The Cave

By: Jay Londo

Narrated by: Henry Schrader

Lovebirds Bob and Megan are avid cave divers. To celebrate their marriage, they embark upon an underwater journey to explore a newly discovered cave system with their best friends. But when a fellow diver’s prank turns into a tragic disaster, Bob, Megan, and their best friend Sara find themselves lost in a nightmarish network of underwater tunnels.

With their air running out, they wash up on the shores of an underground lake. What they find forces them to rethink exactly what lengths they’ll go to to survive. And so begins their epic quest for survival. Are the three explorers prepared to confront their primal essence in order to make it out alive?

The Cave is packed with profound moral questions, romance, murder, cannibalism, and time travel. It is an adventure tale that will curl your toes, a heart-pounding nightmare of being the hunted in an alien environment, and a courageous story of life, death, desperation, and human triumph.

"Jay Londo, the author of several novels, should be commended for attempting an epic tale of desperation and triumph. His subject mattercovers such disparate topics as insurance fraud, romance, cave diving, early human existence, hunting, and time travel. Londo shows talent for developing and managing an extended plot that covers many years and many miles." (Andi Diehn)

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True Sci fi adventure!

this story roped me in from the beginning and kept me intrested the whole way through. it was absolutely incredible

So much potential, but really lacking basic research

I really wanted to like this book, but from the beginning it was evident that the author did not know his subject. There are quite a few examples related to scuba diving that really irked me. Scuba divers don’t breathe oxygen (except for using it as a decompression gas shallower than 20 feet), the description of “rebreather suits” was nothing like any of the rebreathers (they’re not suits) which are available on the market, the basics of dive physiology are completely ignored, and the basics of cave diving are completely ignored. If you are a scuba diver with any significant knowledge of your sport, it will be evident that the author didn’t do basic research on the subject. If you are a cave diver, you will want to put the book down as soon as he describes any of the actions of the “cave divers“ in the book. Aside from that, the story is definitely all over the place, and in the end is glued back together haphazardly. The story seems written by a man interested in putting some of his bedroom fantasies on paper, and yet somehow wanting to throw a bit of religion in as an afterthought. I never like to leave a book unfinished, but it was tempting for this. The author really should have consulted with individuals that had a bit of knowledge of the subjects he wrote on, or at least done proper research… I would suggest a rewrite. Also not a big fan of the narrator’s secondary voices particularly the females… I know that’s not an easy task.