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Jacob P. Avila Jacob P. Avila i(19438632 works by)
Also writes as: Simon Vespasian
Gender: Male
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'Jake Avila is a full-time writer with a BA in Writing and Information Technology. He has a background in freelance journalism writing on politics, culture, technology, and sport, and taught secondary English for ten years. In 2019, he won the Adventure Writer's Competition Clive Cussler Grandmaster Award for Cave Diver and then went on to win the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize for the same book in 2020.'

Source : https://www.echopublishing.com.au/titles/cave-diver/

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y separately published work icon Cave Diver Australia : Jacob P. Avila , 2018 19438696 2018 single work novel adventure

'The quest for a WW2 Japanese submarine in a bottomless Papuan cavern could be the opportunity Rob Nash needs to rebuild his once glittering career in cave diving exploration. Since losing his wife in a controversial diving accident he’s been dumped by sponsors, shunned by friends, and has developed a secret terror of confined spaces. Nash soon learns the price of redemption will consume every molecule of his self-belief. Not only must he battle his demons in the darkness below but vanquish fanatical terrorists hell-bent on unleashing a monstrous weapon lost in the depths for over seventy years.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
2020 winner Wilbur Smith Adventure Prize — Best Unpublished Manuscript
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