The Dragon's Map

The law stops at the shoreline. The Dragon does not.

When a terrified roughneck walks into the New Orleans offices of Hastings, Tanner & Vance with a Ziploc bag containing a dead man's phone, he brings more than just a salvage case. He brings proof of a massacre.

The official report says the Deep Star 4 rig explosion was a tragic accident caused by a gas kick. But the recovered audio logs tell a darker story: the rig wasn't drilling for oil. It was conducting a "destabilization test" on a massive, volatile methane hydrate field known as The Dragon.

Now, a shadow corporation backed by foreign intelligence is preparing to finish the job. They have deployed a second massive drillship, the Titan, to the same coordinates with orders to drill at any cost. Their goal is to weaponize the geology of the Gulf, triggering a submarine landslide that could send a tsunami crashing into the US coast.

While attorney Sal Tanner fights a losing battle in a federal court that has been silenced by "National Security" orders , strategist Clay Hastings and fixer Darius Hayes must take the fight to the high seas.

Racing against an incoming hurricane and a ruthless mercenary team, Clay must board the Titan and stop the drill before it punctures the Dragon's heart. But in the deep water, the law doesn't apply-and the only thing deadlier than the storm is the secret lying on the ocean floor.

Perfect for fans of Clive Cussler and John Grisham, The Dragon's Map is a high-octane Maritime Legal Techno-Thriller about the thin line between corporate greed and an act of war.