By Frank Herbert
Within the never-ending warfare among East and West, oil has develop into the last word prize. Nuclear-powered subtugs courageous enemy waters to faucet into hidden oil reserves underneath the East’s continental shelf. however the final twenty missions have by no means again. Have sleeper brokers infiltrated the elite submarine provider, or are the crews easily cracking lower than the pressure?Psychologist John Ramsay has long past undercover aboard a Hell Diver subtug. His venture is to covertly detect the rest of the four-man crew—and locate the traitor between them. Sabotage and suspicion quickly plague the venture, as Ramsay discovers that the strain of combating a conflict a mile and a part lower than the sea exposes each weak spot in a guy. Hunted relentlessly by means of the enemy, the 4 males locate themselves remoted in a claustrophobic undersea criminal, suffering for survival opposed to the weather . . . and themselves.A gripping novel through the mythical writer of Dune.
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Ramsey bent over his panel mike. " "This tunnel vent opens from the inside. It should've been closed. But if it'd been closed we wouldn't have noticed --" He fell silent. Ramsey's thoughts went to the actions of that Security officer: alone in the tunnel with the certain knowledge he was dying and nothing could save him. Spending his last minutes to guard the safety of others. Would I have been as brave? he wondered. Sparrow said, "He put the knife in himself rather than go out the slow way alone in here.
He spoke to Ramsey: "You're a boy, Junior. We may make a submariner out of you yet. " Ramsey racked a screw driver in his tool kit, closed the kit, turned, saw Sparrow. " Sparrow didn't answer at once. He looked around the control room, sniffed the air. Faint smell of ozone. A distant humming of stand-by machinery. The round eyes of the indicator dials like symbiotic extensions of himself. The plucking disquiet remained within him. "As secure as mortals can make it -- I hope," he said. " Sparrow turned, ducked out the way he had entered.
Diffusion normal-plus. " Ramsey felt the subtug lurch, then a faint whispering pulse of power. The deck assumed a slight upward incline, leveled. Presently, it tipped down. We're headed into the deeps, thought Ramsey. Physically and mentally. From here on it's up to me. "Mr. Ramsey, come to the control deck," Sparrow ordered. Ramsey closed down his board, went forward. Sparrow stood, hands behind his back, feet braced slightly apart almost precisely in the center of the control deck. He appeared framed in a background maze of pipes, wheels, levers, and dials.