Hell Gate

Richard Mariner #9

by Peter Tonkin

A revolutionary jet-ship is preparing for its maiden voyage. Powered by the mightiest water-jets and controlled by the most advanced computers, she can carry tons of cargo between Europe and America. When she is hijacked, Richard Mariner is enlisted to get an elite team of SAS soldiers on her.

314 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

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."