The Iceberg

Richard Mariner #5

by Peter Tonkin

In 1986 General Gogol made a gamble to avoid total nuclear meltdown. Within weeks his secret was being shipped to the Arctic Ocean. Years later, Richard Mariner is commissioned to tow an iceberg to a drought-stricken state - unaware of the contamination at its heart. Others are not so ignorant.

Genres: Thriller

416 pages, Paperback

First published September 8, 1994

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."

Reviews

[MR BARRY DAVIS]

A slow starter

It took me about 50 pages to really start to enjoy this book, but as with all the previous Peter Tonkin books from then onwards it was almost impossible to put down, although when the end came I wondered if there is another book hiding in the iceberg along with the Nuclear problems already there.