Deep Driller

About the Book

The Scots have been fighting the English for centuries. To some extent they have succeeded; but Westminster still holds the reins of Power and Purse.
For some time the Scottish National Party has existed, occasionally violently.  Such occurred during the 1970s when petroleum was discovered in the North Sea, much offshore Scotland.  The Scots have no direct ownership, though many staging areas exist in Scotland.
Sabotage and destruction of infrastructure such as pipelines occurred.
Deep Driller is a story of those exciting and sometimes dangerous times of discovery on and under that lonely, turbulent and at times malevolent sea.

About the Author

Henry F. Merritt has spent over 40 years in petroleum exploration in the U.S., Canada, Southeast Asia, South America, Africa and the North Sea where he worked on a semi-submersible drilling rig off Scotland. He is a graduate of Princeton University (AB) and New York University (MBA). He founded and managed a petroleum exploration company. After selling this, he became a petroleum exploration consultant. He survived the 1975 terrorist bombing of Fraunces’ Tavern in New York. Born in New York City, he lives in rural Connecticut with his wife and college age son. Deep Driller is his first novel.