"Sometimes, it stares back."

According to the end notes by the author, J.K.Framks, part of the profits from this book will go to marine charities to help protect the ocean's health. It is the second in the Cade Rearden series, and a techno thriller, almost 17 hours in length, and again performed by Lee Strayer.

Unlike it's predecessor, State of Chaos, which introduced the reader to the super AI, Doris, and the small group of children and, later, other adults who assisted her in the defence against st a less benign intelligence, Janus, Midnight zone takes the reader into underwater mysteries. But a no less serious threat has emerged from the oceans and this time Cade Rearden takes central stage in this life and death struggle for humanity, with able assistance, of course, from Doris, one of her subsidiaries, Dee, human friends and futuristic equipment, a story which starts with the real life 1967 attack on a small environmental research ship, the USS Liberty by Israeli agents. Fast action, terrifying beauty and human emotion combine with almost available technology to make this a thrilling, if exhausing, read.

The book is also well written, with believable dialogue, and excellently read by Lee Strayer, whose only fault seems to be the occasional, if continued, strange pronunciation of, for example, the word primer as 'primmer'.

My thanks to the rights holder of Midnight Zone, who, at my request, freely gifted me with a complimentary copy of the book via Audiobook Boom. I struggled a little with some of the technical explanations but otherwise enjoyed (can this be the correct word for so much apocalyptic mahem?) the whole presentation immensely, and recommended it to anyone who likes end-of-the-world scenario techno thrillers and I look forward to future Cade Rearden stories. A good read.

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