Dead Sea

by Peter Tonkin

Overview

An ambitious ecological experiment plunges Richard and Robin Mariner in deadly waters . . . Heritage Mariner and Greenbaum International have financed an ecological experiment to prove how swiftly rubbish can foul the oceans by dropping and tracking a plastic bottle into a Tokyo river. Filled with lottery tickets for extra publicity – one of which could be worth $55 million – Robin Mariner and Nic Greenbaum’s only child, Libby, will race each other across the Pacific to see who can reach the bottle first, but when it is discovered that it contains the winning ticket the experiment suddenly becomes part of a much deadlier game . . .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780103617
Publisher:	Severn House Publishers
Publication date:	02/01/2013
Series:	A Richard Mariner Adventure , #26
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Peter Tonkin was born in Ulster, son of an RAF officer. He spent much of his youth travelling the world from one posting to another. He went to school at Portora Royal, Enniskillen and Palmer's, Grays. He sang, acted, and published poetry, winning the Jan Palac Memorial Prize in 1968. He studied English with Seamus Heaney at Queen's Belfast. In his year were Paul Muldoon, Bernard MacLaverty and Ciaran Hinds.

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“Edge-of-the-seat entertainment for adventure fans”
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“Mariner's 26th escapade, written with crisp authority, abounds in Tonkin's trademark nautical action sequences. And the premise is his freshest and most viscerally appealing in years”
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Edge-of-the-seat entertainment for adventure fans

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Edge-of-the-seat entertainment for adventure fans

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Greed and green technology intersect with combustible results in a deadly maritime race. Disgusted by public indifference to the rampant pollution of the world's waterways, industrialist/adventurer Richard Mariner teams up with ecologist and magnate Nic Greenbaum for a brilliant publicity stunt. They invite seamen worldwide to compete in the hunt for a certain plastic bottle dropped into a Tokyo river. Inside the bottle are dozens of lottery tickets, one of which just might be a multimillion-dollar winner. Adding a dash of public relations panache are Richard's wife and fellow adventurer, Robin, and Greenbaum's daughter Liberty, a scholastic prodigy and accomplished sailor, in a kind of side bet. They'll race against each other, Liberty helming the Flint and Robin the Katapult, to the bottle, which moves from its original urban locality to the open seas, where most of the public is ignorant of spreading toxicity. Taking the bait, the media begin filming several crews that have avidly accepted the challenge. But the sublime plan of Greenbaum International and Heritage Mariner goes seriously awry with the discovery that the targeted bottle does indeed contain a winning ticket worth $110 million. The friendly competition instantly turns deadly, endangering both the reputations of the planners and countless lives, including those of their loved ones. Mariner's 26th escapade (Dark Heart, 2012, etc.), written with crisp authority, abounds in Tonkin's trademark nautical action sequences. And the premise is his freshest and most viscerally appealing in years.

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