A Richard Mariner omnibus.
'A master of sea-going adventure. Enough taut suspense to satisfy any reader' - Clive Cussler
The Leper Ship
While removing toxic waste from a dead zone in the Palestinian desert, the captain of the Napoli is killed by local villagers whose land and families have been destroyed. Fully laden, the Napoli limps off to Cyprus, but desperately needs a new master - and Heritage Mariner of London are requested to provide one.
Recalled from his honeymoon, John Higgins is the only captain available.
But this ship has trouble written all over her. She's an ageing rust-bucket with a multi-racial crew, and the containers on board are filled with chemical and nuclear poison.
Still, Higgins' orders are simple enough: take her home to Naples.
But, when they arrive, they find this is only the first of many ports to refuse the leper ship entry.
With an increasingly mutinous crew, and acidic waste eating away at her insides, there seems nowhere left to turn...
The Bomb Ship
Richard Mariner of the Heritage Mariner shipping company has commissioned two identical ships designed to transport nuclear waste safely across the Atlantic.
Within months of surviving a terrorist attack at their launch, the sister ships are in service, but suspiciously bad luck and foul weather trap the Atropos behind a huge ice barrier.
Crippled and helpless, she is in imminent danger of being crushed.
Clotho, the only ship close enough to help, plunges into the stormy Labrador Sea, her crew totally unaware that the bomb has done more damage than anyone suspects.
And that was but the opening move in a campaign of violence by a death-defying group of environmental terrorists who are already aboard, disguised as members of the crew and secretly stowed away.
One lethal device has already been planted and more have been smuggled deep into the bowels of the great ship ...
Tiger Island
Tiger Island, lying at the heart of a ships' graveyard, is completely isolated.
But when tsunami waves cover up the deadly reefs around it, only a handful of brave ships reach the island. Sindbad and Drake have been, and now it's Richard Mariner's turn.
Accompanied by a beautiful young nurse, two ships' worth of smugglers and their lethal contraband, he must fight until to the bitter end if they have any hope of survival.
But it is Robin, his wife and business partner, who must fight to save him, hardly believing he's still alive.
Her hope hinges on a rumour she might never believe and one man. A man whose charms she is beginning to find irresistible...
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 Richard Mariner Series.
Genre: Thriller
'A master of sea-going adventure. Enough taut suspense to satisfy any reader' - Clive Cussler
The Leper Ship
While removing toxic waste from a dead zone in the Palestinian desert, the captain of the Napoli is killed by local villagers whose land and families have been destroyed. Fully laden, the Napoli limps off to Cyprus, but desperately needs a new master - and Heritage Mariner of London are requested to provide one.
Recalled from his honeymoon, John Higgins is the only captain available.
But this ship has trouble written all over her. She's an ageing rust-bucket with a multi-racial crew, and the containers on board are filled with chemical and nuclear poison.
Still, Higgins' orders are simple enough: take her home to Naples.
But, when they arrive, they find this is only the first of many ports to refuse the leper ship entry.
With an increasingly mutinous crew, and acidic waste eating away at her insides, there seems nowhere left to turn...
The Bomb Ship
Richard Mariner of the Heritage Mariner shipping company has commissioned two identical ships designed to transport nuclear waste safely across the Atlantic.
Within months of surviving a terrorist attack at their launch, the sister ships are in service, but suspiciously bad luck and foul weather trap the Atropos behind a huge ice barrier.
Crippled and helpless, she is in imminent danger of being crushed.
Clotho, the only ship close enough to help, plunges into the stormy Labrador Sea, her crew totally unaware that the bomb has done more damage than anyone suspects.
And that was but the opening move in a campaign of violence by a death-defying group of environmental terrorists who are already aboard, disguised as members of the crew and secretly stowed away.
One lethal device has already been planted and more have been smuggled deep into the bowels of the great ship ...
Tiger Island
Tiger Island, lying at the heart of a ships' graveyard, is completely isolated.
But when tsunami waves cover up the deadly reefs around it, only a handful of brave ships reach the island. Sindbad and Drake have been, and now it's Richard Mariner's turn.
Accompanied by a beautiful young nurse, two ships' worth of smugglers and their lethal contraband, he must fight until to the bitter end if they have any hope of survival.
But it is Robin, his wife and business partner, who must fight to save him, hardly believing he's still alive.
Her hope hinges on a rumour she might never believe and one man. A man whose charms she is beginning to find irresistible...
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 Richard Mariner Series.
Genre: Thriller
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