Peter Tonkin has 11 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators. The most-rated is Deadly Impact.
Black Pearl
Summary
An incalculable fortune in conflict minerals lies on the bed of a lost lake in the middle of the African jungle, where an active volcano stands tall and deadly, having already destroyed the only civilisation nearby. The volcano serves as a border between two warring central African nations. And an uncontrolled, murderous guerrilla army claims the territory for its own, using a combination of modern terrorist techniques and timeless black magic to keep strangers out. Richard Mariner is leading a team into the savage heart of it all in a perilous mission, seeking the lake and the fortune it contains – his only clues a half-forgotten legend and a mysterious black pearl that is so much more than it seems.
©2013 Peter Tonkin (P)2014 Soundings
Benin Light
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Benin Light shines out through the darkness as Richard Mariner, marine adventurer, approaches on board the supertanker Prometheus V. The lighthouse is the marker for Granville Harbour, wild and inaccessible on the western coast of Africa. After an unfriendly exchange with the harbour master, Richard decides it is time to sort it out. His wife, Robin, organises one of the hotel's helicopters to pick him up, but when they are above the harbour bullets strike the side of the helicopter. The city is a place of poverty and corruption, but the couple are still shocked to see the Russian ex-militia man, Sergeant Voroshilov. And when armed guards arrive at the hotel to arrest Richard, trouble really begins...
©2008 Peter Tonkin (P)2009 Soundings
Ice Station
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Late summer in the Siberian Sea. Richard Mariner stands in the main control centre of Ice Station Zemlya, Russia’s massive new floating nuclear facility. As enormous seagoing tugs fight to position the ungainly monster, Richard is all too aware of dangerous – perhaps deadly – undercurrents. The multinational team helping the Russians to set up Zemlya are riven with disagreement, and there has been a relentless series of apparent accidents. But soon the whole situation begins to rapidly disintegrate. As a huge ice storm whirls towards the platform and threatens to cast the station adrift in American waters, Richard comes to the devastating realisation that someone is hell-bent on bringing about a nuclear catastrophe….
©2011 Peter Tonkin (P)2011 Soundings
Volcano Roads
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Richard and Robin Mariner are aboard Tai Fun, preparing to join their friends at the opening ceremony of the luxury Volcano Roads hotel on the Indonesian island of Pulau Baya, when they spot two bodies floating in the still Java Sea. The victims are marine police, and while one of them is beyond help, the other is clinging to life. As they rush the dying woman to shore, it seems that the eyes of the entire world are on the island. But, even allowing for the mysterious patient, Richard and Robin soon discover that all is not as it should be. There are fortunes to be made on this rejuvenated island and everyone wants a slice of the action….
©2009 Peter Tonkin (P)2010 Soundings
The Coffin Ship
Summary
The fate of Prometheus rests in the hands of Richard Mariner, the tanker’s new captain. It is his responsibility to battle human treachery and the dangers of the open sea to bring Prometheus to safe harbor. From the Persian Gulf to the storm-tossed Atlantic, Mariner and his crew will struggle against the elements while trying to uncover the elusive—and cunning—enemy in their midst.
©2009 Peter Tonkin (P)2010 Books In Motion
The Prison Ship
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Summer 2011. Richard Mariner and his daughter, Mary, are visiting the Maritime Museum at Chatham when they get caught up in a terrorist attack. Among the survivors is a man who turns out to be one of the terrorists, Sayed Mohammed. Subsequently, Richard becomes involved with fitting out a new prison ship moored in the Thames estuary. This is part of a new government initiative which will see the ship filled with the most dangerous Islamic extremists in the country – one of whom is Sayed Mohammed. As the case against Mohammed progresses, Richard and Mary uncover a terrifying plot, and Richard realises he is the only man who can save the capital from certain destruction.
©2010 Peter Tonkin (P)2011 Soundings
Dead Sea
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Horrified by the pollution in the Pacific, Richard Mariner and Nic Greenbaum finance an experiment – to throw a bottle into a Tokyo river and track it out into the ocean. Meanwhile, Richard’s wife and Nic’s daughter will race across the ocean captaining rival yachts fighting to reach the bottle first – unaware that they will be tested to the limit. To generate extra publicity, the bottle is filled with lottery tickets, any one of which could be worth $110 million. But as it whirls towards the centre of a floating garbage patch the size of Texas, a rumour begins to spread that it contains the winning ticket. So the experiment becomes a deadly game as lethally dangerous players become involved.
©2012 Peter Tonkin (P)2013 Soundings
River of Ghosts
Summary
Deep in the East China Sea, the remote deep-sea vessel Neptune edges through the blackness of the Ryukyu Trench. Richard and Robin Mariner are actually 5,000 metres above Neptune, in the vehicle control room of Poseidon, testing their company’s latest acquisition. Suddenly, a distress call comes in from a trapped submarine that is running out of air. The submarine has been on news networks for the last few days, as its widely publicised mission is to recover lost gold from the greatest of Kublai Khan’s huge treasure ships. But as the Mariners and their associates guide Neptune to the rescue, a different, darker story is uncovered. Was the submarine’s voyage simply a mask for another, more sinister, mission?
©2009 Peter Tonkin (P)2010 Soundings
The Fire Ship
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The freighter came like a ghost off the hazy horizon, strafed by gunfire, abandoned by her crew… and laden with explosives. Richard Mariner is aboard a new high-tech sailing vessel when he encounters the fire ship, never realizing it’s only the beginning of a deadly adventure. As Mariner sails through the Indian Ocean, he learns the prize tanker in his family’s fleet, Prometheus II, has been seized by terrorists in the Persian Gulf, and his father-in-law has been kidnapped in Bahrain. To wrest back what’s rightfully his - and to protect his loved ones - he’ll have to race through treacherous waters and take on a group of terrorist pirates that even the world intelligence agencies can’t locate - a trial by fire Mariner can’t afford to fail.
©1991 Peter Tonkin (P)2011 Books In Motion
The Red River
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A massive earthquake has hit the heart of China, causing the unthinkable to happen: The Three Gorges Dam has failed, and there are 55 trillion gallons of water heading downstream. Richard and Robin Mariner are aboard Poseidon, part way between Shanghai and Nanjing, when they hear the news. Logic dictates that they should run downstream to the safety of the ocean. But Richard has other plans. He heads upstream on a mission for the mysterious government official Daniel Huuk, whose main objective is to try to save Nanjing and Shanghai. Both men are convinced that a small group of dedicated people could make all the difference in the end. If they can survive the destructive power of the terrible Red River…
©2010 Peter Tonkin (P)2011 Soundings
Deadly Impact
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Sayonara. The world’s largest liquid natural gas tanker. She represents a huge and risky investment for Heritage Mariner. The first vessel of this size to sail without a crew, she is programmed to dock automatically in Japan. Her cargo has the potential of 55 atom bombs, which will power the construction of the floating city of Kujukuri 35 miles west of Tokyo. But four days before docking, a group of pirates goes aboard, breaks into her secure areas, hacks her computers and takes control. Richard Mariner has 99 hours to assemble a team and retake Sayonara in an increasingly desperate, danger-filled race against time to save his ship, protect his company and safeguard one of the most densely populated areas on Earth.
©2014 Peter Tonkin (P)2015 Soundings