Three of Peter Tonkin's bestselling Richard Mariner thrillers Powerdown, The Coffin Ship and The Pirate Ship are collected together in a single volume.
'A master of sea-going adventure. Enough taut suspense to satisfy any reader' - Clive Cussler
POWERDOWN
A NASA astronaut is dying on the Antarctic ice-shelf. Testing an experimental space-suit in the extreme conditions, he is lost in the white-out, facing a total communications and life-support powerdown.
Richard Mariner - aboard HMS Erebus, delivering New Year supplies to the BAS bases nearby - becomes involved in NASA's desperate rescue attempt. But then, as an FBI investigation into the astronaut's death traps them all at the NASA base, other deaths occur and suspicious events start to become explosive...
THE COFFIN SHIP
The giant supertanker Prometheus sits at anchor in the Persian Gulf, holding 250,000 tons of crude oil.
Somewhere on board is a crew member who is determined that the ship not make it to its destination in Europe.
As the ship travels through the Indian Ocean, around South Africa, through the Atlantic and into the English Channel, only Captain Richard Mariner can battle subterfuge, sabotage and the elements to see the ship safely to port.
THE PIRATE SHIP
1997. A stormy dawn in the South China Sea.
Cargo vessel, Sulu Queen, drifts aimlessly.
She is only days out of Singapore, but a boarding party finds her full of corpses - shot, stabbed, bludgeoned to death - with only one wild-eyed survivor...
Injured in the confusion, and now suffering from total amnesia, he is identified as Captain Richard Mariner of the Heritage Mariner shipping company which owns the vessel.
He is immediately charged with the mass murder of thirty-nine fellow crew members.
It falls to Mariner's wife and business partner, Robin, to untangle this nightmarish web of brutality.
In order to decipher the fateful voyage of the Sulu Queen before Hong Kong reverts to Chinese rule, Robin is forced to join the sister ship, Seram Queen.
Little does she know that the horrific tragedy is likely to be repeated, and that she's now in a chilling race against time to save her husband's life - and her own.
'The Pirate Ship' is a fast paced naval thriller from the Richard Mariner series, which will keep you guessing until the very end.
'Tonkin's Asia of gin slings and shifty orientals equals the best of James Clavell' Daily Telegraph
'A master of sea-going adventure. Enough taut suspense to satisfy any reader' Clive Cussler.
Peter Tonkin was born in Northern Ireland, and was raised in the UK, Holland, Germany, and the Persian Gulf. He has written forty novels including the Tom Musgrave Elizabethan series.
Praise for Peter Tonkin
"A good thriller, recommended" - Library Journal
'Tonkin is a superb storyteller who creates big, brash, swashbuckling adventures with taut suspense, fast-paced action and tough, resourceful characters.' Booklist
"A welcome aura of old-fashioned expertise" - Publishers Weekly
Genre: Thriller
'A master of sea-going adventure. Enough taut suspense to satisfy any reader' - Clive Cussler
POWERDOWN
A NASA astronaut is dying on the Antarctic ice-shelf. Testing an experimental space-suit in the extreme conditions, he is lost in the white-out, facing a total communications and life-support powerdown.
Richard Mariner - aboard HMS Erebus, delivering New Year supplies to the BAS bases nearby - becomes involved in NASA's desperate rescue attempt. But then, as an FBI investigation into the astronaut's death traps them all at the NASA base, other deaths occur and suspicious events start to become explosive...
THE COFFIN SHIP
The giant supertanker Prometheus sits at anchor in the Persian Gulf, holding 250,000 tons of crude oil.
Somewhere on board is a crew member who is determined that the ship not make it to its destination in Europe.
As the ship travels through the Indian Ocean, around South Africa, through the Atlantic and into the English Channel, only Captain Richard Mariner can battle subterfuge, sabotage and the elements to see the ship safely to port.
THE PIRATE SHIP
1997. A stormy dawn in the South China Sea.
Cargo vessel, Sulu Queen, drifts aimlessly.
She is only days out of Singapore, but a boarding party finds her full of corpses - shot, stabbed, bludgeoned to death - with only one wild-eyed survivor...
Injured in the confusion, and now suffering from total amnesia, he is identified as Captain Richard Mariner of the Heritage Mariner shipping company which owns the vessel.
He is immediately charged with the mass murder of thirty-nine fellow crew members.
It falls to Mariner's wife and business partner, Robin, to untangle this nightmarish web of brutality.
In order to decipher the fateful voyage of the Sulu Queen before Hong Kong reverts to Chinese rule, Robin is forced to join the sister ship, Seram Queen.
Little does she know that the horrific tragedy is likely to be repeated, and that she's now in a chilling race against time to save her husband's life - and her own.
'The Pirate Ship' is a fast paced naval thriller from the Richard Mariner series, which will keep you guessing until the very end.
'Tonkin's Asia of gin slings and shifty orientals equals the best of James Clavell' Daily Telegraph
'A master of sea-going adventure. Enough taut suspense to satisfy any reader' Clive Cussler.
Peter Tonkin was born in Northern Ireland, and was raised in the UK, Holland, Germany, and the Persian Gulf. He has written forty novels including the Tom Musgrave Elizabethan series.
Praise for Peter Tonkin
"A good thriller, recommended" - Library Journal
'Tonkin is a superb storyteller who creates big, brash, swashbuckling adventures with taut suspense, fast-paced action and tough, resourceful characters.' Booklist
"A welcome aura of old-fashioned expertise" - Publishers Weekly
Genre: Thriller
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