The Crypt: Voidstrike

di Scott Sigler (Autore)

Recorded Books, 2026

You can’t trust your senses—and you sure as hell can’t trust the ship. The P.U.V. James Keeling has two objectives: raid enemy supply lines, and capture live specimens of a flesh-eating, warmongering alien species. The first mission is suicidal. The second might be worse. But there’s a complication. The operation unfolds in the territory of a neutral power—one whose ships escort the enemy, and whose laws forbid Keeling’s crew from firing back. A single stray artillery shell could spark a second war, one the Planetary Union will not survive. Through it all, the crew must endure the living nightmare of serving on the Crypt. Every “dive” through transdimensional space peels back another layer of reality. Crewmembers whisper of things seen in the dark, things that shouldn’t exist. Stress compounds. Sanity frays. A crew of rejects, thieves, murderers, and cowards—the “best of the worst“—face death at every turn. When even your bunkmate might try to kill you, who can you trust? Book two of The Crypt plunges into unknowable terror, where you can’t trust your own senses—and the ship itself may be the greatest threat of all. The crew isn’t told what the ship really is or where it came from. Crewmen suffer hallucinations, nightmares, bursts of rage, and a ship-wide paranoia slowly grows until it becomes almost impossible to separate the real threats from the imagined ones. If you’ve been convicted of a serious crime, if you’ve crossed the wrong admiral, if you’ve been deemed a waste of a uniform, your career — and your life — ends on the Keeling. Dark, desolate and violent, The Crypt series creates a setting where every character is expendable and the viewer never knows who will live and who will die. The Keeling has several abilities not found in any other ship. The ship itself is very much the series’ most-mysterious character. It is the only known ship capable of short trans-dimensional jumps, sliding into another plane of reality where it is undetectable by ships on our plane. It can slide back into standard reality to strike at enemy vessels, like a WWII submarine surfacing for a torpedo shot. The Keeling is actually an alien vessel made of an unknown, biological material. The ship slowly bonds with its crew, mapping their thoughts and mental processes. It feeds on the crew’s mental energy, particularly energy created by pain, terror and hatred. As the series progresses, the characters face growing nightmares and hallucinations.

• Autore: Scott Sigler
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 12:55:50
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Recorded Books
• Lingua: Inglese
• EAN: 9781705068281