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River of Ghosts
Peter Tonkin
An exciting Richard Mariner marine adventure.
Far into the East China Sea, Richard and Robin Mariner are testing the Neptune, their company's latest acquisition, an unmanned sub. A distress call comes in from a submarine whose mission is to recover the lost gold of Kublai Khan. It has become trapped on the seabed and the crew is running out of air. But as the Mariners guide Neptune to the rescue, a darker story becomes plain. Was the submarine's voyage a cover for a more sinister mission? . . .
UK edition
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Publication Date: 30 Dec 2009
ISBN: 9781847511287
Price: £10.99
Dimensions: 141 x 222
Extent: 224 pages
US edition
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Publication Date: 30 Mar 2010
ISBN: 9781847511287
Price: $15.95
Dimensions: 5.25 x 8.5
Extent: 224 pages
Blind Reef
Richard and Robin Mariner's quest to rescue a kidnapped girl leads them into the perilous heart of the Sinai desert.
Richard and Robin Mariner save the lives of several refugees when their boat flounders on the Blind Reef, but become dangerously involved with one, Nahom, when they learn that his twin sister has been kidnapped and is being held for ransom. Their quest to find her leads them into the heart of the Sinai desert - and extreme danger.
Mariner's Ark
A devastating ARkStorm in the Pacific leads Richard Mariner into an epic battle against the waves.
When an ARkStorm strikes, Richard is forced to turn his container ship Sulu Queen into a real Noah's ark, guiding her into the deadliest storm to come off the Pacific in 150 years as he fights to save those closest to him, as well as countless other lives.
Deadly Impact
Richard Mariner is drawn into a danger-filled, action-packed race against time when his ship is hijacked by pirates.
When a group of pirates breaks into Sayonara, the world's largest Liquid Natural Gas tanker, en route to Japan, Richard Mariner has ninety-nine hours to assemble a team and retake his ship in an increasingly desperate, danger-filled race against time.
Black Pearl
An incalculable fortune in conflict minerals lies on the bed of a lost lake.
The lake lies in the middle of a jungle hardly changed since the age of the dinosaurs, while the jungle stands on the slope of an active volcano which has destroyed the only civilisation nearby. The volcano serves as a border between two warring central African nations. And an uncontrolled, murderous guerrilla army claims the territory for its own, using a combination of modern terrorist techniques and timeless black magic to keep strangers out. Richard Mariner is leading a team into the heart of it all, seeking the lake and the fortune it contains - his only clues a half-forgotten legend and a huge black pearl that is so much more than it seems...
Dead Sea
An ambitious ecological experiment plunges Richard and Robin Mariner in deadly waters . . .
Heritage Mariner and Greenbaum International have financed an ecological experiment to prove how swiftly rubbish can foul the oceans by dropping and tracking a plastic bottle into a Tokyo river. Filled with lottery tickets for extra publicity - one of which could be worth $55 million - Robin Mariner and Nic Greenbaum's only child, Libby, will race each other across the Pacific to see who can reach the bottle first, but when it is discovered that it contains the winning ticket the experiment suddenly becomes part of a much deadlier game . . .
Dark Heart
Richard and Robin Mariner are thrust into danger as they enter the dark heart of West Africa...
Having helped the President of a powerful West African nation take control of the country, Richard and Robin Mariner are now among a select group of guests at the Presidential Palace. But trouble arises when the dense jungle compound belonging to the President's daughter and her friend is overrun by a terrorist militia led by a charismatic madman, and Richard and Robin are inexorably sucked into the dark heart of the Delta, where the President's grip is weakest, where lawlessness is fiercest, and where they soon come face to face with an uncontrollable evil . . .
Ice Station
The Richard Mariner series.
Late summer in the Siberian Sea. Richard Mariner stands in the main control centre of Ice Station Zemlya, Russia's massive new floating nuclear facility. But there are dangerous undercurrents. The international team setting up Zemlya are riven with disagreement, and there has been a relentless series of apparent accidents. But as a huge ice storm whirls towards the platform, threatening to cast it adrift in US waters, Richard realizes that someone is plotting to bring about a nuclear catastrophe . . .
Red River
A Mariner thriller.
