Peter Tonkin Boeken

Captain Richard Mariner and the crew of the Prometheus 4 investigate the mystery surrounding tanker Titan 10, which is missing both its crew and cargo of oil from the Kara Sea.

The gripping new Richard Mariner adventure Richard Mariner battles across a stormy Antarctic Ocean to find the great French super tanker, Lady Mary, drifting aflame towards the volcanic outcrop of Kerguelen Island. His task is a desperate alone, he has just one hundred hours to rescue the vessel before she sets off a catastrophic explosion. But when Richard arrives aboard, he finds only mystery and opposition. Did the senior officers die in unexplained accidents ? or were they murdered? Were the fires aboard simple bad luck or complex fraud? Is he facing the plans of desperate businessmen ? or the machinations of deadly terrorists? Trapped aboard, Richard must work fast. Within one day he must restore power. Within two he must restore communications. Within three he must prepare the tanker to face a hurricane. And within four he must get Lady Mary towed into Resolution Passage and out of trouble ? or she will set off the greatest volcanic eruption since Krakatoa . . .

It was Christmas Eve of 1594 when Tom Musgrove was called away from his dress rehearsal of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, to receive the terrible news of his brother's death. His body was found frozen to death in the branches of a tree, with a look of sheer horror on his face. Tom rides to investigate. He will need all his skills as a swordsman and all his intelligence to handle this situation.

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 still Java Sea.The victims are marine police, and while one of them is beyond help, the other is clinging to life. As they rush the dying woman to shore, it seems that the eyes of the entire world are on the island, the hotel and the dazzling ceremony.But, even allowing for the mysterious patient, Richard and Robin soon discover that all is not as it should be. There are fortunes to be made on this rejuvenated island and everyone—from the clearly legitimate to the ruthlessly criminal—wants a slice of the action…

Caught in a perilous situation, the characters confront their deepest fears in a gripping narrative that explores survival against overwhelming odds. The story delves into themes of courage and resilience as they navigate the terrifying circumstances that threaten their very existence. Each moment is filled with tension and uncertainty, pushing them to their limits as they seek a way out of the ultimate trap.

Set against the backdrop of Ice Station Zemlya, a floating nuclear facility in the Siberian Sea, tensions rise as a fierce ice storm threatens to send the station adrift into U.S. waters. Amidst a divided international team, Richard Mariner uncovers a sinister plot aimed at causing a nuclear disaster, heightening the stakes as he races against time to prevent catastrophe.

A new adventure for Tom, the Elizabethan sleuthTom runs to help a messenger who has been stabbed through the heart and retrieves a bloodied message an urgent cry for help from Lady Margaret Outram, struck dumb by terror in childhood. She is being stalked and now, down in her Cornish castle, her household is preparing an anarchic traditional feast. Anything might happen especially to a woman who cannot even scream for help.

A new 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 . . .

Testing his company's new unmanned submarine in the East China Sea, Richard Mariner receives a distress call from another vessel that is trying to recover the lost gold of Kublai Khan and has become trapped on a seabed and is running out of air.

Richard Mariner leads a team into the heart of an African jungle to find an incalculable fortune in minerals in a territory claimed by a guerrilla army.