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 one: 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 . . .
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It's the stuff of nightmares: being trapped on a disabled ship in the Antarctic Sea with many of the crew dead or injured, a hurricane on the way, and the certainty that a dangerous saboteur is aboard the ship. But the unflappable Richard Mariner isn't fazed. Flown in to help rescue the ship after it sends an SOS, Mariner finds that one of his distant relations, Julie DuFour, has taken command after the death of the captain. The saboteurs have set a series of fires, leaving much of the vessel filled with dangerous inert gases. It's up to Richard to help Julie maintain calm, expose the saboteur, and avert the disaster that could result if the ship goes down, spewing its dangerous cargo into the sea and creating a global environmental disaster. Suspenseful, fast moving, and adrenaline filled, Tonkin's latest Richard Mariner novel will give Sunday sailors and adventure lovers a shot of pure reading pleasure. Emily Melton
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Tonkin is Head of English at the Wildernesse School, Sevenoaks.
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