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EPIC Award Winner

“Wild ride, in-depth characters, compelling plot, cutting-edge issues.” Marq de Villiers, prize winning author, Order of Canada award.

“Masterful, high-stakes suspense thriller.” Lisa Turner, best selling mystery writer, Edgar Award nominee.

A disaster lurks beneath the ocean floor.

A riveting Jack Strider suspense

Deep in the Earth’s crust beneath the Pacific Ocean lies an ancient site likely to be the birthplace of life on our planet . . .

And a portal into unimaginable forces and incredible wealth . .

A place where large ships mysteriously disappear, including the vessel carrying Jack Strider’s goddaughter, Katie . . .

A greedy energy baron risks everything to pursue vast supplies of power trapped deep in the Pacific Ocean sea bed off the Oregon coast. But the man’s psychopathic scheme is about to launch a terrifying tsunami that will destroy the entire west coast of the United States. Strider’s beautiful, brilliant partner in law and love joins the fight, and Jack leads a desperate attack on the largest offshore platform ever built. Jack Strider may be the only man who can stop the disaster that is already underway . . . or maybe no one can.

Rob Sangster’s first Jack Strider novel, GROUND TRUTH, was #1 on Amazon Kindle. His second, DEEP TIME, won the 2017 EPIC Award for best suspense/thriller of the year. A Stanford lawyer with experience in finance, politics, and public service, he’s an avid sailor who has travelled to more than 100 countries. Rob and his mystery writer wife divide their time between their homes in Tennessee and on the wild coast of Nova Scotia.

258 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 18, 2015

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August 2, 2015
Deep Time by Rob Sangster

Rob Sangster has done it again. Great read with fly by the seat of your pants action and adventure. This book has everything it takes to make a great read.

Jack is back and it’s very personal. Jack’s goddaughter, Katie, a radar operator on the Greenpeace ship Aleutian is missing, the Aleutian attached by the Japan Whaling Ship Nikita Maru has disappeared. Jack calls in Steve Drake and who discovers the Aleutian on the ocean floor, all aboard are lost. The action begins on the first page and continues as you read about the Aleutian sinking, what’s Steve Drake’s agenda for agreeing to hunt for the Aleutian. What happened to Aleutian to make it sink, what is the mystery of giant platform the billionaire Barbas built-in the Pacific ocean and what’s really behind his almost frantic need to hire Jack’s law firm? There is something very big going on in the Pacific Ocean! There is mining on the ocean floor, methane gases, vents, and so much more. So many questions that Mr. Sangster will tie into a nice package by the end of the story. This is a full on, nonstop action story with elements of murder, tsunamis, greed, tension, love, hidden agendas, disasters in the making, world-changing disasters, and truly evil villains that Jack must stop at all costs.

The plots, twists, and turns, just kept coming one after the other. The character development was spot on, evil villains, the good guys and girls, and politics, of course. The theory of the vents and gases really made me think and the theories fit so well with what can really be going on in the Bermuda Triangle. Mr. Sangster obviously had done his research in the area of methane hydrate and vent tubes. This was very interesting. Great story that will hold your interest from the beginning to the end, the story never lagged, and as with all good adventure stories, Mr. Sangster created truly evil villains. I wanted to finish the book in one sitting; I didn’t want to put it down.

I recommend this book to anyone that likes a good solid story full of action and adventure.

I received this book from the publisher and Netgalley in return for an honest opinion.
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Author 5 books4 followers
July 17, 2015
Attorney Jack Strider returns in another thriller, and author Rob Sangster puts him through his heroic and angst-filled paces. A villain worthy of James Bond has created an offshore threat to the world. Armed with his wits, his fists and very little else, the thoroughly modern (read conflicted) hero Strider opposes the villain.

It’s all here: a unique but not-too-far-fetched plot idea related to (very) deep-water drilling, a power-crazed business baron, a mad scientist looking for the cure, a smart and tough woman, a hard-drinking sidekick, barroom brawls, explosions, father issues and a pitched battle on a giant drilling platform 200 miles out at sea.

A terrific yarn, from start to finish. Glad you’re back, Jack.
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July 27, 2015
If the threat of a giant tsunami won’t deter a greedy tycoon from mining a deep-sea vent in international waters off the Oregon Coast, what will? Dashing lawyer and do-gooder, Jack Strider, backed by his beautiful and brilliant law partner, Debra Vanderberg, and colorful pilot and daredevil, Gano LeMoyne, of course. Throw this team in with mad scientists, methane burps, helicopters, a miniature sub, a gigantic sea platform, and cutting-edge science and you have Deep Time, an eco thriller that will make you question the wisdom of living on the West Coast.
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Author 1 book3 followers
December 4, 2015
Sangster hit it out of the park with this one. I literally couldn't put it down. A thriller that had me literally holding my breath in fear, then laughing out loud a few pages later, then hoping this ethical lawyer-hero hadn't screwed up his love life while he was saving the world from an oceanic disaster. And you never know where it's going next. I see a movie in this book and I'll be first in line.
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September 17, 2018
I am new to the Jack Strider books. I bought this due to the setting being in the Pacific Northwest. It seems like a cross between a John Grisham and Clive Cussler novel. Enjoyable book dealing with a billionaire, good guys, bad guys, underwater earthquakes, exploration and methane.
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March 5, 2018
Clive Cussler take off

Okay if you like Clive Cussler type stories. Hero gets in more scrapes then Dirk Pitt and comes through being only a lawyer.
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June 15, 2016
I didn't like this book as much as the first one. I liked seeing the characters from the first book and the addition of Molly was good. I thought the story was too long. I did not like the end at all.
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December 23, 2015
Good story

Interesting, but not out together extremely well. It seems stories come out of nowhere at of times. Regardless, it is a good book and worth reading.
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