This is not for faint of heart or anyone with claustrophobia. The writing alone will impress the closeness and size of the small space that six divers face when locked in a hyperbaric chamber together for almost a month. Ellen Brooke has experience in living in a chamber and working on the sea bed – the description of that is both beautiful and a bit scary – and is pleased to be alongside people she trusts and admires. Until the first body is found. There’s still days to go before decompression is finished. Suddenly you’re not stuck in a small space with people who you like, but potentially someone who is deliberately targeting divers. Pressure – quite literal – is all around and it's not going to get any easier. This will make you want to take deep breaths while you read, to ensure you’re not with Ellen and her team well below the water’s surface. It’s a chilling but brilliant read.

The Chamber - Will Dean

Will Dean is so good at suspense and atmosphere and he really doesn’t disappoint with ‘The Chamber’. The title tells you all you need to know before you get started on this claustrophobic, anxiety-ridden, atmospheric and intelligent thriller.
Six ‘sat’ [Saturation] divers are on a boat heading out into the North Sea. Their job is to repair oil pipes 100 metres below sea sea. They can be working for days or weeks at this level and the only way back to the surface is by decompression, a very slow, careful operation: too fast means death. Physical and emotional health, and the ability to work as a team, is crucial. But in this locked hyperbaric chamber thriller something goes seriously wrong and one of the divers is found unconscious. The divers are tested to their limits and beyond.
Dean has clearly done his research on how these jobs are conducted, what the equipment and vehicles looks like, and especially, what exactly is a ‘sat’ diver and what does it take to be successful.
I haven’t felt such intense emotions from a book since reading Dean’s ‘The Last Thing to Burn’. Just read ‘The Chamber’ for yourself.
Thanks to Netgalley and Hodder & Stoughton for the ARC

Who hurt Will Dean? This is revenge in a novel! Wowsers. What a cracking thriller! Premise, writing, atmosphere and everything in between. I felt sick at certain moments with the divers. Trapped under water. What a thriller. I thought the one set on a cruise ship was good!

Probably best not to read at night if you are claustrophobic or of a nervous disposition. Nerve shredding, intense and MASSIVELY addictive.

Nowhere to run and nowhere to hide, literally no escape except death, a group of characters stuck in a nightmare scenario

Loved every minute of it. Probably my favourite Will Dean novel to date. Huge recommend.