{"product_id":"book-bjdf","title":"Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdam Roberts's \u003ci\u003eTwenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e revisits Jules Verne's classic novel in a collaboration with the illustrator behind a highly acclaimed edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Hunting of the Snark.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is 1958 and France's first nuclear submarine, \u003ci\u003ePlongeur\u003c\/i\u003e, leaves port for the first of its sea trials. On board, gathered together for the first time, are one of the Navy's most experienced captains and a tiny skeleton crew of sailors, engineers, and scientists. The \u003ci\u003ePlongeur\u003c\/i\u003e makes her first dive and goes down, and down and down. Out of control, the submarine plummets to a depth where the pressure will crush her hull, killing everyone on board, and beyond. The pressure builds, the hull protests, the crew prepare for death, the boat reaches the bottom of the sea and finds nothing. Her final dive continues, the pressure begins to relent, but the depth gauge is useless. They have gone miles down. Hundreds of miles, thousands, and so it goes on. Onboard the crew succumb to madness, betrayal, religious mania, and murder. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHas the \u003ci\u003ePlongeur \u003c\/i\u003eleft the limits of our world and gone elsewhere?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49385148514608,"sku":"BDbjdf","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/bjdf-Square-cover.jpg?v=1776375732","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-bjdf","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}