The Deep Zone: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

In this gripping debut thriller from James M. Tabor, an excellent and beautiful scientist and a mystical special ops soldier must business lead a group deep into the Earth on a desperate search for the treat to a dangerous epidemic.

When she was unjustly terminated from a clandestine government laboratory, microbiologist Hallie Leland swore she’d never look back. But she can’t ignore an immediate summons from the White House to reenter the realm of cutting-edge research and harmful secrets.

“ about The Deep Area: A Novel Potentially the most severe danger since Pearl Harbor” is usually how the chief executive describes a mystical epidemic killing American military in Afghanistan-and now poised for outbreak in the States and beyond. Hundreds of thousands will expire unless Hallie and a hastily mobilized team can recover the ultrarare organism needed to create a fresh antibiotic. The glad tidings are that Hallie knows even more about the organism than anyone else on earth. The bad information is that it could be found only in the bottom of Earth’s deepest cave.

Hallie’s team is certainly capable-especially the strange Wil Bowman, who understands as very much about high-tech weaponry as he does about microbiology-but the task shows up insurmountable. Before also achieving the supercave, they need to traverse a forbidding Mexican jungle filled by warring cartels, Federales, and murderous local people. Only after that can they confront the cave’s flooded tunnels, lakes of acidity, bottomless chasms, and mind-warping blackness. But the deadliest opponents are concealing in plain sight: a robust traitor high in the Washington ranks and a cunning assassin deep underground, driven to turn Hallie’s objective into a journey of no return.

The award-winning and bestselling writer of two non-fiction books about adventure and exploration, James M. Tabor today plunges readers into the harrowing subterranean globe of supercaves-and even deeper, right into a race-with-the-devil thriller that pits one female against a lethal epidemic and a murderous conspiracy.