Review - Deep Water by Deborah Coonts

My Copy of the Book

Year Published: 2017

Genre: Crime; Suspense

Blurb:

Oil—the currency of global economic power. Alter the supply a country controls; alter the power they wield. 

Patrick Donovan, Texas wildcatter, sitting on a deep-water well, has tapped into a reservoir so vast it could totally alter the balance of economic power. 

A software scatter-bomb planted in the trading software at the New York Mercantile Exchange. A software security engineer is killed.

And the price of oil is dropping like a stone.

Donovan goes missing, and an influential senior Senator from Texas is presumed dead.

Sam Donovan, Patrick’s daughter, finds herself in the bullseye of a world scramble to gain control of her father’s well. A helicopter pilot operating between the rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, Sam knows how the game is played. 

But this time, the stakes are life and death.

As a hurricane bears down on the Gulf of Mexico, a man with everything to lose sets in motion sets in motion a disaster that will bring down the global oil market.

The price of oil will skyrocket.

Sam, with help from Commander Kellen Wilder of the U.S. Coast Guard, must avert disaster before global economic stability is forever altered.

About the Author:

Deborah Coonts swears she was switched at birth. Coming from a family of homebodies, Deborah is the odd women out, happiest with a passport, a high-limit credit card, her computer, and changing scenery outside her window. Goaded by an insatiable curiosity, she flies airplanes, rides motorcycles, travels the world, and pretends to be more of a badass than she probably is. Deborah is the author of the Lucky O’Toole Vegas Adventure series, a romantic mystery romp through Sin City. Wanna Get Lucky?, the first in the series, was a New York Times Notable Crime Novel and a double RITA ™ Award Finalist. Her contemporary romance inclinations found wing in The Heart of Napa series, set amid the bucolic vineyards of Napa. For thrills and dark mystery, she penned, After Me, an iBooks Best Of and a Nook First choice. And to further flex her writing abilities, Deborah penned the Sam Donovan series, a romance suspense series highlighting her love of flight. Right now, Deborah calls San Francisco home, but, since it’s her we’re talking about, this too can change.

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My Take on the Book:
This book pulled me in from the first chapter; and towards the end of the story, the novel switches between different POV's and story-lines. In the beginning there were quite a few minor characters, but as the story went on, you got the drift of the main characters. I ended up giving the book a four star rating, and got an ARC ebook in exchange for an honest review.

Last Word:
This is the second book that I've read by Deborah Coonts, and it's difficult to choose which is my favourite one between the two. I have come to love Deborah's writing style. Oh - another thing I forgot to add - I REALLY liked Kellen Wilder.

Enjoy,
Carmen.