First of all, Robin Cook surprised me with this here novel. This is way different from his standard fare which admittedly is already quite readable. With this effort though he clearly reinvented himself. This is quite Michael Crichtonesque and less Robin Cook.

The premise: (stated in a few key words) Exploration, Deep Sea, Secret Base,
The argument: Add the traditional characters and interaction (three stooges/hillbillies, the rational scientist, the unyielding military man, the arbiter - a rich tycoon) trying through dialogue (extrapolation, induction, deduction) to solve a baffling mystery within a plot reminiscent of the classic Jules Verne and H . Rider Haggard works.
... And the conclusion is: right up my alley😊

Highlights in quote: "None of them are Russians. - Well, none of them are Americans neither. There is not a single overweight person.😁
"You are delightedly primitive". -"You are yanking my chain..." - Not at all... Not at all.😁 ( )

This story has a very old school pulp fictiony feel to it. And Robin Cook did a brilliant job of making it feel like this story was written in the 1950's. There are some parts that does give the story away as a modern tale, but somehow it does not detract from the pulp fiction feeling.
Which was not quite the type of story in mind when I started the book, but I enjoyed it in the end, except for the very ending... I would've liked it more if the main characters made it back home.

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I suspect that this book would not have been published if it didn't have a best-selling author's name on its cover. It was awful. ( )

Abduction by Robin Cook is a departure from his usual genre of medical mystery thriller. It suffers from some of the problems found in some of his other books, namely one dimensional flat characters.

It is however a rather imaginative and interesting journey to an undersea civilisation which is far more advanced than our own.

I did feel like the ending was a bit of a fizzler. ( )

The cover of this book is a little deceptive, in my opinion. The book is about a group of people who get sucked into a civilization located under the ocean, in a mysterious space between parts of the earth's crust. They discover that there is a very advanced civilization living in what seems to be a utopia. However, they are a little disgruntled that they seem to have been 'abducted' against their will. This was actually a re-read for me, since when I grabbed it off the bookshelf I thought I hadn't read it, but once I started I realized what book it was. But it is an interesting story and I enjoyed reading it through again.