Ben Gannon

Hold your breath ... He's braved the darkest waters ... but now he's way out of his depth. Ben Gannon is the best deep-sea recovery expert in the business. No salvage is too deep, no job too risky. But when Ben and his crew find several bodies-shot-in a helicopter wreck, the risk becomes more deadly than even the most hostile waters. Lured to an ultra-high-tech oil rig in the middle of the ocean, Gannon finds himself thrown into a deadly game of cat and mouse against a corps of trained killers. Trapped in the balance: the lives of everyone aboard the rig. With no hope of rescue and nowhere to hide, Gannon must survive long enough to stop a murderous fanatic's devastating plans. And if he fails this time, there's no coming up for air. Drawing from his own experiences as a professional oil field diver and independent salvage operator, John McKinna has crafted a white-knuckle thriller of international intrigue and terror that will take your breath away ...

Greed, drug trafficking, kidnapping, and murder The Spanish galleon Arista sank in 1539 due to a storm and the heavy weight of its cargo. The ship had been carrying Aztec golden treasure: chains, goblets, plates, statues, lamps, ceremonial swords, bricks, bars, and coins, all of solid Aztec gold. Much of the gold, however, had been thrown overboard trying to save the ship. Having read a portion of its log, deep sea divers Ben Gannon and Eugene McCluskey were convinced by the descendants of the ship's owner to recover it and its bounty. When the treasure proved to be illusive, the job became treacherous with twists and turns that include greed, drug trafficking, kidnapping, and murder.

A deep-sea thriller. WHERE DANGER LURKS ... Ben Gannon and his girlfriend have sailed across the Pacific for a restful vacation before he reports to work at his next deep-sea diving job. But when they witness a freighter under attack from machine-gun-toting pirates, they find their lives in peril. Reporting the incident does no good, as the authorities find no trace of the ship in their registry. Soon Ben and Sasha are hunted by the dangerous men who seek the ship's valuable cargo-a mysterious cache worth millions on the black market. Trouble is, the doomed freighter lies at the bottom of the ocean. When Sasha falls into the wrong hands, Ben finds himself unwillingly working with the enemy-to retrieve the cargo and stay alive.

Deep-sea diver Ben Gannon owes his life to his friend, Nick, who once saved him from certain death. So when Ben learns that Nick's being held in an African prison by rebel guerrillas, he vows to return the favor. But never has reciprocity required such courage-because Nick's makeshift cell is a dry well on a prison island ... surrounded by shark-infested waters. An explosively real novel of underwater action from an author who's been there ...