Unit Omega

By Jim Grand

Modern science. Military action. Mind-blowing suspense. In charge of investigating unusual scientific phenomena for the UN, Jim Thomson is the new world authority on the unexplained. But when a world-renowned scientist reports a sighting of the legendary Loch Ness Monster, the disturbance turns out to be much bigger-and more dangerous-than the folklore ever suggested. WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW... CAN HURT YOU.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425193217
• ISBN13: 9780425193211
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Length: 299 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.8" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

Not Military SF

From the front and back covers one would thing this is military SF or at least military fiction. It is not. There is not a single military person in the book and no helicopters (as pictured on the cover).The story revolves around a quantum physicist who has just started a new department in the UN. The department is Unit Omega, it has an annual travel budget of $1,000 and one salary. Not much hope of getting anywhere until a mostly reputable scientist calls and claims to have seen the Loch Ness Monster.Blowing the entire budget on a single trip, our hero enlists the aid of a science magazine writer and it is off to Scotland. What is discovered next is totally unexpected.In the depths of the Loch there is a quantum anomaly that, when properly prodded, can open a gateway to somewhere else. Just where that somewhere else is may be speculated upon but it is not resolved.The story moves quickly with many chapters ending in cliff hangers and teasers. The writing is mostly solid (Jim Grand being a pseudonym) with only two blatant flaws. The firs is that our hero sometimes stops talking like a trained physicist and starts talking like a military grunt. The other flaw is less obvious unless you happen to have read about Loch Ness. In this book the loch has a very low fish population (unless there was a sudden drop-off, Loch Ness supports more salmon than Lake Michigan). But other than that I found the book to be quite entertaining.