The Chamber
A Novel
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
And Then There Were None meets The Last Breath in this tense and suspenseful locked-room thriller that takes place inside a hyperbaric chamber from the author of the “brilliant, twisted, and oh so clever” (Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author) novel The Last Thing to Burn.
Six experienced saturation divers are locked inside a hyperbaric chamber. Calm and professional, they know that rapid decompression would be fatal and so they work in shifts, breathing helium, and surviving in hot, close quarters.
Then one of them is found dead in his bunk.
With four days of decompression to go before the locked hatch to the chamber can be safely opened, the group must watch one another’s backs at all times. And when another diver is discovered unresponsive, everyone is on edge. What…or who…is taking them out one by one? And will any of them still be alive by the time the four days is up or will paranoia, exhaustion, suspicion, and pressure destroy them all?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Dean (The Last One) shrewdly reimagines the closed-circle murder mystery in this tense and claustrophobic nail-biter set in an underwater hyperbaric chamber. Ellen Brooke is a rarity: a female saturation diver, trained to plunge up to 1,000 feet underwater and do physical labor under hazardous conditions. She and five male colleagues have been hired by an oil company to conduct maintenance work on an undersea structure at the bottom of the North Sea. For a month, the six will live in a small, pressurized chamber, leaving only in a diving bell to reach the ocean floor. The risky work—mistakes in maintaining the appropriate pressure would be fatal—comes with a lucrative payout, vital to each of the six for different reasons. Things get even more difficult when one of Brooke's fellow divers is found dead inside the group's capsule. Though it may have been an accident, the death causes the cohort's trust to fracture—and when a second member of their party dies, to shatter. Is one of them killing the others to keep the money for themselves? Dean maintains unyielding strain on his characters, brilliantly riffing on a classic setup while flexing his gifts for style and characterization. The results are gripping.
