Twenty-Eight Days at Pressure
A North Sea Thriller

About this book:

Four hundred and sixty feet beneath the North Sea, the pressure crushes steel, distorts voices into helium cartoons, and turns a single breath into heavy labor. When a wellhead blows apart on the Brent Charlie platform, killing a young diver and threatening the platform's integrity, saturation diver Ross MacBride is locked into a month-long compression with three other men in a steel tube the size of a subway car. Their mission: weld the fracture, cap the leak, and get the oil flowing before the quarter ends. But the fracture wasn't caused by pressure—it was already there, hidden by the company that owns the air they breathe.

As the *Deep Explorer* heaves over the blowout site, Ross discovers the seabed holds more than twisted metal. Radioactive tracer containers were loaded onto the supply boat before the accident. The company man on the platform is already writing the official narrative. And somewhere in the black silt beneath the collapsed guide frame, a twenty-four-year-old diver's umbilical was severed clean—by something no wrench could cut.

*Twenty-Eight Days at Pressure* is a masterclass in claustrophobic thriller writing, where the true enemy isn't the crushing depth or the freezing dark, but the calculus of corporate liability measured in barrels per day. For fans of *The Abyss*, *Pressure*, and *The Martian*—if Mark Watney worked a torque wrench in a saturation habitat while his employers decided whether he was an asset or a write-off.