The Abyss

Deep in the Caribbean Sea, a United States nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks, prompting a frantic search and recovery operation. A team of Navy SEALs joins the crew of an experimental underwater drilling station to investigate the disaster near the edge of a massive trench. As global tensions push the world toward nuclear brinkmanship, the crew encounters an astonishing and mysterious nonhuman intelligence residing in the ocean depths.

by Orson Scott Card

Legend · First published 1989 · 368 pages