From #1
New York Times
bestselling author Michael Crichton, a riveting science fiction thriller about group of scientists sent to investigate a ship resting on the ocean floor and a discovery that defies imagination.
“Crichton keeps us guessing at every turn.”—
Los Angeles Times
“A page-turner. . . . Cinematic, with powerful visual images and nonstop action.”—
Newsweek
In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel is discovered resting on the ocean floor. It is a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions, apparently undamaged by its fall from the sky. And, most startling, it appears to be at least three hundred years old. But even more fantastic—and frightening—is what waits inside . . .