Pirate Ship — Peter Tonkin

1997. A stormy dawn in the South China Sea.

Cargo vessel, Sulu Queen, drifts aimlessly.

She is only days out of Singapore, but a boarding party finds her full of corpses -- shot, stabbed, bludgeoned to death -- with only one wild-eyed survivor...

Injured in the confusion, and now suffering from total amnesia, he is identified as Captain Richard Mariner of the Heritage Mariner shipping company which owns the vessel.

He is immediately charged with the mass murder of thirty-nine fellow crew members.

It falls to Mariner's wife and business partner, Robin, to untangle this nightmarish web of brutality.

In order to decipher the fateful voyage of the Sulu Queen before Hong Kong reverts to Chinese rule, Robin is forced to join the sister ship, Seram Queen.

Little does she know that the horrific tragedy is likely to be repeated, and that she's now in a chilling race against time to save her husband's life -- and her own.

'The Pirate Ship' is a fast paced naval thriller from the Richard Mariner series, which will keep you guessing until the very end.

'Tonkin's Asia of gin slings and shifty orientals equals the best of James Clavell' Daily Telegraph

‘A master of sea-going adventure. Enough taut suspense to satisfy any reader' Clive Cussler.

Peter Tonkin was born in Northern Ireland, and was raised in the UK, Holland, Germany, and the Persian Gulf. He has written thirty novels including twenty-two Richard Mariner novels.