Tides of Fire (#1,171) is the latest in James Rollins' Sigma Force series. Although there are plenty of human foes here, the main enemy is nature itself, in the form of volcanic eruptions and a mysterious ancient species of black coral.
The Chinese have inadvertently set off a series of catastrophic events when they fired an ELF wave at the depths of the ocean after one of their technologically advanced submarines went down in unexplained circumstances in one of the ocean's deepest areas - the Tonga Trench. Scrambling to retrieve it before anyone from the West can leads to a full-blown Chinese assault on a pioneering oceanographic research installation. Sigma Force is sent to help.
Hair-raising adventures and seemingly inescapable situations abound here, but as always in a Rollins novel, the scariest parts are those based on fact, not fiction. The Ring of Fire surrounding the Pacific is real, as we are reminded during relatively minor eruptions. What if there to be another event greater than Krakatoa or Mount Tambora? This is the kind of book that may keep you up nights!
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