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Thief of the Deep: A Novel
High-tech diving and piracy among Bermuda's historic shipwrecks combine in taut thriller.
400 pages, Paperback
First published December 29, 1994
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Jon Coon
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Here's a short biography: Now retired, I was an oil field diver, trained in traditional MK-5 Navy dive gear. I specialized in explosives work, mostly with shaped charges, for ten years doing salvage of oil platforms, bridges and ships. I also served as a dive safety officer for NASA, and on academic, archaeological and scientific projects internationally. I completed my dive career as a PADI Course Director and Regional Manager.
I've written three novels, two of which were published in the nineties and are still available. With time to begin writing again, Ghost River, a story about a police diver who uses information he gets from interviewing ghosts to solve crimes, is nearly ready for publication. As we get closer I'll post updates on publication on this site. For those of you who enjoyed the Doc Holiday stories, you're in for a fun ride with Gabriel Jones and his mis-adventures in Ghost River.
Here's a short biography: Now retired, I was an oil field diver, trained in traditional MK-5 Navy dive gear. I specialized in explosives work, mostly with shaped charges, for ten years doing salvage of oil platforms, bridges and ships. I also served as a dive safety officer for NASA, and on academic, archaeological and scientific projects internationally. I completed my dive career as a PADI Course Director and Regional Manager.
I've written three novels, two of which were published in the nineties and are still available. With time to begin writing again, Ghost River, a story about a police diver who uses information he gets from interviewing ghosts to solve crimes, is nearly ready for publication. As we get closer I'll post updates on publication on this site. For those of you who enjoyed the Doc Holiday stories, you're in for a fun ride with Gabriel Jones and his mis-adventures in Ghost River.
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March 5, 2021
This book was disappointing as I was looking forward to liking this story. So let me explain without giving any spoilers away:
- Story (3.5 stars): The story itself was good as I love underwater stories with shipwrecks, U-boats, a little history to learn something. It was a bit choppy in places as you were trying to follow who's point of view you were reading. Very formulaic, predictable, boring, and no plot twists. Main character knows how to solve all the issues. As soon as you read the first few chapters you pretty much know how it's going to end.
- Characters (1 star): The characters were typical stereotypical cardboard cutouts. Girlfriend is portrayed at the beginning as strong, independent, and smart. But as soon as big Daddy comes along she drops several IQ points, abandons all accountabilities, and becomes focused on getting him into bed. It gets old (rolling eyes). Daughter gets kidnapped and Daddy goes after her, who by the way is a former Navy Seal. Gee, does every action story have to have a former Navy Seal get revenge for a loved one (yawn)? Why couldn't he be someone normal who doesn't have military training, like a garbage man, scuba instructor, mail man, factory worker, cab driver, etc. That would have made the story more interesting to see how he would have accomplished getting his daughter back. And for pete's sake, make the women intelligent and not just bimbos! That gets real old, real quick for this reader.
- Blush factor (5 stars): There are some swear words and maybe one f-bomb but it was nice to read an action story that had military and bad guys in it without having them throw out multiple f-bombs and cussing every other word. No sex scenes just innuendos.
- Book Mechanics (2 stars): This book definitely needed at least 1 more editing round. I felt like I was reading a final draft instead of a finished product. Grammar was off in many places, point-of-view jumped around a bit, and sentence structure was jumbled quite a bit at the beginning. But as I got used to it, I could focus on the story.
Overall, the book was okay. Will I re-read the book again? No. I others I want to read instead. If you can get over the mundane items, the story is good. If you like underwater adventure, the diving science is a bit old ("recirculators" instead of rebreathers) but you will get the gist. This is very much a beach or airplane read; basically a one-time and move-on type of read.
- Story (3.5 stars): The story itself was good as I love underwater stories with shipwrecks, U-boats, a little history to learn something. It was a bit choppy in places as you were trying to follow who's point of view you were reading. Very formulaic, predictable, boring, and no plot twists. Main character knows how to solve all the issues. As soon as you read the first few chapters you pretty much know how it's going to end.
- Characters (1 star): The characters were typical stereotypical cardboard cutouts. Girlfriend is portrayed at the beginning as strong, independent, and smart. But as soon as big Daddy comes along she drops several IQ points, abandons all accountabilities, and becomes focused on getting him into bed. It gets old (rolling eyes). Daughter gets kidnapped and Daddy goes after her, who by the way is a former Navy Seal. Gee, does every action story have to have a former Navy Seal get revenge for a loved one (yawn)? Why couldn't he be someone normal who doesn't have military training, like a garbage man, scuba instructor, mail man, factory worker, cab driver, etc. That would have made the story more interesting to see how he would have accomplished getting his daughter back. And for pete's sake, make the women intelligent and not just bimbos! That gets real old, real quick for this reader.
- Blush factor (5 stars): There are some swear words and maybe one f-bomb but it was nice to read an action story that had military and bad guys in it without having them throw out multiple f-bombs and cussing every other word. No sex scenes just innuendos.
- Book Mechanics (2 stars): This book definitely needed at least 1 more editing round. I felt like I was reading a final draft instead of a finished product. Grammar was off in many places, point-of-view jumped around a bit, and sentence structure was jumbled quite a bit at the beginning. But as I got used to it, I could focus on the story.
Overall, the book was okay. Will I re-read the book again? No. I others I want to read instead. If you can get over the mundane items, the story is good. If you like underwater adventure, the diving science is a bit old ("recirculators" instead of rebreathers) but you will get the gist. This is very much a beach or airplane read; basically a one-time and move-on type of read.
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