The Petronov Plan — James Pattinson

Ex-Marine Tom Cord, partnered by one-time Polish seaman Jan Kusiak, was scraping a bare living with his boat BUENAVENTURA when the two men came to him with a proposition: one million pesos for a small voyage along the coast. Cord was dubious about accepting the offer, and it was not until the girl added her very persuasive contribution to the argument that his resistance began to crumble. Though a lot of things were destined to go badly wrong, there were undoubted compensations.