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The Deep: A Novel Paperback – August 16, 2016
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Print length416 pages
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LanguageEnglish
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PublisherGallery Books
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Publication dateAugust 16, 2016
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Dimensions5.31 x 1.2 x 8.25 inches
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ISBN-101501144839
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ISBN-13978-1501144837
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- Publisher : Gallery Books; Reissue edition (August 16, 2016)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 416 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1501144839
- ISBN-13 : 978-1501144837
- Item Weight : 12.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.31 x 1.2 x 8.25 inches
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About the author

Hello All,
It is I, Nicholas J Cutter Esq! I'm the writer of The Troop, The Deep, The Acolyte (May 2015), and the upcoming Little Heaven (2016, probs). I write horror and I love doing it. If the books sell, I'll keep writing them. If they don't, I'll go dig a ditch--not for the money, but because that's what I like to do when I'm not writing.
You can visit me at:
www.craigdavidson.net (that's the name of my alter ego)
Or check out my author page at:
http://authors.simonandschuster.ca/Nick-Cutter/408931263
Yrs most sincerely,
Nick.
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Nick Cutter’s The Deep: A Novel introduces us to Dr. Luke Nelson, a veterinarian. Although he hasn’t seen his brother, genius scientist Clay, in years, he’s snapped up by the government to help out with a project Clay is involved in. Clay is 8 miles down under the surface of the ocean in the Mariana Trench, studying a possible miraculous cure-all agent they call ambrosia. There’s a disease going around called “the ‘Gets”–everyone who catches it starts forgetting more and more, until they finally forget to breathe. The hope is that ambrosia might be the one thing that cures it. Clay and two other scientists are trying to harvest some ambrosia to study. The problem is, the folks up top have lost contact with the little facility they have down there (the Trieste), and one of the last things Clay transmitted was a bizarre-sounding appeal for Luke to “come home.” One of the other scientists came up on his own and was found quite horrifically dead. The folks in charge hope that Luke will be the key to finding out what’s going on, and he’s quickly sent down to the Trieste with Lieutenant Commander Alice “Al” Sykes.
I love it when the weird stuff starts happening early on in a horror or paranormal novel. We all know it’s coming; it’s overly coy to keep it out of reach. The Deep dives right in, with the ‘Gets, the ambrosia, and the insanity of sending three scientists 8 miles below the ocean’s surface. When Luke and Al get down there, things have already gone very, very wrong. One of the two remaining scientists seems to have gone insane. True, this can happen when you’re alone, in the dark, in such an inhospitable place, but this is something else. Clay doesn’t seem all that odd, but I mean, this is Clay–he’s always been impassive, cold, and uncaring about anyone except himself. As he says, why would he have sent for Luke? Luke can’t do anything for him. There are very weird things going on in the various labs, but most of the doors are locked and Luke can’t tell what’s going on inside of them.
The insane and weird events build nicely, but there was at least one stretch toward the end where I felt like it wasn’t really ramping up fast enough. It got over that, though. There are a lot of memories that Luke spends his time falling into–apparently it’s something about the Trieste, or whatever else might be down here with the ambrosia. Thus we see into Luke’s life quite often. It does become relevant, I promise. He’s had a hard time of things–his son Zach disappeared some years ago. And he and Clayton did not exactly have a normal upbringing.
This is where I tackle the thing that pissed me off about this book. Luke and Clayton’s mother. She’s a horrifying monster of a woman, capable of terrible things. She’s also a walking, talking veneer over the face of some serious fatphobia. The details of her fatness are almost lovingly lingered on and very obviously meant to make her seem more disgusting and monstrous. Nearly every time she’s brought up there’s a nod to her fatness whether it’s relevant to anything or not. When she trauma-eats after a very violent event, even that is made to be disgusting. Then there’s a brief mention of a man who killed a bunch of children, and of course he’s labeled “rotund.” In Nick Cutter’s world, fat equals evil. Fat equals disgusting. Fat equals disturbed. People who are fat abuse children, molest children, and kill children.
It’s a shame, because this is a really creative book other than that. I love how things work out in some very unexpected ways. However, there’s a seriously major plot point that never gets at all wrapped up–it drops away into nowhere after being worked up into something that seems very unnatural.
Content note for a fair amount of animal harm, because Clay has no morals and experiments on animals, even referring to each one as “it.” There’s also off-the-page child death and molestation, and of course a bit of gore.
