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J.A. (John) Turley, raised in San Diego, California, successfully combined his love of and respect for the ocean with his academics and career as a Petroleum Engineer, with graduate work in Ocean Engineering. The majority of his working years focused on the world of offshore drilling and production. Assignments in Houston, Texas; Lafayette, Louisiana; Miami, Florida, and the U.K., among others, always had something to do with offshore drilling. When Turley retired, he started a new career as a writer. This Website offers a brief view of three books by Turley. Each is related to the ocean in its own way.
BODY SHOTS, a novel, takes place in Belize, a small Central America country, where we find an American expat on a quiet summer’s morning.
 
Kennedy Bracken, scuba diving the Belize Barrier Reef, witnesses and photographs sharks in a feeding frenzy—their target a young woman’s body. Minutes later, alone at sea, Bracken is left with little more than bad memories, morbid photos, and questions about the woman who will never again be seen.
 
As a retired accident investigator obsessed with death resolution, Bracken is compelled to learn who she was and how she died. It’s good news that Belize police use the best of Bracken’s partial-face photos to identify the accidental-death victim, but details in other photos force Bracken to discount the who, where, and how of the official story.
 
Bracken recruits Sarah McGarrity, his vacationing, Denver-based, almost fiancée, and the self-appointed detectives dig deep, follow evidence, and look for answers . . . only to exhume a truth more brutal than the sharks.
 
BODY SHOTS is available paperback and eBook   (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DGVK15MR/)
  J.A. Turley wrote and published THE WHOLE TRUTH, a RICO mystery. The book follows protagonist Tony, a petroleum-engineering company-man, as he manages the drilling of a deep offshore exploration well. Tony wants the economically risky venture to yield a discovery but it could be a dry hole. Or, worse—a lethal nightmare—because the truth, the whole truth, about the well is targeted by those who will kill to prove that neither life nor truth is bulletproof.
 
In 2019, the book was named Winner—Mystery/Crime Novel—by the Colorado Authors’ League.
 
The book is Available in paperback and eBook.
 (www.amazon.com/dp/0985877227/).
DEEPWATER HORIZON 2020—
Remembering BP’s 2010 Disastrous Blowout—
10 years later  

John Turley, a Colorado School of Mines graduate and career energy professional, researched the engineering cause of the 2010 Macondo blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. He published his research and findings in THE SIMPLE TRUTH (2012), presented as narrative non-fiction for both laymen and technical readers. By invitation, he presented his findings to the Society of Petroleum Engineers and was named a 2015-16 Distinguished Lecturer for presentations around the world.  

Turley’s complete findings (including THE SIMPLE TRUTH and his SPE presentation) are published in his book DEEPWATER HORIZON 2020 (pub 2020). The compiled book is a comprehensive 10-year lookback about the cause of one of the lethal, costly, manmade environmental disasters in history.
The compiled work is available in paperback and eBook.
 (www.amazon.com/dp/B086VRCVC5).