Books written by Peter Tonkin

  • One Head Too Many
    One Head Too Many

    Inge Van Der Leyden climbed into the Queen's coach , showing her royal breeding as absolutely as did Kate : two backs stiff and two heads held high . It was Inge's pale hand that fastened on the handle of the buried axe and jerked it ...

  • The Coffin Ship
    The Coffin Ship

    Captain Richard Mariner struggles against a faceless enemy and the harsh elements of nature aboard a seemingly doomed supertanker that might be rescued by the strength of one woman. Reprint.

  • Dark Heart
    Dark Heart

    Dark Heart follows on from Benin Light, although it is not a sequel. Benin Light made use of Tim Butcher's Blood River for some of its inspiration, and in the same way Dark Heart makes use of his Chasing the Devil.

  • Dead Sea
    Dead Sea

    The distant bow cut through the huge green ocean with a solid certainty. The wake churned along the sides of the powerful vessel, then split into a wide V across the ocean behind it.

  • The Zero Option
    The Zero Option

    Thriller. Reporter Samantha Webster and Intelligence officer Derek Mills stumble upon a Russian Cold War cloning programme, and find themselves in a race against time to reveal the true identity of the American president.

  • Cape Farewell: A Richard Mariner Thriller
    Cape Farewell: A Richard Mariner Thriller

    The son of an RAF officer, Tonkin spent much of his youth travelling the world from one posting to another. He is also the author of the Richard Mariner Thriller Collection, Caesar's Spies and the Tom Musgrave Mysteries.

  • The Hound of the Borders
    The Hound of the Borders

    Featuring Tom Musgrave, Elizabethan sword-master and sleuth.

  • The Iceberg

    The Iceberg

  • Powerdown
    Powerdown

    A NASA astronaut is dying on the Antarctic ice-shelf. Testing an experimental space-suit in the extreme conditions, he is lost in the white-out, facing a total communications and life-support powerdown.