The Skeleton Crew (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780645489682)

Andrew Swales with his debut novel brings a challenging mystery set in a near-future world of petrostates and resource wars.

Twelve days since the communications blackout. A skeleton crew waits on an oil and gas platform off the coast of southern Australia. The drilling team and the supply helicopters have not arrived. All comms channels are down. Supplies are running low. One crew member is dead and another is missing.

When the body of the missing crewman is discovered snagged on one of the platform legs, tensions are forced to the surface. Are they on the platform alone? Or is there a murderer among them?

Join a race against time, the elements, and themselves as the skeleton crew take their fate into their own hands to discover why the world has fallen silent.