The Ship Breakers
By Peter Tonkin
2007
First Published
3.60
Average Rating
235
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Part of Series
The new Mariner adventureRichard 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...
Avg Rating
3.60
Number of Ratings
30
5 STARS
20%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
33%
2 STARS
3%
1 STARS
7%
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Author
Peter Tonkin
Author · 37 books
Peter Tonkin's first novel, KILLER, was published in 1978. His work has included the acclaimed "Mariner" series that have been critically compared with the best of Alistair MacLean, Desmond Bagley and Hammond Innes. More recently he has been working on a series of detective thrillers with an Elizabethan background. This series, "The Master of Defense", has been characterised as 'James Bond meets Sherlock Holmes meets William Shakespeare'. Each story is a classic 'whodunit' with all the clues presented to the reader exactly as they are presented to the hero, Tom Musgrave. The Kirkus Review described them as having 'Elizabethan detail, rousing action sequences, sound detection...everything a fan of historical mysteries could hope for."
