Thin Air

When Harold Fletcher starts having nightmares about people and ships vanishing before his eyes - he does not want to believe at first that what he is seeing is actual memory. Memory that has been deliberatly supressed over many years by a "government service psychartrist" of all surviving members of the ship USS Sturman.However, when Nicholas Hammond of Naval Intelligence gets a call for help from an old friend he ends up hunting down a mystery and conspiracy deeper and older than he or Harold Fletcher could imagine.This book is well written. Part detective story, Part thriller, part horror and part SF story. After you read this, watch the movie "The Philadelphia experiment". You'll be amazed at the basic simlarties and this book was written long before that movie was made. Published in 1977 this can not be called a new book, but it's a very memorable, and still readable book that hasn't dated too badly.

With all of the government projects in the works during world war II, could this have happened. Who knows. This novel will really keep you interested. There actually was a n project during wwII that had many of the facets included in Thin Air. Truck mounted deagaussers (electromagnetic coils), were positioned around an DE (destroyer escort). Supposedly, the idea was to render the ship invisible to certain electromagnetic frequences. If this was intended to cloak the vessel entirely or not I haven't a clue.From what I have seen and read, the entire experiment is still classified. I don't have any idea what really hppened, but the novel tells a plausible story.Read it. Very good

An excellent novel. About Naval experiments done to crew members and the effects these experiments brought about years later. Crew members having nightmares about a ship vanishing from under them and dissapearing itno "thin air". Crew members breaking from the safety of interconnected hands and "going zero" and "getting locked out". Well worth a read. Great plot with lots of twists. I have read it about half a dozen times and it gets better every time!

Everyone that I know that has read this book was fascinated by the pace and intrigue of this book. I lost my copy and would be willing to pay to get another copy. Can anyone help??

This has to be one of the best Science Fiction/Mystery novels ever written. Based on the Philadelphia Experiment, it's a mystery combining fact and fiction that you can't put down until the last page. The back cover says it all... "They faded...They went zero...The men, the ship, everything. They disappeared into...".