I've read a few Terence Strong novels before, and I find his writing an effort at times, as is the case here. Deadwater Deep sounds immensely exciting on the back cover, but is in fact immensely dull. The contrived and stretched plot plods along for hundreds of pages, before being poorly tied up in a few dozen pages at the end, with an extremely inplausible close that is the only action in the whole book. Strong's depiction of American characters is awful (unless they really do say "Bloody hell" and other British-isms a lot) and there are few, if any, significant plot twists. The whole thing is hard work, which is a shame as the subject matter, treated better, could make for a cracking read.