Haloclineis a near future tale of the workingsof an everyday salvage vessel and its inevitable crew of characters. It is atwisted continuance of john g rees’ first horror novel anoxic zone.
Their lives forever changed by the machinations of Megacorpyears before, Jake and Johnny rid themselves of the yoke they had been forcedto wear, but the result left them in a limbo of the damned.
Fate once again steps in, making the questionand choice for our heroes: to save themselves or to save a people from a fateworse than death? It seems the answer is both. Jake and Johnny will have toconfront the evil within themselves if they are to prevail. For Jake this is nosmall task. The odds are overwhelming. The risks are great, the cost theirsouls.
Old friends reunite, new ones appear as atorturous quest for survival and independence again wash up on the shores ofeastern Romania. Over a thousand years ago, a war was fought on this coast.Good did not win. But the winds of change are blowing and the peoples ofRomania will have to go through hell all over again if they are to earn theright to live on their piece of earth.
Once again, grossly graphicdescriptions of the disfigurements and impalings occur throughout this wildlythrilling novel. Rees’ way of words just makes you squinch your eyes and yetwant more. He happily continues to disgust and amuse us.
