The ice road is open. Three trucks have gone through it. Only one of them was an accident.
Winter on Lake Superior, and the county has a problem it cannot say out loud. Vehicles keep going through the ice on a private bypass, the claims keep paying, and a man is missing that everybody has already agreed to call a drowning.
Jack Tolliver goes under the ice because he is the only diver within two hundred miles who will. He finds the truck. He finds what was loaded in it. And two hundred feet down-seam of the ridge, in dead black water under a ceiling he cannot break, he finds three more — chained, canvas-wrapped, sitting on the trench lip in a line too neat to be luck.
There is an adjuster on the ice with a folding table and a smile. There is a plow operator who knows exactly where the thin seam runs. And there is a warm spell coming that will take the whole road down and every answer under it. Under the ice, there is no such thing as swimming up.
The second Black Water Salvage thriller.
Genre: Thriller
Winter on Lake Superior, and the county has a problem it cannot say out loud. Vehicles keep going through the ice on a private bypass, the claims keep paying, and a man is missing that everybody has already agreed to call a drowning.
Jack Tolliver goes under the ice because he is the only diver within two hundred miles who will. He finds the truck. He finds what was loaded in it. And two hundred feet down-seam of the ridge, in dead black water under a ceiling he cannot break, he finds three more — chained, canvas-wrapped, sitting on the trench lip in a line too neat to be luck.
There is an adjuster on the ice with a folding table and a smile. There is a plow operator who knows exactly where the thin seam runs. And there is a warm spell coming that will take the whole road down and every answer under it. Under the ice, there is no such thing as swimming up.
The second Black Water Salvage thriller.
Genre: Thriller
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