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Turks and Chaos: Hostile Waters coming as an audiobook!

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Update: Should be available in mid-May, according to the narrator. Listen here from ScubaRadio, May 5 2018:

 

This weekend on ScubaRadio I announced that Turks and Chaos: Hostile Waters is now in production as an audiobook!

CJ Goodearl is the voice-over artist who has voiced my previous three audiobooks (Oil and Water, Return to Cayman: Paradise Held Hostage and Lyin’ Fish). He does a fantastic job making these stories come alive. If you haven’t had a chance to listen to one of these stories, check them out.

Turks and Chaos: Hostile Waters came out at the end of 2017 and is set entirely on an Explorer Ventures liveaboard dive boat in Turks and Caicos. The story includes several cast members from ScubaRadio as well and this audiobook will include the real voices of some of the people who were on board the trip. We did the same thing with Lyin’ Fish.

The audiobook version of Turks and Chaos: Hostile Waters will be available in April. If you haven’t listened to the first three stories CJ produced, you are missing out. Get started listening to them now and enjoy an island adventure while you are in your car or at the gym.

Shout out

I’d like to say a quick shout out to Explorer Ventures for allowing me to set my story on board one of their boats. I think it makes the story that much more real to have a tangible location. I’ve cruised with Explorer Ventures. If you are looking to get to sea for a week and have a blast diving, I highly recommend them.

 

Turks and Chaos: Hostile Water novella now available

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The latest thriller novella the Mike Scott series, Turks and Chaos: Hostile Waters, is now available across all ebook formats at a special introductory price, author Eric Douglas announced.

The ninth installment in the Mike Scott series is a thriller novella.

“I wanted to challenge myself with this story a bit. No bringing in outside help or equipment. This story is entirely set on board a liveaboard dive boat,” Douglas said. “Most of the Mike Scott stories feature the location as an additional character, but this was different. It was confining, but also liberating at the same time. I had to focus on characters and limit them to what was onboard.”

Turks and Chaos: Hostile Waters

Armed gunmen board a liveaboard dive boat near Turks and Caicos in this sea story/action thriller. News photographer Mike Scott is on a dive vacation and gets taken hostage when the theft doesn’t go as planned. When the identity of the head pirate is exposed, he declares that all the passengers will die when they reach their destination. It’s up to Mike, the passengers and crew to overcome the pirates and save their own lives. It doesn’t help matters that there is a mole on board feeding the pirates information and they are heading right into a storm. Now they must rebel against the pirates and take the boat back before time runs out…

Diving fans will also recognize some characters in the book. Douglas based this story on ScubaRadio’s 20th Anniversary Scuba Cruise. Greg Holt from ScubaRadio is a major character in the story as well as several of the show regulars. Pup Morse, the Scuba Cowboy entertains the worried passengers and his daughter Tiff takes out a bad guy (no spoilers!). There is even a reference or two to Mermaid Rum, a ScubaRadio favorite.

Of course, the entire story is set on board the Explorer Ventures Turks and Caicos Explorer, featuring the real crew. (None of the Explorer Ventures boats have ever been boarded by pirates in real life.)

“One fun thing about this story is I plan to use a character or two in the next full-length Mike Scott novel, planned for the summer of 2018. As with all my stories, you can read one without the other, but there will be a connection to a story line in Turks and Chaos to the next adventure,” Douglas said.

P.S. Don’t forget, the ebook of the first story in the Mike Scott series, Cayman Cowboys, is free to download from all major ebook retailers.

Early reviews

“Fans of Clive Cussler will enjoy this brand-new novella in the Mike Scott thriller series from Eric Douglas.” Greg Holt, host of the talk radio show ScubaRadio.

“…a great “Murder on the Orient Express” set up going, where everyone is captive and most everyone is suspect. It gives the story a nice whodunit quality…” Suzanne Garrett

Turks and Chaos for the new year!

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Happy New Year my friends!

As we bring 2017 to a close, all I can say is “whew. I’m glad that’s over.”

Just kidding. This year has come with some challenges, but every year is what you make of it and this was a productive one. I released four books this year.

