Red on the surface changes colour at depth and thin green streamers wavered away from where the spear had entered his side. Small fish darted in to nose at the rapidly diffusing blood. Then he almost stopped moving altogether, floating up against the ripped steel, his fins twitching nervously ... Murder, kidnap, rape, theft ... How much will Nigel Ryan and his friends have to endure because he stumbled across a secret he wasn't meant to have? Who among them will end up paying the ultimate price? When does he start to fight back? But identifying the real enemy to go up against turns out to be the biggest problem of all ... The author Jack Welles has had a varied working life: from seeing action as a professional soldier through flying helicopters commercially to his own practice as an attorney. He is a full time writer based in a small village on False Bay near Cape Town, South Africa, and is married with one son.