Deep Water

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 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, and Coast Guard Commander Kellen Wilder find themselves in a world scramble to gain control of the Donovan 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 in this winner-takes-it-all global power struggle.