The year began with Heart Survivor: Recovery After Heart Surgery. This book continues to be popular as, unfortunately, new people are facing this diagnosis every day.

In the summer, The 3rd Key: Sharks in the Water took everyone on a trip to the Florida Keys. This story packed a lot of action and excitement into just a couple days.

In November, the biography Dive-abled: The Leo Morales Story told the inspiring story of a young man who used the power of the ocean to overcome the loss of a leg to cancer, and to set some diving records along the way.

And for Christmas, the latest Mike Scott thriller novella hit the streets: Turks and Chaos: Hostile Waters. This is the ninth installment in the Mike Scott series. Set entirely on a liveaboard dive boat, it’s a great way to warm up the winter months!

Thank you for coming along for the ride and I hope you got a chance to escape from your day-to-day with Mike Scott. Remember, reviews are the life-blood of an author. If you’ve read any of my books, please leave a review and let others know what you thought.

I am looking forward to an exciting 2018.

Happy New Year!

Eric

New Mike Scott thriller novella available for Christmas

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ThTurks and Chaos: Hostile Waters thriller novellae latest thriller novella the Mike Scott series, Turks and Chaos: Hostile Waters, is now available for pre-order across all ebook formats at a special introductory price, author Eric Douglas announced.

The ninth installment in the series, this story is a thriller novella. It will be officially available on Dec. 25, as a Christmas present to readers. Between now and Christmas day, the story is priced at just $0.99. When the story goes live, the ebook novella price will go up to $2.99. A softcover version of the book will also be available on the release date.

“I wanted to challenge myself with this story a bit. No bringing in outside help or equipment. This story is entirely set on board a liveaboard dive boat,” Douglas said. “Most of the Mike Scott stories feature the location as an additional character, but this was different. It was confining, but also liberating at the same time. I had to focus on characters and limit them to what was onboard.”

Turks and Chaos: Hostile Waters

Armed gunmen board a liveaboard dive boat near Turks and Caicos in this sea story/action thriller. News photographer Mike Scott is on a dive vacation and gets taken hostage when the theft doesn’t go as planned. When the identity of the head pirate is exposed, he declares that all the passengers will die when they reach their destination. It’s up to Mike, the passengers and crew to overcome the pirates and save their own lives. It doesn’t help matters that there is a mole on board feeding the pirates information and they are heading right into a storm. Now they must rebel against the pirates and take the boat back before time runs out…

Pre-order your copy of this Mike Scott thriller today and have it ready to read on Christmas morning!

Early Reviews

“Fans of Clive Cussler will enjoy this brand-new novella in the Mike Scott thriller series from Eric Douglas.” Greg Holt, host of the talk radio show ScubaRadio.

“…a great “Murder on the Orient Express” set up going, where everyone is captive and most everyone is suspect. It gives the story a nice whodunit quality…” Suzanne Garrett

New novel covers and Cayman Cowboys is free everywhere!

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When I began writing the Mike Scott books, one of my goals was to introduce more people to the beauty and joy of the underwater world – hopefully inspiring the next generation of adventurers like Jacques Cousteau inspired me. To help make that happen, I’ve made two changes to the Mike Scott thriller series.

First, Cayman Cowboys is now FREE to download from your favorite ebook retailer. It’s in all ebook formats including Kindle, Nook, iBooks, Smashwords, Kobo and others. Share this with your friends who might be interested in a fun read, but also might be interested in learning about the ocean and diving as well.

And, its not just Cayman Cowboys that is available everywhere, but the entire Mike Scott thriller series is also available on all ebook platforms. iBooks? Yep. Nook? You got it. Smashwords, Inkwell or any one of the others? There too. Now, there’s no reason not to read a Mike Scott thriller book. This includes the box sets as well.

You’ll also notice that the entire series of books have new covers. For some, it was just a change in the font. Others got a complete makeover with the addition of a subtitle, new image and new graphics.

For those of us in the northern hemisphere, the diving season is pretty much over and winter is setting in. But that doesn’t mean you can’t read about diving and the oceans!

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