This one I didn't read on my phone, this one I had a real hard paper copy of, so quaint and real, an artifact of a forgotten age. I ALSO had it on my phone, though, and I did read a few chapters that way, torn between the ancient and the modern! What will become of me!

Nothing nice, according to Peter Watts. If we thought things were dark on the bottom of the ocean, we had no idea how inky-black things were going to get back on the surface.

In an effort to destroy a planet-threatening microbe, a nuclear bomb was set off at a deep-sea vent, triggering an earthquake and tsunami that killed millions. It was all for nothing, as Leni Clarke swims ashore on the Colorado coast with vengeance in mind and the Behemoth bug in her blood. Everywhere she goes, death follows on a horrible scale, but not from the bug, from the authorities desperate to sterelise Behemoth out of existence. She becomes a legend, a myth, a messiah, and in the howling wilderness that used to be the internet, she inadvertently causes something unprecedented and incredibly dangerous to evolve.

The scope broadens, from the inky depths to the sprawling continent of North America, as forces marshal to help or hinder Leni on her insane odyssey. This is an epic, action-packed tale of doom and destruction, the very bleeding edge of science fiction. Brilliant.