now if that is the best I can come up with as a complaint this is one good book.

Available Kindle Unlimited, but got this one thru one of my free book sites. Read also in more mystery less thriller} but enjoyed them. Used ku to read Killer Thrillers: 3 Bestselling Novels which has the Enigma Strain one but also has The Golden Crystal and The Depths in that 3 set. Also had first read 1-3 (Harvey Bennett Thrillers Box Set) which has Enigma Strain, the store Code, Ice Chasm.

Jen Adams, a research assistant, finds that her son has been kidnapped and her boss is brutally murdered, she and her computer programmer husband are thrown into a hunt to find out why.The mystery takes her and a team of British Royal Marines and other scientists deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean -- to a forgotten research station buried under five miles of water in one of the deepest oceanic trenches on the planet. The station has been abandoned for over thirty years, and no one knows what to expect when they get there.As they learn more about the station, however, they find out there's something the base is trying to hide -- something that could prove devastating for the rest of the world...

I loved this book. The only anomaly that bothered me a bit was the housing in the facility. It just didn't seem to fit with the high tech of the rest. Now if that is the best I can come up with as a complaint this is one good book.

I really, really hate it when an author depends on characters that do not quit finish a thought that is integral to the plot as a way of building interest or tension in a book. That happens more or less continuously throughout this book and I found it more than a little annoying.

The writing also expends a lot of energy informing the reader about characters that die shortly afterwards. Total waste of time and energy. Building sympathy for a character to kill them off is just rude. It added very, very little to the narrative and still left me feeling these characters were not worth caring about anyway.

The premise was excellent, but some of the science was junk. That made the story less interesting.

Fight scenes and encounters with the bad guys were well written and engaging. In all it was interesting enough to drag me through finishing the story.

The story starts fast and keeps going.
Researcher Jen finds her son kidnapped and she must travel to a undersea facility and find the solution or her son dies.
So of course she and her estranged husband agree.
She has no idea what she's looking for since her mentor wasn't researching anything like this.
I had to suspend my disbelief a few times when they hid from Russian mercenaries a number of times and succeeded, mostly.
It's a page turner, right up my alley.