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The Black

By: Paul E. Cooley
Narrated by: Joe Hempel
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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 First Contact Horror Science Fiction Supernatural Thriller & Suspense Scary Paranormal Fiction Exciting
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Exploration rig Leaguer has just discovered oil. But as they prepare to extract it, one of the workers sustains an injury which brings something sinister onboard the rig, and when the scientist tests the oil it causes her to be terrified. What results is sheer chaos, horror and survival tactics.

I listened to the first edition audiobook with the author doing the narration. The original had a lot of overly detailed technical descriptions written into the book, much of which seems to have been edited out of this version to their credit, as I remember getting bored and skipping through it. I prefer this edition as the author concentrates on the horror as opposed to all the other unnecessary technical details, and the audiobook benefits from a trained narrator.

I received this book for free of my choosing and I voluntarily left this review.

Much better edition

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Love,love LOVED the quick reference to Jake bible after just finishing the Mega series.
This story was cold, creepy and I thought a bit slow-moving but all of a sudden… BOOM! stomach churning tension and more character unalives than GOT. Great book and halfway through the second. Will definitely be downloading the third book.
Great work Mr Cooley :)

Brilliant

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Starts off at a slow pace and then ramps up well. Good book if you like a Lovecraftian menace. Which I do!

Decent - Worth a credit.

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Wow, I was expecting a lot from this book after that blurb. I am so happy to report that the book brought it and more. The action and the suspense was amazing and the horror aspect was so well done. There are some parts of this book that were a touch over technical so i did vague out a bit there but the rest of the book was just so well done.

I also want to give a shout out to the narrator they brought out so much more from the story and seriously gave me the creeps in the best way so many times. Amazing work.

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This is so distinctly average that I couldn’t tell if I liked it or hated it. The narrator was good though. Only buy if it’s on sale.

Meh.

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