May 30, 2007 02:20 PM
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"Bin it!" These are the two words that Robin Cook's publisher should have said when he received the draft. Robin Cook should stick to what he does best - medical thrillers.Robin Cook's books are so well loved and read because they are, in a word, plausible. This book takes a deviation from that.
Set in a subterrainian location - 'interterra', the book goes on to describe the abduction of a drilling expedition crew to find out whether the secret about their existence was know to the people above - second generation humans.
What follows is 300 pages of what life in Interterra is like. People who are thousands and millions of years old who incidently do nothing in all that time but 'enjoy their bodies' because all the work in Interterra is done by worker clones.
Ok, plausibility is certainly out the window, despite some feeble attempts to explain things like the Gulf Stream in relation to Interterra exit vents, but then the worst mind bending part is the 'time travel' aspect. The book concludes with the interpid abductees, on trying to escape, being "sent back", in time (!) so that they cant let out the precious secret.
I've read most, if not all of Robin's books, and I must say that this one is completely different from his usual fare. Dont judge him by this book. Please. This book was probably written to show a loss (so that he could possibly get a tax break)
