- Paperback: 448 pages
- Publisher: St Martin's Press; Reprint edition (30 Jan 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0765342162
- ISBN-13: 978-0765342164
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.8 x 3.1 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 389,421 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"If Don Corleone and his Family sported fangs they'd fit right into this tale."
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Victor Renquist, centuries-old master of a small colony of Nosferatu, has been "recruited"-forcibly-by an undercover branch of the National Security Agency, Paranormal Operations and Research. They need his help. It seems that certain members of Hitler's Third Reich escaped to a secret world below Antarctica, taking with them some very advanced technology. Human teams have failed to infiltrate the base, and Renquist is the NSA's last chance.
The team is small: Renquist; his right-hand man, Lupo; an extremely unorthodox hardline NSA operative named Jack Coulson; and Thyme Bridewell, a failed NSA brain-control experiment originally intended as Renquist's lunch. What they find in Underland taxes even Renquist's supernormal powers. The quondam Nazis have some very powerful allies -- the Dhrakuh, a race of sentient reptiles from the dawn of time. Their goal is nothing less than the conquest of the entire world.
To make matters worse, Renquist is hampered by some throwbacks from his own race and by the unexpected arrival of one of his own colony members, Julia, together with Philipa, a darklost whom Julia has led through the Change into Nosferatu.
The future of civilization hangs in the balance.
The team is small: Renquist; his right-hand man, Lupo; an extremely unorthodox hardline NSA operative named Jack Coulson; and Thyme Bridewell, a failed NSA brain-control experiment originally intended as Renquist's lunch. What they find in Underland taxes even Renquist's supernormal powers. The quondam Nazis have some very powerful allies -- the Dhrakuh, a race of sentient reptiles from the dawn of time. Their goal is nothing less than the conquest of the entire world.
To make matters worse, Renquist is hampered by some throwbacks from his own race and by the unexpected arrival of one of his own colony members, Julia, together with Philipa, a darklost whom Julia has led through the Change into Nosferatu.
The future of civilization hangs in the balance.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
BIG IN JAPAN
24 May 2005
Format:Paperback
When I picked up UNDERLAND I didn't know it was part of a series. I just picked it up because I'm always ready for a story involving Nazis and flying saucers - so when starting out I was already behind as to what had happened before. But, to my surprise, Farren did a solid job of filling me in on the backstory, the players and the events up till now that it didn't so much as get in the way of the story, as help to carry it along... but this dosen't mean that it helped to complete the story either. UNDERLAND is a fun book, but like most vampire novels they tend to get crushed under the weight of not only their own lore, but the lore of all vampires that have come before them. There's aspects of Rice here. L. K. Hamilton as well, even Cussler like plotting helps to drive the story along (if Dirk Pitt became a vampire - or as Renquist likes to claim: a Nosferatu, then he'd be a bit like Renquist). And while I was captivated by the set up and the opening chapters, Farren complete loses the reader by the end of the book by giving us a simple "cut and run" ending where everything is blown up (thanks to a handy atomic weapon), crashed and burned (the advanced Nazi UFO technology is crashed and buried) and anyone not making it to the next book is killed off (anyone human). It's all over too fast at the end, and instead of working around the problem Farren just opts to vaporize it. In fact, I'm not even sure why this book is even part of the same series. There is simply no clear reason why Renquist, or the rest of his clan, should be involved as they really don't do anything. In the end some good ideas, some solid writing, but too long to get to an end that's over too fast for it have any meaning. For fans of the series only.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
So appallingly bad I've sent copies to friends...
23 Jan 2008
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
...to show them how completely dreadful a book can be. I wrote a long, eloquent review of this book on my blog. Here, let me just say that if you find a copy at a thrift store, have a good sense of humor, and an afternoon to waste, you too can have a "this is the worst book I ever read all of the way through" experience.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Toss this book into the sunlight.........
3 Dec 2002
Format:Hardcover
Farren took on a bit too much with Underland. This most recent attempt to mix the fantasy world of his nosferatu with history and myth falls flat when compared to past successes in the series. Explaining Merlin in More Than Mortal was one thing, but taking on Lovecraft, Nazis, and UFOs in one book was a bit too ambitious. After investing so much time and effort in introducing supposedly integral nosferatu, Farren chooses to focus on several humans in Underland. Darklost in this book are thrown about like so much vampiric flotsam that the importance of being nosferatu is diminished. While Rehnquist is a fascinating character, Farren spends far too much time with him as opposed to other characters such as Julia and the intimidating Lupo, who does nothing but hold Victor's coat in this book. Past characters barely appear on Farren's radar with only a mention of Marieko, Destry, Sagal, Brandon Wales, and Elaine Dance. Other colony members barely warrant but a few lines of dialogue from Farren. The Merlin is cast off as if he never represented the major threat to Rehnquist and instead, we get subterranean Nazis, psychic lizards, and yet another darklost. Underland is a major disappointment that hopefully does not represent the final word on the characters Farren has introduced and readers have appreciated, characters that deserve much better.
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