Pressure Lock
A Novel of Deep Sea Suspense

About this book:

Six hundred feet beneath the North Sea, four saturation divers are locked in a steel tube the size of a shipping container. Their tissues are saturated with helium; the only way out is a twelve-day decompression that cannot be rushed, paused, or aborted. When a fifth man is found bludgeoned in the wet pot, the crime scene is sealed with them inside—and the killer has nowhere to run. But neither do the witnesses.

With the CCTV sabotaged, the murder weapon traced to their own emergency kit, and a crumpled note clutched in the victim’s fist, the remaining crew must solve the murder while fighting the creeping madness of High-Pressure Nervous Syndrome, the bone-deep cold of a helium atmosphere, and the terrifying certainty that the next body could be theirs. Topside can only watch. The police are eighty miles away and three atmospheres of pressure removed from jurisdiction.

In a world where a sneeze can rupture an eardrum and a panic attack can kill the whole team, the truth is the only thing that can bring them to the surface alive. *Pressure Lock* is a masterclass in claustrophobic suspense—*The Abyss* meets *And Then There Were None*, where the walls are closing in, the air is turning toxic, and the murderer is breathing the same recycled helium as you.