Fathomless

By: Greig Beck

Narrated by: Sean Mangan

Length: 15 hrs and 1 min

Publisher's summary

In Fathomless, the greatest predator the world has ever known is coming home in 2016.

Carcharodon megalodon. The largest and most fearsome predator to have ever existed on our planet. Rumours of its existence in our modern oceans have persisted for centuries. Now, in a new adventure, the rumours explode into brutal and terrifying reality in Fathomless, by Greig Beck.

Baranof Island, Gulf of Alaska, 1952. Jim Granger is searching for a place of legend. Known as Bad Water by the island's elders, it's reputed to be home to many dangerous creatures. Through a seam in a cliff face, Jim finds what he seeks. He also finds, too late, that the water demon he was warned about is horrifyingly real.

Today Cate Granger is following in her grandfather's footsteps. Along with a team of scientists and crew, she accidentally releases a creature from Earth's primordial past into today's oceans. The giant megalodon shark follows its instinct and a genetic memory of a home that existed millions of years ago along the Californian coast.

Nothing is safe on or below the water as the monster stakes its claim on the world's oceans. Now Cate and her team must do battle with a creature that has no rival, knows no fear, and regards humans as nothing more than prey.

©2016 Greig Beck (P)2016 Bolinda Publishing

Critic reviews

"Mr Beck is a master at building up suspense." ( Good Reading)

Who taught this guy how to prounounce...

Would you consider the audio edition of Fathomless to be better than the print version?
Ok I don't know who taught this guy how to pronounce Charcaridon Megaladon, but that person has even managed to annoy my 5 year old (She walked through the room and is a shark week fanatic and corrected the narrator on her way to the bathroom. Then again on her way back through.)!

Honestly it is a good story and would have been a great read, but this promounciation issue came close to killings the book for me. It really is THAT BAD. I mean seriously has this person never heard of this shark before? Ok. But it's in the book easily over 50 times. You would have thought someone would correct it!

Great story had me laughing, and groaning in a few places because "you just knew" what was coming next. But also several nice plot twists. I will listen to it again most likely, but gah the narration makes me cringe every single time they say Megaladon. So I recommend it with that caution since it was like nails on a chalkboard to me long before the book was over.

Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?
Sometimes.

What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?
Megaladon! Learn how to freaking pronounce it! Gah!!!

takes a long time to get started

just as I said takes along time to get started, after that it gets a bit better

Great story

Love all of Greig Beck's books, and wasn't disappointed with this one. Great storyline, engaging characters. However, although I enjoy Sean Mangan as narrator, his continual mispronounciation of Megalodon started driving me nuts - the story is about a giant MEGALODON, after all!! It's not a Mehg'-uh-loh'-dun. Over and over. And skeletal, and debris... Still well worth your credit and time though!

if you liked The Meg or Jaws you will love this

I really enjoyed this book and I hope that there will be sequels. I can't get enough of creature features or shark stories or Monster movies, and this book was packed with loads of wonderful sharky action. The stakes are high and the risks are plenty and the characters are pretty good, and all kinds of track is laid for more books to come. The science seems plausible, especially with the imminence of climate change that is already upon us. But more than all of that, it's just damn entertaining! Highly recommended.

scary! Super Jaws!

nice mix of plausible conjecture and Terror. if you are a fan of undersea nightmares this is your book.

It’s entertaining

Mr Beck’s works are fun. A bit misogynistic, with odd plot holes, but entertaining. I have listened to a few of them, and get a little frustrated by some very obvious options that would overcome the issue, but end the story. It’s also odd the absurd coincidences that happen that have zero bearing on the story. Such as an individual is eaten, and 50 years later his relative escapes being eaten but finds her ancestors helmet washed up on the rock ledge they find safety on. It was a metal helmet lost at sea with no wind or waves but made it to a rock ledge out of the water. Or why they go to kill a 65’ shark and only bring a harpoon gun. They found a whale ship, and even a dead whale, all with in a day of the location, but could not find any explosives or at least a big gun. If they need to harpoon it for some reason why not put the bait in front of the harpoon, instead they tow the dead whale away with a tiny helicopter (yeah right) to fead the shark miles away. Oh that C-4 I mentioned could have just been stuffed in the dead whale. Concision would have burst the sharks organs. These books are silly, but I’d listen to another!

As they say, "I couldn't put it down!"!

I really liked this book to my surprise after reading some of the reviews! And honestly I swear some people just look for things to pick apart. No wonder they don't enjoy the book! And the people & especially the one who 'cringed' every time he heard the narrator in his mind mispronounce megalodon. For crying out bells, how can one enjoy a story when one concentrates on such trivial stuff? Reading is entertainment for me not English class in school!
I think one of the reasons this story was so suspenseful was the place they were in trying to escape from & from the meg. Then of course there's always those unexpected twists that pop up when you think all is well!
Good book & good narrator!

Unexpectedly good<br />

good pace and thrilling. scary and full of research and real world backed evidence. not just a cheap thriller

Loved the book! But..::

So I really enjoyed listening to this audiobook, however the way he pronounces megalodon is horrific.

Great concept

The narrator left something to be desired. There was not a lot of variance in his voices (apart from accents) and there was very little change in his pace.

As seems to be trending with books of this sort, it starts with an interesting prologue that turns into 10 hours of getting to the point.

Unfortunately, in this one I can't help wondering what the point of the first half of the book was.

This is one of those books that things seem really interesting and I'm wondering just where in the hell the story is going to go... and then something happens that changes everything. Except, it has nothing to do with the story so far and would have happened even if the first half of the book hadn't happened.

So why bother with the first half?

Yes, I finished the book. And no, it didn't really improve.

Do yourself a favor and read Steve Alten's Meg instead.