Order of the Black Sun Series: Books 1-3 (The Black Sun Series Boxset) by Preston William Child

Author:Preston William Child [Child, Preston William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-13T22:00:00+00:00

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On Deep Sea One, two days after Mr. Purdue and his party left for Nepal, the oil rig played host to some strange events that Liam at first ignored as superstition and such, but when it became downright uncanny he had to share his astonishment with his colleagues. Flicking his cigarette from the smoker's area into the eternal oblivion of the cold water beneath the structure, Liam was in deep contemplation. He had noticed that the weather had become increasingly erratic during the past few days, defying the readings on their weather warning system entirely. It had caused two accidents among the few men employed on the platform, on two consecutive days, until they discovered a pattern and avoided a third mishap the day after.

The water shimmered in silver across the vastness of the moonlit waves as the ocean breathed deep and occasionally whispered with a foamy hiss. Liam squinted his eyes and looked to the horizon, but it was obscured by an approaching fog that also showed up uninvited and unannounced. But by now, few things about the great blue mystery surprised him.

All the strangeness came after the ROV had gone missing, he noticed, but it was a minimal discrepancy, so he shifted it from his mind for the moment. Two days after the boss left on his adventure, that little discrepancy became an undeniable anomaly, but oddly he was the only one to realize that suddenly nature had a habit.

Not one to make alarm for nothing he had kept to himself that the sudden gathering of clouds was unnatural, that such a possession of the sky and surroundings had each time been followed by a severe storm. Because of his reputation for being superstitious and believing in sea gods and so on, the mechanic put off remarking on the phenomenon. However, after the second accident he was convinced that he needed to bring the subject under some scrutiny. Two men were badly injured being struck from their posts by a tidal wave that came from nowhere, after the skies darkened too rapidly and lightning whipped at the radio tower.

Tommy was off-duty this week and he stood in for him, assisting in whatever Darwin needed him for as engineer.

"Looking for a kraken?" he heard Darwin's mocking voice behind him.

"If I find the monster, I'm puttin' a leash on it and the first one whose balls I'll have it go after will be yours," Liam said dryly without looking at the engineer. "Have you noticed that we cannot predict the weather conditions lately?" he asked and coughed heavily. Darwin gave it some thought, rummaging through his weary memory, and then replied, "Yes, but it has never been an accurate science. It's always a bit off by a day or so . . ."

"No, Darwin, I mean minutes. Within minutes the environment changes completely. Haven't you noticed? I checked the computer. I even staked it out all night a few days ago, but there is nothin' wrong with the hardware. Still," he sighed and looked at the sea, "it changes rapidly and violently and I don't like it one bit.

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