A missing fisherman. A spotless paper trail and a ship full of men nobody will admit exist.
Royal Marine Colour Sergeant Ross Wilder is supposed to be finished with off-book operations. His former unit has been shut down, his damaged left hand is failing and four weeks of enforced leave lie ahead.
Then an old contact gives him the name of a Ghanaian fisherman who vanished after sailing from Fleetwood.
The agency says Joel Adjei returned home. Border records support the claim. He appears on no crew list, and without evidence that he stayed in Britain, the police have no missing person to investigate.
Wilder starts looking anyway.
His search leads from the Lancashire docks to an Isle of Man recruitment agency moving foreign workers through fishing fleets, warehouses and converted vessels. The companies are registered. The travel bookings are genuine. Each authority holds paperwork proving that responsibility belongs somewhere else.
While the system passes Joel’s name from desk to desk, more men disappear.
At the centre of it is the Rona Star, a converted workboat carrying dozens of undocumented crew into dangerous winter waters. When the vessel begins to fail, Wilder is trapped aboard with men whose deaths have already been prepared for on paper.
Survival is only the beginning. Because even if Wilder brings them home, he must still prove they were ever there.
Deep Six is the third explosive Ross Wilder thriller from Amazon bestselling author Geordie Jackson: a hard, authentic story of modern slavery, maritime disaster and a Royal Marine prepared to cross the line when the law refuses to see the dead.
Genre: Thriller
Royal Marine Colour Sergeant Ross Wilder is supposed to be finished with off-book operations. His former unit has been shut down, his damaged left hand is failing and four weeks of enforced leave lie ahead.
Then an old contact gives him the name of a Ghanaian fisherman who vanished after sailing from Fleetwood.
The agency says Joel Adjei returned home. Border records support the claim. He appears on no crew list, and without evidence that he stayed in Britain, the police have no missing person to investigate.
Wilder starts looking anyway.
His search leads from the Lancashire docks to an Isle of Man recruitment agency moving foreign workers through fishing fleets, warehouses and converted vessels. The companies are registered. The travel bookings are genuine. Each authority holds paperwork proving that responsibility belongs somewhere else.
While the system passes Joel’s name from desk to desk, more men disappear.
At the centre of it is the Rona Star, a converted workboat carrying dozens of undocumented crew into dangerous winter waters. When the vessel begins to fail, Wilder is trapped aboard with men whose deaths have already been prepared for on paper.
Survival is only the beginning. Because even if Wilder brings them home, he must still prove they were ever there.
Deep Six is the third explosive Ross Wilder thriller from Amazon bestselling author Geordie Jackson: a hard, authentic story of modern slavery, maritime disaster and a Royal Marine prepared to cross the line when the law refuses to see the dead.
Genre: Thriller
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