This book is the scientific journal of a biologist who is a member of the 12th expedition into Area X. No one really knows what has happened to the 11 previous expeditions. This group of four, the biologist, a psychologist, a surveyor and an anthropologist are highly trained for the mission and sent with specific instructions. Once they arrive, it becomes obvious very quickly that the mission instructions were incomplete and that they have been lied to by the authorities. Things go south pretty quickly as they discover and investigate a tunnel that is really more like an underground tower. The members of the mission quickly start disappearing, dying and turning on each other.
As we read, we discover that the biologist volunteered for the mission because her husband was on an earlier crew. He returned to her in bodily form but was a changed man who remembered nothing of the mission and soon died of a rare cancer. This mission is now their connection.
This book is kind of creepy and out of my normal zone. For that reason I enjoyed the exposure to it but doubt it will go far in the 2015 tournament of books.
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