The Green Tan is a novel about a tough breed of men who worked in an
environment where instant death was always close. They did deep
water saturation diving for oil companies in the oil boom of the late
Twentieth Century. They were paid high wages for very dangerous diving,
and more than a few lost their lives. Many came from the old Navy UDT teams and then the SEAL teams that followed. Those men had been to hell
already and often adapted best to the rigors of saturation diving. The
main character is one of these men. But all the divers lived hard and some
died suddenly, victims of a mega-money industry that could play with the
divers' lives. Because of the harsh conditions of their work, many
divers partied hard, and this story depicts graphic sex and the use of
drugs that were often involved in relieving the intense stress. It is an
explicit and violent book, but it is also comic, even tender at times
when the story of the other side of the men's personalities are
revealed. Like other dangerous professions that take men from their
loved ones for extended periods of time, the divers' personal stories
are often crashed love stories. The main character, however, does find a
redemption of a sorts in a personal transformation where love and
justice for him take on new meanings, though not the kind of justice you
would find with lawyers and judges in court. The Green Tan is a story
about two commercial diving partners in a series of jobs whose events
escalate to the brink of where even the best of divers will meet his
fate. It is a story of survival, love, betrayal, death, retribution and
emergence.
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