Total Depth

<p>In the global drilling boom of the nineteen seventies Simon Wimborne works on offshore oil rigs as a mudlogger an uninspiring title for a job that combines tedium with sheer terror.</p><p>Meanwhile Stan a Polish father haunted by wartime memories searches for Simon who he believes to be his long-lost son given up for adoption at birth. The story draws the parallels between the lives of father and son of young men of different generations thrust into danger.</p><p>From offshore Indonesia to the North Sea to Alberta Canada the search ends off Canada's stormy east coast.</p>