I really wanted to like this book, I was thinking that it would be amazing—the end of the world with a curious disease and the only answer for human survival was at the bottom of the deepest ocean trench. WRONG!
My comments were a few pages in length and then I shortened them. Usually if I have a horrible experience I suggest that the next guy experience the same. Not this time. Don’t bother unless you’re an inspiring Author, in that case you’ll want to use this book as a reference—there are 100’s of examples of what not to do as an author.
Entire story below *Spoiler
1) First 20 Pages—there’s a world apocalypse/disease called “Gets” which people catch accelerated Alzheimer’s. (This is the last the update the reader will here of the “Gets”)
2) Next 260 Pages—There may be a cure at the bottom of the ocean. Events like the movie Sphere take place. (The reader has no idea of what is taking place with humanity)
3) The last 20 Pages—A Tall alien and a short alien tell the main character that they caused the “sphere” like events because they are mischievous. (picture the last scene of the movie Abyss)
4) In a single sentence—The main character asks if the Aliens created the “Gets”? The aliens say “No, the Gets was beyond their magical powers” THE END.
Basically, a Veterinarian is summoned to go talk to his brother who is incommunicado at the bottom of the Marianas Trench researching a possible cure for a disease that has become a pandemic. It's like a last ditch effort to save humanity.
Most of the characters are fleshed out well, but there's lots of bags of bones hanging about also, people I wish I got to know better. I really wish we got to learn more about the disease. The disease sounded more interesting to be honest.
I liked how Cutter wrote the novel, the flashbacks are done really well, I was getting some serious *IT* vibes. Nick Cutter is a very good writer. He does creepy very well and is masterful when it comes to setting and description. The pace of the book goes at a good clip, he doesn't dawdle.
This book has so much promise, and I did enjoy reading much of it. In the end I dislikes the reveal and the ending, it kind of made me hate the book. I don't really hate it, but I won't bother with it again and most likely I won't be reading anymore of his books.
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The World has become riddled with “The Gets”
A plague has overcome the earth where it manifests itself physically with pock-marked skin that develops into forgetting small things – like where you left your keys, and develops into forgetting major things like how to drive and finally when your body forgets how to exist and you die. This triggers the main story of what is happening below the ocean – 8 miles down. A substance has potentially been discovered in the deepest recesses of the ocean, further than any human could possibly survive, it’s deadly and crushing. A protected lab has been constructed but at a terrible cost where three scientists will examine and test this wonder substance. Can it be a cure?
Human’s weren’t built for this. There’s a reason nothing exists down here. Or nothing should.
Without examining the horrendous goings on within the lab, there are terrible things that could go wrong down there. The pressure alone would tear them apart, there are deadly creatures that roam the deepest depths of the ocean. Terrible creatures…ugly…
Psychological Elements – Claustrophobia, Isolation and Paranoia
These elements play out throughout the story in glorious HD. You are 8 miles beneath the surface, the mere pressure of the water and the contained way the characters were kept in would be claustrophobic as hell. They haven’t seen daylight in god knows how long and they only have each other and tonnes of water around them for company. No wonder they each fall into madness with their arms outstretched – Or do they? Is it actually some other supernatural force at work here? One scientist openly talks about holes appearing in the lab walls, of it having an exorable pull towards it. How can a hole appear in the wall and not have the water crush them into a pulp?
Flashbacks
This is I think where the author really comes into his own with this story. It is classic horror at its absolute best. The main character Lucas often has flashbacks to his childhood and just how terrible his mother was to both Lucas and his father. It’s this type of writing that reinforces the notion that we are all a product of our upbringing. Those monsters that you were damn sure were under your bed or in your closet – what if they were actually real?
Overall, this was a read with one eye open type of book. If you are squemish then this isn’t a book for you. It’s a horror story what would it be if there wasn’t death, blood, gore and suffering?
That said, it's not particularly well-written in my opinion. There are some glaring mistakes which irritate, and at least one which seriously threatens suspension of disbelief. For instance, it's hard for me to believe in a character who is supposed to be a top biologist, who repeatedly refers to the worker bees in a colony/hive as 'drones'. That's just wrong, and I don't care if the fellow is supposed to be losing his mind - it's not a mistake any biologist, or even somebody with basic common knowledge of bees, would make, and to me, it's infuriating.
But if that sort of thing doesn't bother you, and you just want to read some scary and deeply unsettling fiction, here it is!


















