‘Lovejoy has proven himself a master storyteller.’ — Clive Cussler

Dane Brande is the man behind Marine Visions, an underwater vehicle development and research company in California.His girlfriend, Kaylene Rae Thomas, is the President of the company but Brande is still haunted by the memory of his wife’s traumatic death; she drowned on their honeymoon after getting trapped in a shipwreck whilst scuba diving.This makes Brande all the more protective over Rae in their underwater adventures.Paul Deride is a force to be reckoned with. Reaching six foot four, he has a huge presence and a multibillion dollar mining company called AquaGeo; people don’t say no to Paul Deride.But when Deride asks to buy a submarine off Brande for two and a half million dollars, Brande does exactly that.Deride’s heir to AquaGeo is Penny Glenn, an intelligent geologist who Deirde put through school and now pays her millions to work in the company.But they are both greedy, headstrong characters, and surely soon their selfishness will get the better of them?When the National Center for Earthquake Information reported a pattern of small earthquakes twenty thousand feet below the ocean surface, Brande and his team are sent to investigate.It is thought that they are man-made and if the disturbances carry on their current pattern, they could trigger the San Andreas Fault line and put millions of people living in California in danger.When Mark Jacobs, a campaigner for Greenpeace, and Wilson Overton the journalist, hear of this news they are quick to follow Brande’s team deep in to the Pacific to see the story unfold.But it quickly becomes clear that foul play is unfolding below the surface…could Deride be behind the dangerous explosions?Will he let nothing stand in the way of his profit, even when there is a death in the water?With only days to go until Deride could set off a highly destructive earthquake that would rip through western America, and with the odds stacked against him, the clock is ticking for Brande to do everything in his power to stop Deride’s greed and prevent thousands of deaths.Will he pull it off?

Ocean Black is a gripping, modern naval adventure which will thrill to the very last page.