Fathom - aka Domain - Domain, Bk 1 Author:Steve Alten The nationally bestselling author of Meg returns with a new thriller that deftly blends the full-throttle action of Independence Day with the dynamic quest of The Celestine Prophecy. — Something is lurking beneath the final fathom in the Gulf of Mexico. It's been patient, waiting for just the right moment to surface. Self-contained and s... more »elf-sustained, it has the power to lay waste to entire species, ecosystems, and ultimately everything in its wake. Time's up.
An expert astronomer and the son of a radical archaeologist, Dr. Mick Gabriel is at a critical point of his career. His research indicates that the sun's magnetic field will soon complete its 18,139-year cycle and effectively reverse its polarity. Gabriel suspects that the shift will not only jam communications throughout the world, but will set in motion a quantum fluctuation in the earth's terrestrial makeup. He doesn't know the half of it.Mick's suspicions are confirmed with reports of monumental tide shifts in the Gulf with food chains run amuck and, most distressing, a series of blood curdling attacks on fishermen, sailors, and vacationers throughout the coastal environs. But when his pleas for a concerted government intervention fall on deaf ears, Mick stands alone.
With no where else to turn, Mick revisits his father's long discredited theories and pieces together a link between the globe's archaeological enigmas and the shifting solar phenomenon. His father's journals steer him to an eccentric Mayan scholar with a penchant for trouble and obsessed with the ancient civilization's Doomsday prophecy. Soon afterward, Mick is strapped into a deep-sea submersible on a collision course with the most primal and vile being onearth. What he finds is only the beginning of an epic journey to the bottom a seemingly unfathomable mystery.
With fascinating insight into history's lost worlds combined with cutting-edge scientific theory and practice, Fathom will leave listeners breathless.« less