upon a painted ocean: a literary thriller with a killer twist

How far would you go to fulfil your dream?

When Patrick Garrett, a social worker and aspiring writer, receives a strange triangular letter, he’s faced with a difficult choice. The letter tells him to get on a plane to the Bahamas, and promises to fulfil his lifelong they’ll make his novel a bestseller.

But can he really abandon thirteen year old Luke, the most vulnerable child on his caseload?

Turns out, yes, he can.

After his plane ditches into the sea, Patrick thinks that he may have made the wrong call. It doesn’t take long for him to realise that his troubles are only just beginning.

Can Patrick survive, work out who sold him down the river, and get back to the child he left behind?

Blending interlocking character stories (think Liane Moriarty’s ‘Nine Perfect Strangers’) with a tense survival story (think Andy Weir’s ‘The Martian’), alongside thrilling set pieces (think Lee Child) and a leftfield, cynical humour (think Chuck Palahniuk), upon a painted ocean is a literary thriller that asks the how far would you go to fulfil your dream?