Louisiana Blue: A Tiller Galloway Underwater Thriller - Softcover

Poyer, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312954220 ISBN 13: 9780312954222

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1995

Synopsis

Beneath the shimmering surface of the Louisiana Gulf, a deadly scheme is making waves.

Former Navy SEAL Tiller Galloway is running from a vengeful past and needs to make himself scarce. Where better to lie low than under the murky, hazardous depths of the Louisiana Gulf? Galloway is doing the most dangerous kind of diving-- the kind that brings big money. But there's fathomless corruption that could lead to an environmental Armageddon. Now Galloway must look the other way or look into his own watery grave...

In the unforgettable tradition of Clive Cussler and John D. MacDonald, bestselling author David Poyer bring you to the depths of terror with his breathless scenes of undersea adventure.

About this title

About the Author

David Poyer is a sport diver, sailor, and marine engineer whose fifteen novels have entertained millions of readers in many languages around the world. His bestselling sea fiction includes The Med, The Gulf, The Circle, and The Passage. His work is required reading in the Literature of the Sea course at the U.S. Naval Academy, where he was recently a Distinguished Visiting Author. Other Tiller Galloway novels are Hatteras Blue, Bahamas Blue and Down to a Sunless Sea, all available from St. Martin's Paperbacks. He lives in Virginia with his wife and daughter.

From Kirkus Reviews

Deep-sea diver ``Tiller'' Galloway's third adventure (after Bahamas Blue, 1991; Hatteras Blue, 1989) is so weighed down with subplots, techno-claptrap, and tough-guy blather that, when Poyer finally gets to the story, it sinks with nary a bubble. An ex-con, Galloway has fled North Carolina for the Louisiana Gulf coast, hoping to make big money diving for the oil companies. Hired by DeepTech, a small operation owned by Roland ``Bender'' Boudreaux, he joins his new mates in a serious drinking bout (they snort goldfish and drink urine to prove their grit) and a brutal, pointless barroom brawl before heading for Pandora 12, a platform owned by Coastal Oil. On the way, Galloway's helicopter mysteriously crashes, killing three men, one a government official. Tiller escapes, leaving behind an important briefcase (Poyer also leaves behind a body), and finally gets to work on the pipeline, where he remains locked in a l0' x 20' pressurized chamber with the other guys for weeks at a time. (Poyer provides detailed if often unintelligible exposition of their duties.) While inspecting pipeline at 1,200 feet, Tiller reports extensive damage that could lead to an oil spill that would douse the entire Gulf of Mexico. Boudreaux, who's in cahoots with the financially tottering oil company, orders Tiller to falsify the report. He's offered a lot of money, but Tiller's deep-down integrity floats to the surface. Much too slow in developing, the plot doesn't really emerge until the novel is two-thirds over. By then, it's scuttled. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0312954220
• ISBN 13: 9780312954222
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 352