Black Water

by Lucas Pederson

One thousand feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, Hell awaits.

The Cartel have found a new way to transport drugs: underwater tunnels. Hot on their trail, is newly recruited Border Elite Patrol Officer Andy and a team of hardcore mercenaries. He soon finds himself in a web of corruption and no one can be trusted.

When the Cartel damages their minisub, Andy and the small team he's assigned to are tossed into the dark tunnels. With only their special suits and rifles, they must finish the mission.

But they soon realize they're not alone in the tunnels.

Survival is everything...

Genres: Horror

152 pages, Paperback

Published July 8, 2020

About the author

Lucas Pederson is an American novelist and short story writer of horror, dark fantasy, young adult and science fiction. He lives in a small Iowa town with his family and they're all pretty sure their cat is an alien. He can be reached at lucaspederson@yahoo.com, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

Reviews

[William · Rating 4 out of 5]

Entertaining relationship listening 🎶🔰

This kindle e-book novella is from my Kindle Unlimited account stand alone book.

Andy and friends are involved with as undercover agents working against a drug Lord. It turns out to be a set up. Lot of action misdirection, and violence under the Gulf of Mexico as they are attacked by sharks. A great ending!

I would recommend this novella and author to 👍 readers of action adventure thriller mystery novels 👍🔰. 2024 😤😆

[Elizabeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bloody and gore

Starts out slow and does Repeat a few Sentences, but other than that it's the perfect book tinder back and read , because you have no idea if the characters are going to make it out alive or become food.

[Jordan · Rating 2 out of 5]

There was entirely too much going on here. It was hard to keep straight who was who, who was on what side, who was doing what. I felt my eyes crossing sometimes trying to keep everyone straight.

I did like Sully's character a lot though. He was my favourite of everyone in the book. He added some humour to the story and I thought he gave the story a bit more dimension. His character was the only one who felt real to me.

I thought the action got pretty repetitive after awhile. People seemed to get eaten in the exact same manner and the scares came the exact same way. It took away some of the horror of the story for me because I felt like I was just reading the same scenes with different people.

I wanted to like this since I love underwater horror, but it just didn't to it for me.

[Matt Egan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Entertaining but somewhat stupid underwater thriller. An elite team, ostensibly sent into an underwater cave system to assist the Gulf Cartel smuggling cocaine through the US border through the caves, but end up with the cocaine being fake and the team was sent to kill their "leader" and the plan fails when the sub takes incoming fire from the cartel as mysterious creatures, eventually revealed to be enormous goblin sharks, with a great white and a tiger shark in the mix. Once the attacks start, most of the team is eaten, and only the protagonist and one other team member survive.

[Lisa Elliott · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow interesting story

First time reading this author. It was a fast pace action filled story. It had a lot of betrayals, it seemed everything that was going on was a lie and you did not know who to trust. I would love to have a life suit that they used. I hope this never becomes a reality. Get the books and leave your reviews.

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Slow, confusing start until the first shark bite

This book had a very confusing start with lots of lies and betrayals but it really got going after the first shark bite. Interesting story premise, crazy drug lord and lots of sharks made this a good read.

[Cody · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun read

Quick read. Held my attention as the action started to pickup about halfway into the story and didn't stop until the end.

[Terry and dog · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lucas Pederson does underwater well, and underwater ...things, very well. The action, claustrophobic feel, and horror are here in spades.