The Black

De: Paul E. Cooley

Narrado por: Joe Hempel

Under 30,000 feet of water, the experimental exploration rig Leaguer has discovered an oil field larger than Saudi Arabia, with oil so sweet and pure, nations would go to war for the rights to it.

But as the team starts drilling exploration well after exploration well in their race to claim the sweet crude, a deep rumbling beneath the ocean floor shakes them all to their core. Something has been living in the oil, and it's about to give birth to the greatest threat humanity has ever seen.

The first book in Paul E Cooley's Parsec Award-winning series, The Black is a suspenseful thriller that puts the horror and action of movies such as Leviathan and Carpenter's The Thing right into listeners' hands.

This second edition includes a completely revised text.

©2022 Shadowpublications.com; 2nd edition (P)2022 Fireside Audio

The Black

I enjoyed this book, it’s unlike anything I’ve listened to before but was full of action and suspense. I think it was well worth reading or listening to

Good character development & plot.

Enjoyed it very much. Will read the sequels. There shouldn’t be a 15-word minumum.

I wanted to like this…

I decided to read this story, listen, rather, due to someone stating it was like The Thing and some other popular horror combined. That statement piqued my interest. Sadly, it did not meet expectation.

The story was interesting, and that something foreign, alien lived beneath the crust of our planet. It was haunting, and it was creepy, but the story was not told well. The execution was lost in repetition that just blew me away. Also, it bothered me how one minute everything this creature touched, dissolved, yet it could grow legs and walk without destroying anything . Actually, making everything look better because it was stripping down to bare metal so it was like chromed out lol.

Also, the story took so long to become engaging. I understand the need to describe the job, and to get us to find interest in the characters, but the technicality of everything just bothered me to no end. I can’t remember how long the story is, but if there was a six hour run time then The action didn’t get good until like hour 3 1/2.

I decided to not read the other book. Cheers!

Suspenseful mood

Loved the strangely calm and smooth writing, even in the throes of the chaos. My only qualm being the ending, looking forward to the next book.

Interesting

This is an interesting story. A different story from your normal book. Really enjoyed, very exciting. Recommend listen.