Richard Mariner has just ridden out an earthquake powerful enough to destroy the Three Gorges Dam. He knows he should be ordering his ship, the Poseidon, back down the Yangtze at flank speed. But several things are making him hesitate: Architect Chang, the mother of the Poseidon's captain, is missing and may need urgent help; his wife, Robin, puts humanitarianism far above self-preservation; and he has no intention of leaving his new launch, Marilyn, lost overboard during the earthquake, drifting in the river's shipping lanes . . .
The Prison Ship
A Mariner thriller from Peter Tonkin.
Richard Mariner and his daughter are visiting the Maritime Museum at Chatham when they are caught up in an attempted terrorist attack. Three young marine engineers are arrested for the failed attack and confined to the newly commissioned prison ship, Fleet. But as Richard learns more about the case, a disquieting question develops in his mind: how on earth did these skilled men fail in their mission to blow up the Chatham Dockyards, and why?
Volcano Roads
An exciting new Richard Mariner marine adventure.
Richard and Robin Mariner are aboard Tai Fun, preparing to join their friends at the opening ceremony of the luxury Volcano Roads hotel on the Indonesian island of Pulau Baya, when they spot two bodies floating in the sea. Richard and Robin soon discover that all is not as it should be on this rejuvenated island. There are fortunes to be made and everyone, from the clearly legitimate, to the ruthlessly criminal, wants a slice of the action . . .
High Wind in Java
A Richard Mariner adventure.
Richard Mariner is out to buy the revolutionary vessel Tai Fun, but not if multi-millionaire eco-warrior Nic Greenbaum has his way. The situation is further complicated when the tiny island of Pulau Baya, Tai Fun's final port of call, is torn by a series of unexplained, overwhelming disasters. Helpless and desperate, the islanders go out to pirate and pillage. And the first vessel to appear over their horizon is the Tai Fun . . .
The Ship Breakers
A Mariner adventure.
Richard and Robin Mariner are supplying retired tankers to a Russian consortium. When Robin attracts the attentions of a shadowy group of men, she seeks refuge on board Prometheus4 and makes a desperate phone call to Richard. But Richard is incommunicado in Archangel police station, standing over a corpse found aboard Prometheus4 that very morning. And the Russian investigators suspect there are plenty more where that one came from . . .
Cape Farewell
A Richard Mariner adventure.
When Richard Mariner's tug Sisyphus is hit by a huge rogue wave off the Greenland coast, only superb seamanship and good luck save her. The vessels ahead of Sissy are not so fortunate and an ever-more desperate race begins as Sissy must pull the stricken submarine Quebec up towards the surface, and somehow keep her there as they battle towards their rendezvous with a rescue fleet at the southern point of Greenland the ominously named Cape Farewell . . .
Resolution Burning
The gripping new Richard Mariner adventure.
Richard Mariner battles across Antarctic storms to rescue the tanker Queen Mary, drifting aflame towards disaster, yet when he boards, he finds only opposition and mystery. Did the senior officers die by accident or by design? Just how did the fires start? Is he dealing with businessmen, or terrorists? Richard must work fast for in one hundred hours, Queen Mary will reach a volcanic outcrop, triggering the greatest eruption since Krakatoa . . .
Wolf Rock
A Mayday signal leads to a charge of murder.
In a terrible storm in the English Channel, Richard Mariner receives a Mayday signal. Plunging across the shipping lanes in his SuperCat, he saves most of the distressed crew from the deadly shoals of Wolf Rock, though the captain has already abandoned ship and is subsequently declared missing, presumed dead. But at the inquiry, Mariner, coincidentally a member of the wrecked ship's board, is astonished to find himself charged with Corporate Killing . . .
Titan 10
The thirteenth action adventure in the Mariner series.
July 2008. Prometheus 4, the first of a new generation of supertankers, plunges round the North Cape, heading for its rendezvous in the Barents Sea with Titan 10, from which it will collect its cargo. Formerly a nuclear submarine, Titan 10's missiles have been replaced by tanks carrying 10,000 tons of oil. But when the two vessels meet, Prometheus 4 finds Titan 10 utterly deserted. And the oil is gone . . .