THE TILLER GALLOWAY NOVELS

Diving Adventure by David Poyer

Published by St. Martin's Press

Welcome to Tiller Galloway's home page. (That's not Tiller at left; it's me in the Abacos, more than a few years ago.) Some fans have asked me if the order of publication is the same as the flow of time within the books themselves. I try to craft each book so it stands alone. But if you prefer to read a series in order, I recommend beginning with Hatteras Blue, then proceeding to Bahamas Blue, Louisiana Blue, and Down to a Sunless Sea. If you want to start with the best written, I think Sunless is the best yet -- but some fans disagree! I'm in negotiation for the next Galloway book now.

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DOWN TO A SUNLESS SEA

When Bud Kusczk dies in a diving accident, his widow Monica begs his old SEAL buddy "Tiller" Galloway to come to Florida and help her sell their cave-diving business. Gradually Galloway learns Kusczk's death was no accident. A corrupt Park Service and a smoke-and-mirrors Wilderness Conservancy are conspiring to remold the entire Styx River spring system into a "preserve" that will actually monopolize the valuable water for shadowy and omnipotent Florida Foliage, Inc. It won't be easy to crack this one. But if he can't, Galloway will die in the icy labyrinth that lies beneath the smiling, sunny land called Florida. Available in paperback from St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0-312-96407-2. Download first chapter.

See the First Editions/Collector's Items page for autographed copies of the first edition hardcover.

LOUISIANA BLUE

Broke and on the run, Galloway has to make himself scarce. Where better to lie low than beneath the murky, hazardous depths of the Gulf of Mexico? A thousand feet beneath the surface, commercial oilfield diving uses men up and sometimes kills them. But the pay, and the things it brings, seem worth the risk. Till he discovers corruption on the ocean floor that could lead to an environmental Armageddon. Either he looks the other way, or faces his own burial at sea . . . a sea that soon begins to show its violent temper. "An edge-of-your-chair thriller" -- St Augustine Record. St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0-312-95422-0.

See the First Editions/Collector's Items page for autographed copies of the first edition hardcover.

BAHAMAS BLUE

Tiller Galloway swore he'd never work for "The Baptist" again. Till the menacing kingpin makes him an offer he can't refuse, sending him four hundred feet into the emerald Caribbean to raise fifty tons of cocaine -- a dive to the razor's edge of death. Caught in the corssfire of a crazed underboss and hostile islanders, Tiller takes on a nightmare of doublecrosses, as a scenario more sinister than he ever imagined begins to unfold. "Plenty of built-in tension" -- The New York Times. .St. Martin's Press paperback, ISBN 0-312-92846-7.

See the First Editions/Collector's Items page for autographed copies of the first edition hardcover (your choice, English or US first editions).

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HATTERAS BLUE

Lyle "Tiller" Galloway III, from Hatteras, North Carolina, is the black sheep of a heroic Coast Guard family. A SEAL in Vietnam, he was discharged for drug use. Later he drifted into smuggling, using his commercial diving business as a cover. Now he's out of prison, trying to go straight, but having a tough time of it. In this opening book of the series, the residents of Hatteras Island aren't talking about the U-boat that went down in 1945, or about the bodies of the three crewmen that have been uncovered beneath a sand dune after so many decades. But their reappearance has attracted someone's attention. Someone willing to bomb Galloway's boat and kill any witnesses. "There can be no better writer of modern sea adventure around today." -- Clive Cussler. St. Martin's Press paperback, ISBN 0-312-92749-5.

See the First Editions/Collector's Items page for autographed copies of the very scarce first edition hardcover.

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