Authors: Peter Tonkin
The Coffin Ship (26 page)
Only when he was satisfied they were breathing properly, did C. J. Martyr find the leisure to remove his Drager gear and collapse onto the deck, exhausted. Then Richard was sitting up, gulping great lungfuls of air, filling his chest until it hurt wonderfully, officially in charge again. “Better take the pair of us down to the sick bay and check us out properly,” he ordered John, first officer and medic since Ben Strong had gone to the deep six with
Prometheus
’s bow section.
But Robin had one word more. She sat up at once with a shudder. “Sick bay be damned,” said Richard Mariner’s new second mate. “Get me to a shower.”
She reached up and wiped the filth from her captain’s face, then wiped a matching handful from her own.
“Oil!”
she cried. “God, how I hate the filthy stuff!”
“Peter Tonkin has proven himself a master of seagoing adventure. Enough taut suspense and danger to satisfy any reader.”
—Clive Cussler
“A bang-up story, which Peter Tonkin tells with an insider’s skill.”
—New York Daily News
“Plenty of adventure.”
—Chicago Tribune
“This kind of story has built-in excitement…. Convincing.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“While the complex story line commands full interest, this first novel is further strengthened by its description of supertanker operations that are routine only in their dangers.”
—Publishers Weekly
“A tight, no-nonsense, seagoing adventure.”
—The Kirkus Review
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February 2009
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