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Richard Mariner #10

by Peter Tonkin

Richard Mariner, aboard HMS Erebus delivering New Year supplies to NASA's Antarctic bases, becomes involved in an attempt to rescue a stranded astronaut. But then, as an FBI investigation into the astronaut's death traps them at the base, other deaths occur and suspicious events become explosive.

336 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1999

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."