Deep Water |
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| Author:
| Coonts, Deborah |
| ISBN: | 978-1-944831-72-1 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2017 |
| Publisher: | Chestnut Street Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $27.99 |
Book Description:
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Oil'the currency of global economic power. OPEC has controlled the vast majority of the supply, using their power to call the world to heel. Patrick Donovan, Texas wildcatter, sitting on a deep-water well, has tapped into a reservoir so vast it could totally alter the balance of economic power. A software scatterbomb planted in the trading software at the New York Mercantile Exchange, a dead software security engineer, and the price of oil dropping like a stone'someone with a lot to...
More DescriptionOil'the currency of global economic power. OPEC has controlled the vast majority of the supply, using their power to call the world to heel. Patrick Donovan, Texas wildcatter, sitting on a deep-water well, has tapped into a reservoir so vast it could totally alter the balance of economic power. A software scatterbomb planted in the trading software at the New York Mercantile Exchange, a dead software security engineer, and the price of oil dropping like a stone'someone with a lot to lose is playing a desperate game. Drayton Lewis is that man. A tech magnate with his vast wealth invested in alternative fuels, his future rides on the price of oil rising to Stratospheric levels.When Donovan goes missing, and an influential senior Senator from Texas is presumed dead, Sam Donovan, Patrick's daughter, finds herself in the bullseye of a world scramble to gain control of her father's well. A helicopter pilot operating between the rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, Sam knows how the game is played. But this time, the stakes are higher than ever.Grady O?Dell, Chief of Staff for the senator who has disappeared and Shelby Walker, a reporter and the sister of the dead software security analyst also hold keys to the puzzle.As a hurricane bears down on the Gulf of Mexico, and with the threads of his plot starting to unravel, Drayton Lewis, holds Shelby and Grady hostage as his people on board Donovan's drilling platform, set in motion a disaster that will bring down the global oil market, and launch the price ever higher.Sam, with help from Commander Kellen Wilder of the U.S. Coast Guard, must rescue Grady and Shelby and avert the disaster before global economic stability is forever altered.