Peter Tonkin, Author . Severn $25.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5684-5
A welcome aura of old-fashioned expertise surrounds Tonkin's latest seagoing thriller, which resembles a mixture of Ian Fleming and Hammond Innes. This solid background is especially handy when Tonkin's preference for canned corn—"R
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Peter Tonkin, Author Severn House Publishers $26.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5935-8
Elizabethan sword-master Tom Musgrave tries to bring to bay the Barguest, a spectral hound wreaking havoc along the Scottish border.
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Peter Tonkin, Author Crown Publishing Group (NY) $20 (289p) ISBN 978-0-517-58267-1
Summer 1990 in the Persian Gulf: A small band of unidentified Arabs hijacks Prometheus II , flagship supertanker of the Heritage Mariner oiler fleet. Sir William Heritage flies from London to Bahrain and is immediately kidnapped. His daughter Robin...
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Peter Tonkin, Author Crown Publishing Group (NY) $19.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-517-57523-9
``Coffin ship'' is a 19th-century term for a ship intended to sink so that its owner can collect insurance. When the officers of the contemporary supertanker Prometheus die in an apparent accident, Richard Mariner does not hesitate when hired to...
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Peter Tonkin, Author Severn House Publishers $25.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5723-1
Life imitates art, and Shakespeare's new play looks like a snuff film in Peter Tonkin's The Point of Death, the first installment of an Elizabethan crime series starring the heroic Master of Defence, Tom Musgrave. The author of the popular...
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Peter Tonkin, Author Severn House Publishers $26.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5724-8
The grimmer aspects of Elizabethan London come alive in Peter Tonkin's (The Point of Death) latest in his Master of Defence series, One Head Too Many. After saving a pretty girl in peril from football hooligans near London Bridge, Tom Musgrave (ak
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Peter Tonkin, Author, Peter Tomkin, Author Ivy Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8041-0872-0
A web of plots involving a supertanker, its crew and cargo, a beautiful woman and the inclement sea commands full interest in this first novel. (Aug.)
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