Reading Response to Black Gold

'Black Gold' by Chris Ryan isn't the best book I have read but it does have a good story line also there isn't any boring introduction its straight into action. The book is based around a oil company called ArBonCo trying to set up a oil rig near a island called Curacao about 40km off the coast of south America in an attempt to distract the people of  Curacao they decide to crash a oil tanker with thousands of tons of oil into the cliffs.

This is where the five friends come and save the day since the islands only real income comes from the dive schools that are scattered along the coast it is vital that they stop them because no one would bother coming to dive if the water was polluted and all the fish and other species were dying. They decide to use their diving skills that they have been learning to investigate the wreck but they don't find anything interesting apart from the ship had been set on full ahead at the cliffs.This made them suspicious that it wasn't just a accident.

later on in the story they talk to a guy who said he had been shot in the arm by another diver who looked like he was running away from the ship. the next day the there was a small explosion in the ship which made it even more odd because the oil still left in the tank should of blown the tanker sky high. They decide the something very fishy was going on when a dead shark was washed up on the beach which appeared to have been blown apart from the inside with shrapnel impaled all the way around it's guts. After many daring missions they eventually solve the puzzle and stop the drilling.

I think that the main idea that Chris Ryan its trying to convey is that people can be to greedy and not think about the consequences that might happen like the dive teachers losing there jobs or fish and other marine animals dying . They just want to satisfy there want to be rich at the expense of others. If i was going to rate this book i would probably give it a 3 - 3.5.