Seven men are on the engine room floor of the steamer Ellsworth Bain, a hundred and ninety feet down, and the state has sealed her. One family wants them left. One wants them found.
Jack Tolliver dives with one working arm and a shoulder that will not come above eighty degrees, and the state of Michigan has made the "Ellsworth Bain" a grave: no entry, no contact, no exception. He has taken the job anyway, for a client who has waited fifty years and a wreck that has never been inside on camera.
What he is proposing is a hundred and ninety feet on air, a fourteen-foot ladder trunk into black water, and ninety-four feet of penetration on a hose that reaches ninety-six. What he needs is a record so exact that a court cannot argue with it — every bearing, every depth, every hand he puts on structure, spoken aloud onto tape while he does it. The families are divided. The permit forbids what he is about to do. And down on the floorplates in the dark, the reason the "Bain" went down is still there, waiting for somebody to bring the light.
The fourth Black Water Salvage thriller.
Genre: Thriller
Jack Tolliver dives with one working arm and a shoulder that will not come above eighty degrees, and the state of Michigan has made the "Ellsworth Bain" a grave: no entry, no contact, no exception. He has taken the job anyway, for a client who has waited fifty years and a wreck that has never been inside on camera.
What he is proposing is a hundred and ninety feet on air, a fourteen-foot ladder trunk into black water, and ninety-four feet of penetration on a hose that reaches ninety-six. What he needs is a record so exact that a court cannot argue with it — every bearing, every depth, every hand he puts on structure, spoken aloud onto tape while he does it. The families are divided. The permit forbids what he is about to do. And down on the floorplates in the dark, the reason the "Bain" went down is still there, waiting for somebody to bring the light.
The fourth Black Water Salvage thriller.
Genre: Thriller
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