Beyond the Reach of Oars

Tom Halgrave's salvage career died with a diver he never killed, and now he surveys cable routes off Bangka for a client who pays late. A snagged robot arm changes that: beneath two metres of dredge tailings lies a thousand-year-old hull, and inside it a torn sheet of gold bearing a drowned king's last order. Half the map is missing. So is any margin for error — because the man who ruined Tom wants the same fortune, and he pays in blood.