This is the third Crawford novel featuring Ethan Warner, continuing the trend of setting up a plot that is outside of the normal and involving him in scenarios that enter into the paranormal. Warner is summoned by the Defense Intelligence Agency to help with the investigation of a double murder of a woman and her daughter.
Within moments of arriving at the scene with his partner Nicola Lopez, Ethan is telephoned by the woman’s husband who tells him that he did not commit the murders, but he himself will be killed within 24 hours, knows the murderer who is not yet aware that he will kill, and predicts various events that will occur during the 24 hour period.
The opening throws Ethan and Nicola into an investigation that involves the Bermuda Triangle, and the mysteries surrounding it, a huge undersea installation first built by the military and taken over by a private company and a logically developed and explained method of seeing into the near future.
Crawford has a knack for grabbing the reader and drawing him or her into the book, explaining the possible science behind developments portrayed in easy to understand terms without making these events explained away by glossing over them. High adventure very well done with out of the ordinary plots continues to be Crawford’s forte and he guarantees sleepless nights for the reader engrossed in his book.
3/14 Paul Lane
APOCALYPSE by Dean Crawford. Touchstone (March 18, 2014). ISBN 978-1451659498. 416p.
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