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IN2DEEP
By Tony Groom
“The awesome sound bypassed his eardrums.
It penetrated through bone and flesh,
through muscle and skull.
It drove deep into his core, dislocating all senses.
He lay, useless, at the bottom of the hold, in the foetal position, and as helpless as a baby.”
IN2DEEPis the best nautical thriller in decades. The pace never wavers from the first page, which finds ex-Navy diver, Nick Carter illegally retrieving a valuable cannon from the depths of the Mediterranean.
Then Nick has unwelcome visitors. Boarded, beaten and left for dead off the coast of Africa, Nick gives chase. But, his attackers have stolen something far more valuable than money.
While in pursuit, Nick stumbles across a terrorist plot which could return Europe to the Dark Ages. The action then rampages across Morocco, through the ancient streets of Fes, into Casablanca, and culminates in a bloody confrontation in the normally tranquil waters of Gibraltar.
"In this page-turner, Groom is writing about what he knows. An exciting plot is all the more believable because it's grounded in his experience and the realism shines through every page. It's a great story with a hero whose flaws make him utterly believable - I can't wait for the sequel."
Sarah Fletcher - Navy News.
IN2DEEPis a new type of action thriller, and from a new author who knows about what it is like to be under fire. Like Bravo Two Zero, In2Deep is the direct result of the author's combat experience.
Unlike Bravo Two Zero, In2Deep has a nautical setting. It is a stylish and action-packed thriller. In2Deep is fiction, but reads like fact, and that is because of the author’s hands-on experience of being at war.
IN2DEEPis written in a direct and engaging style, which embroils the reader inside a breathless adventure ON, IN, and UNDER the waves.
Author Tony Groom, was in the navy for ten years, and his specialist training included, bomb and mine disposal and attack swimmer. This underwater day-job also involved the recovery of crashed aircraft, bodies, and working alongside the SAS and SBS.
Tony served in the Falklands Conflict, behind enemy lines, and worked on UXB’s lodged inside British warships. IN2DEEP is his first novel, and follows his highly successful memoir DIVER, which dealt with his time in the Falklands and deep sea saturation diving.
More information about the author, interviews and review copies, contact: Tony Groom
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.Click the book to order £9.95..DIVER is a book about a life underwater. I have been paid to dive since I was 17, I am now 51! An enviable position to many I’m sure. I have been diving all over the world, well almost! From the south Pacific, to the war torn Falkland Islands during the conflict in 1982. Searching for mines down there or quickly evolving our EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal)skills, repairing bomb damaged ships during air raids, all set me up for a career that never had a dull moment.
"Why don't you write it all down?" I had never ever thought about it. But I started one night and it just flowed out of me. Day and night for about 9 months, I wrote and re-wrote about my diving life. About the intensive training in the Navy required to become a sneaky beaky ‘attack swimmer’. Getting trained in re-breathers that give out no bubbles, enabling you to sabotage ships, or work on mines unseen and undetected.
About life at sea on a warship as a member of the closely knit team on board, and my part in a war at the age on 23. The jobs that came my way over the years were so wide and so varied, I needed 330 pages to get some of it down. I've dived for mines, sunken helicopters, trawlers, cars, bodies and stolen money, to name a few. Then it seemed to flow effortlessly into my career out of the forces.
In 1985 I left the Royal Navy and had to go in search on employment as a commercial diver. I soon found myself in some of the dodgiest areas of Africa in the oil industry. I then did years of deep-sea-diving (down to 700 ft / 220 meters) saturation diving in the North Sea oil fields. This is diving like no other. Between 6 and 8 hours a day, actually in the water, everyday for 28 days at a time..
I then embarked on what everyone told me would be the hardest part of the operation, getting a publisher. I thought I’d try and get it some kudos first, so I wrote to an Ex naval officer who commanded the amphibious task force in 1982 to the Falklands, Michael Clapp CB. I asked him if he would consider writing a foreword. He sounded enthusiastic and once he read the book he immediately said yes. He then suggested I send it to Seafarer Books to see what they said. He wrote me an introduction and . . . well, the rest is history.
The foreword is written by Sir Jonathon Band, KBC ADC, First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval staff. Michael Clapp CB, has been instrumental in getting all these high ranking officers, serving and retired, to first read it, and then write about it. Major General Julian Thompson CB,OBE, then wrote a superb piece for the back cover.See book reviews.
Julian was the commander of 3 Brigade in the Falklands and is one of the most recognised military historians in the United Kingdom, on TV and in print, so is eminently qualified to give the book some credence.
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