The Chamber

A Novel

By: Will Dean

Narrated by: Helen Keeley

And Then There Were None meets The Last Breath in this tense and suspenseful locked-room thriller that takes place inside a hyperbaric chamber from the author of the “brilliant, twisted, and oh so clever” (Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author) novel The Last Thing to Burn.

Six experienced saturation divers are locked inside a hyperbaric chamber. Calm and professional, they know that rapid decompression would be fatal and so they work in shifts, breathing helium, and surviving in hot, close quarters.

Then one of them is found dead in his bunk.

With four days of decompression to go before the locked hatch to the chamber can be safely opened, the group must watch one another’s backs at all times. And when another diver is discovered unresponsive, everyone is on edge. What…or who…is taking them out one by one? And will any of them still be alive by the time the four days is up or will paranoia, exhaustion, suspicion, and pressure destroy them all?

Not a bad story but has some technical issues

As a Navy sat diver from 70’s there were two things I took issue with. One is because the chamber hatch opens inward at depth the hatch can not be opened. Two is in the helox world the percentage of O2 is probably around 6% which does not support fire burning.

Great Narration!!!

I had this in my Wish List for a very long time. The details sounded so interesting and honestly, I find maybe 1 out of 20 audible books actually any good. I just knew this was going to be that 1 in 20.
It was not.
It dragged on and on and on and on…..listening to the names/nicknames of everything and every term the characters used while in The Chamber came to be annoying…..just tell the story already—I felt like there was going to be a quiz on all terms the divers used after I finished the book.
The back stories of all characters weren’t that interesting——and I had Brooks’ family life figured out pronto.
I refused to give up because I hoped it was going to throw out a HUGE twist and blow my mind. I knew a quarter way through who the “enemy” was and I’m not always keen to figuring out the endings of books.
Standing ovation to the narrator-to date the best narrator I have heard. Her easy way of switching accents and pitches in voice, not to mention her amazing “acting” almost had me enjoying the book.
Almost.

Different twist to a suspense story

Enjoyed learning about saturation diving. Great story line. Accents were sometimes difficult to understand ( listened via audible).

Never saw it coming

This storybos a deep dive into a world i knew nothing about, which is now added toy list of things not to do and even more people to feat

Great story

I really enjoyed this book and listened to the whole thing in one day. It moved quickly and kept me interested!