The Presence

Name: The Presence
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.7 (10 reviews)
Author: John Saul
ISBN: 9781423355922

Author: John Saul

Narrator: Phil Gigante

Unabridged: 10 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 08/29/2008

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller

Synopsis

Beyond the sparkling Hawaiian beaches, masked by the deceptive beauty of the rainforest, evil awaits sixteen-year-old Michael Sundquist and his mother, Katharine, an anthropologist who has come to the Islands to study the unusual skeletal remains unearthed on the volcanic flanks of Haleakala, Maui.Yet far below the black depths of the Pacific a mysterious substance snakes through undiscovered fissures in the ocean floor, as nature itself seems to portend the terror to come.Then, with the sudden, unexplained death of Michael’s friend, a disturbing truth dawns: the corporation that is funding Katharine’s dig has a far greater investment than she ever imagined – an investment in medical terror. And her son may be part of their hideous plan…

About John Saul

House of Reckoning is John Saul’s thirty-sixth novel. His first novel, Suffer the Children, published in 1977, was an immediate million-copy bestseller. His other bestselling suspense novels include In the Dark of the Night, Perfect Nightmare, Black Creek Crossing, Midnight Voices, The Manhattan Hunt Club, The Right Hand of Evil, Guardian, and Faces of Fear. Saul divides his time between Seattle, Washington, and Hawaii.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sandra on May 06, 2022

An anthropologist from New York (Katherine Sundquist) is contacted by an old flame (graduate school friend, Ron Silver) to help him out on a dig in Hawaii. Katherine accepts and takes her sixteen-year-old son (Michael) with her. But while they are there, strange things are happening… her sons’ new f......more

Goodreads review by Paula on April 24, 2022

Anthropologist Katharine Sundquist gets a job offer to study unusual skeletal remains that were unearthed on Maui. Katharine’s sixteen-year-old son, Michael, who has asthma, is being bullied in school so she decides that now might be a good time to leave New York and head for Hawaii. Unfortunately,......more

Goodreads review by Supratim on March 13, 2017

I wanted to read some escapist fiction and for this reason I chose this book – a sci-fi thriller. The book starts with a pair of divers finding an interesting object off the coast of a Hawaiian island. This is followed by the mysterious death of a teenager in the US. From the very beginning the auth......more

Goodreads review by hotsake on October 06, 2022

John Saul writing style has always been extremely readable and this book was no different. The story itself however reminded me more of something from Michael Crichton than John Saul but regardless of that I found this a fun fast paced read. 3.75/5......more

Goodreads review by N.N. on November 02, 2018

So creepy. . . but in a good way. lol! Saul at his best.......more