AUTHOR: James M. Tabor
STARTED: November 21, 2012
FINISHED: November 25, 2012
PAGES: 432 (Audio Books)
GENRE: Fiction
FIRST SENTENCE: Some nights, when the winds of the spring rise up out of Virginia, they peel fog from the Potomac and drape it over the branches of dead trees trapped in the river's black mud banks.
SUMMARY: [From Barnes and Noble] Burned by her own government in a trumped-up scandal, brilliant microbiologist Hallie Leland swore she’d never return to the world of cutting-edge science and dangerous secrets. But a shocking summons from the White House changes all that. A mysterious epidemic is killing American soldiers in Afghanistan—and poised for outbreak in the United States and beyond. Without the ultrarare organism needed to create an antidote, millions will die. Hallie knows more about “Moonmilk” than anyone—but it can be found only at the bottom of the deepest cave on Earth. To get there, she and her team of experts must brave a forbidding Mexican jungle crawling with drug cartels, federales, and murderous locals. And in the supercave await far greater terrors: flooded tunnels, acid lakes, bottomless chasms, mind-warping blackness—and a cunning assassin with orders to make the mission a journey of no return.
THOUGHTS: The Boyfriend and I listened to this while driving to and from my parent's place for Thanksgiving. It was horrendous but entertaining. We had fun guessing all the plot points before the narrator told us what happened. This was your typical action/mystery/political thriller. There was nothing special about this (other than the fact that it takes place in a supercave).
When The Boyfriend asks for an entertaining book, I deliver. It was the perfect book to keep us entertained for the long drive.
RATING: 4/10
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