The Deep (49 page)
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Copyright © 2015 by Craig Davidson
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Interior design by Davina Mock-Maniscalco
Cover design by Black Kat Design
Cover photographs: sky © plainpicture/Naturbild; ocean © plainpicture/goZooma
Author photograph by Kevin Kelly
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cutter, Nick.
The deep / Nick Cutter.
pages cm
I. Title.
PS3603.U883D44 2015
813’.6—dc23
2014017213
ISBN 978-1-4767-1773-9
ISBN 978-1-4767-1776-0 (ebook)
Contents
Part 1: The ’Gets
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Part 2: Descent
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Part 3: The
Trieste
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Part 4: Ambrosia
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Part 5: The Honeypot
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Part 6: The Fig Men
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Acknowledgments
About Nick Cutter