From the acclaimed author of The Troopwhich Stephen King raved scared the hell out of me and I couldnt put it down.old-school horror at its bestcomes this utterly terrifying novel where The Abyss meets The Shining.A strange plague called the Gets is decimating humanity on a global scale. It causes people to forgetsmall things at first, like where they left their keys, then the not-so-small things, like how to drive or the letters of the alphabet. Their bodies forget how to function involuntarily. There is no cure.But now, far below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, deep in the Mariana Trench, a heretofore-unknown substance hailed as ambrosiaa universal healer, from initial reportshas been discovered. It may just be the key to eradicating the Gets.

In order to study this phenomenon, a special research lab, the Trieste, has been built eight miles under the seas surface. But when the station goes incommunicado, a brave few descend through the lightless fathoms in hopes of unraveling the mysteries lurking at those crushing depthsand perhaps to encounter an evil blacker than anything one could possibly imagine.