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    The Fire Ship
    The Fire Ship
    The Fire Ship
    Audiobook9 hours

    The Fire Ship

    Written by Peter Tonkin

    Narrated by Dave Courvoisier

    1.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks in Motion
    Release dateFeb 15, 2011
    ISBN9781605488851
    The Fire Ship
    Author

    Peter Tonkin

    Peter Tonkin was born in Ulster, son of an RAF officer. He spent much of his youth travelling the world from one posting to another. He went to school at Portora Royal, Enniskillen and Palmer's, Grays. He sang, acted, and published poetry, winning the Jan Palac Memorial Prize in 1968. He studied English with Seamus Heaney at Queen's Belfast. In his year were Paul Muldoon, Bernard MacLaverty and Ciaran Hinds.

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      This was publshed in the U.S. in 1992 and tells an action-packed story of atanker taken over by terrorists. Richard Mariner and his wife Robin and acouple other s set out to recover the ship. There is lots of action and people die, but the ending disappoints since it is not clear who lives and who dies and the story is not clealy wrapped up. I read the book because a Wikipedia article said tonkin "has been compared to Alistair macLean, Desmond Bagley,a nd Hammond INnes>' I have liked many of MacLean's bookjs and Innes' The Wreck of the Mary Deare is a master work. But this book is inferior to those works and non-clarity in the finale really turned me off.