“A master of seagoing adventure. Enough taut suspense to satisfy any reader.” Clive Cussler.

The Iceberg

1986, Chernobyl.

General Valerii Gogol has been forced into a desperate gamble to avoid total nuclear meltdown — a gamble with appalling consequences.

Within weeks his terrible secret is shipped north to be discarded in the forbidding wastes of the Arctic Ocean. Frozen, far away from civilization, it is forgotten — for a time.

Years later, Richard Mariner of the Heritage Mariner Shipping Company is commissioned by the United Nations to tow a huge iceberg from the Arctic Circle to a drought-stricken state on the west coast of Africa.

As that same country simmer on the brink of civil war, Mariner struggles to deliver the life-saving colossus — unaware of the contamination at its heart.

Others, however, are not so ignorant.

As the iceberg nears the African coast, friends become enemies and formerly unified crews turn into deadly adversaries.

Within the confines of the ship, tensions rise and the race against time begins as General Gogol himself, now sick and dying, is ordered to halt its progress at all costs.

No matter who gets hurt — or killed.

The Prison Ship
Summer 2011 – Summer 2012

As the build-up to the London Olympics intensifies, Richard Mariner and his daughter Mary are caught up in a terrorist attack on the Royal Dockyards at Chatham on the Thames Estuary.

They are lucky to survive and observe the capture of Sayed Mohammed, one of the terrorists.

The authorities react by putting all the most dangerous extremists under lock and key in one secure location: in a prison ship, Discovery, anchored on the Thames.

But then as the Olympics opening ceremony nears, Richard discovers that there is a dangerous plot in motion.

The authorities are sceptical – their security concerns lie elsewhere

The Mariners are the only people who can stop the attack.

But will they win the race against time to do so?

Deadly Impact

Meet Sayonara, Heritage Mariner’s newest asset and the world’s largest liquid natural gas tanker, controlled entirely by computers.

The ship is bound for Japan, where her cargo will power the construction of the new floating city – Kujukuri.

So, when a group of pirates break into the ship, Richard Mariner must step in and take back the vessel.

Mariner has just a few days to assemble a crew, curb the pirates onboard and regain control of the computers – before the tanker collides with a nuclear power station.

With his wife Robin attempting to unravel the events from afar, the pair race against time to outwit and outfight the pirates.

Peter Tonkin was born in 1950 in Ulster, Northern Ireland and was raised in the UK, Holland, Germany, and the Persian Gulf. The son of an RAF officer, Tonkin spent much of his youth travelling the world from one posting to another. He is the author of the Trojan Murders series, Caesar’s Spies and the Tom Musgrave Mysteries.

Praise for Peter Tonkin:

”Edge-of-the-seat terror.” Daily Post.

“A welcome aura of old-fashioned expertise.” Publishers Weekly.

“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.

”Equals the best of James Clavell.” Daily Telegraph.

”Good technical detail, plus an exciting climax, makes this entertaining reading.” Publishing News.