Grave Descend
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From the creator of Jurassic Park and ER Leagues below the sparkling blue water of the Caribbean Sea lies the mysterious wreckage of the Grave Descend. Protected by a wall of coral reef and blood-thirsty sharks, the corpse of the sunken yacht has been deemed unrecoverable by every diver in the world. Until James McGregor is offered a shot at it. For McGregor, a thirty-nine-year-old diver with a long history of unsavory salvage jobs, it’s his last chance at a big payday. But the more he learns about the wreck, the more questions he uncovers—because none of the survivors are telling the same story. How did the ship really sink? What was its cargo? And why is this whole project starting to feel like a suicide mission? With a new introduction by Sherri Crichton
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1 primary bookHard Case Crime is a 1-book series first released in 1970 with contributions by Michael Crichton and John Lange.
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A short, blitz of a thriller. There's nothing particularly new or unique about this book, and I suspect that was true when it was published back in 1970. But no one picks up a pulp thriller—which is essentially what this is—for the innovation. When you do find innovation in a pulp novel, it's a welcome surprise, and often a game-changer for the genre (looking at you, Jim Thompson). When there's nothing that's genre-shifting, the best you can hope for is to be entertained by some pure escapist fiction. And that's exactly what what the book is, and I enjoyed it because of that.
