Peter Tonkin

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  • Bibliography:
    46 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1979
  • Latest Book:
    September 2020
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Full Series List in Order

Caesar's Spies

1 - The Ides (Mar-2018)
2 - After The Ides (Apr-2018)
3 - Cicero Dies! (Nov-2018)
4 - The Road To War (Feb-2019)
5 - Death at Philippi (Apr-2020)

A Richard Mariner Adventure

1 - The Coffin Ship (1989)
2 - The Fire Ship (1990)
3 - The Leper Ship (1992)
4 - Bomb Ship (1993)
5 - The Iceberg (1994)
6 - Pirate Ship (1995)
7 - Meltdown (1996)
8 - Tiger Island (1997)
9 - Hellgate (1998)
10 - Powerdown (Nov-1999)
11 - High Water (Jun-2016)
12 - Thunder Bay (May-2001)
13 - Titan 10 (Aug-2004)
14 - Wolf Rock (May-2005)
15 - Resolution Burning (May-2006)
16 - Cape Farewell (Oct-2006)
17 - The Ship Breakers (May-2007)
18 - High Wind in Java (Dec-2007)
19 - Benin Light (Nov-2008)
20 - River of Ghosts (Jun-2009)
21 - Volcano Roads (Feb-2010)
22 - The Prison Ship (Jun-2010)
23 - The Red River (Feb-2011)
24 - Ice Station (Aug-2011)
25 - The Dark Heart (Jul-2012)
26 - Dead Sea (Feb-2013)
27 - Black Pearl (Sep-2013)
28 - Deadly Impact (May-2014)
29 - Mariner's Ark (May-2015)
30 - Blind Reef (Nov-2015)

The State of the Union

1 - The Zero Option (Jul-1997)

The Trojan Murders

1 - Beware of Greeks (Jun-2020)
2 - Vengeance at Aulis (Sep-2020)

Book List in Order: 46 titles

  • Killer

    They were caught in the ultimate trap. They faced the ultimate terror.Five men and one beautiful woman. Marooned on a floating island of arctic ice. Together they had the equipment and skills to fight the freezing cold, the violently savage storms.Th...

  • The Coffin Ship

    A Richard Mariner Adventure - 1

    'A master of seagoing adventure.' Clive CusslerThe giant supertanker Prometheus sits at anchor in the Persian Gulf, holding 250,000 tons of crude oil. Somewhere on board is a crew member who is determined that the ship not make it to its destination ...

  • The Fire Ship

    A Richard Mariner Adventure - 2

    The discovery of an abandoned freighter in the Indian Ocean corresponds with the hijacking of a supertanker owned by shipping magnates Richard and Robin Mariner, but when Robin's father is kidnapped, the response will be personal. Reprint....

  • The Leper Ship

    A Richard Mariner Adventure - 3

    Richard Mariner - Book 3'A master of seagoing adventure.' Clive CusslerWhile removing toxic waste from a dead zone in the Palestinian desert, the captain of the Napoli is killed by local villagers whose land and families have been destroyed.Fully lad...

  • Bomb Ship

    A Richard Mariner Adventure - 4

    Richard Mariner has commissioned twin ships designed to transport nuclear waste across the Atlantic. But bad luck and weather trap one behind ice in imminent danger of being crushed. The other goes to help - unaware that the bomb at the ships' launch...

  • The Iceberg

    A Richard Mariner Adventure - 5

  • Pirate Ship

    A Richard Mariner Adventure - 6

    1997. A stormy dawn in the South China Sea. Cargo vessel, Sulu Queen, drifts aimlessly. She is only days out of Singapore, but a boarding party finds her full of corpses -- shot, stabbed, bludgeoned to death -- with only one wild-eyed survivor......

  • Meltdown

    A Richard Mariner Adventure - 7

    Richard Mariner, of the Heritage-Mariner Shipping Company, has delivered the great iceberg, codenamed Manhattan, to the drought stricken country of Mau in West Africa. But the political situation, and the weather, soon heat up, threatening disaster....

  • The Action



  • Tiger Island

    A Richard Mariner Adventure - 8

    The ends of the earth. The depths of despair. The height of passion…Tiger Island, lying at the heart of a ships’ graveyard, is completely isolated.But when tsunami waves cover up the deadly reefs around it, only a handful of brave ships reach the...

  • The Zero Option

    The State of the Union - 1

    President Lincoln Hawk calls a Summit Meeting for Independence Day. His apparent reason is concern about social unrest. But there are those who wonder whether Hawk, ex-head of the CIA, is secretly more interested in meeting Premier Andropov, ex-head ...

  • Hellgate

    A Richard Mariner Adventure - 9

    A revolutionary jet-ship is preparing for its maiden voyage. Powered by the mightiest water-jets and controlled by the most advanced computers, she can carry tons of cargo between Europe and America. When she is hijacked, Richard Mariner is enlisted ...

  • Powerdown

    A Richard Mariner Adventure - 10

    Richard Mariner, aboard HMS Erebus delivering New Year supplies to NASA's Antarctic bases, becomes involved in an attempt to rescue a stranded astronaut. But then, as an FBI investigation into the astronaut's death traps them at the base, other death...

  • Thunder Bay

    A Richard Mariner Adventure - 12

    English couple Richard and Robin Mariner are soon to launch the revolutionary SuperCats, their fast ferry service from Thunder Bay across the Great Lakes of Canada. But when the naked body of a young woman is discovered on the lake, the ensuing murde...

  • The Point of Death

    The first book in The Master of Defence series, featuring Elizabethan sleuth Tom Musgrave London, 1594. It's the opening night of Romeo and Juliet and Mercutio is murdered in the middle of the play - but it's real blood that flows. Master of Defence ...

  • One Head Too Many

    A new investigation for Elizabethan sleuth Tom Musgrave. A mob playing football on London Bridge kick the ball over the Great Stone Gateway, where the heads of executed traitors are displayed, and it is the head of a woman that falls down the other s...

  • The Hound of the Borders

    The third book in the Master of Defence series, featuring Elizabethan sleuth Tom MusgraveDuring rehearsals for the first-ever performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Tom is called away to hear the news of his brother's death. The cause? Fear John w...

  • The Silent Woman

  • Titan 10

    A Richard Mariner Adventure - 13

    The thirteenth action adventure in the Mariner series
    July 2008. Prometheus 4, the first of a new generation of supertankers, plunges round the North Cape, heading for its rendezvous in the Barents Sea with Titan 10, from which it will collect its...



  • Wolf Rock

    A Richard Mariner Adventure - 14

    The fourteenth action adventure in the Mariner series In a terrible storm in the English Channel, Richard Mariner receives a Mayday signal. Mariner's SuperCat plunges across the dangerously busy shipping lanes and most of the distressed crew are save...

  • Resolution Burning

    A Richard Mariner Adventure - 15

    The gripping new Richard Mariner adventure Richard Mariner battles across a stormy Antarctic Ocean to find the great French super tanker, Lady Mary, drifting aflame towards the volcanic outcrop of Kerguelen Island. His task is a desperate one: alone,...

  • Cape Farewell

    A Richard Mariner Adventure - 16

    The new Richard Mariner adventure - When Richard Mariner's tug Sisyphus is hit by a huge rogue wave off the Greenland coast, only superb seamanship and good luck save her. The vessels ahead of Sissy are not so fortunate and an ever-more desperate rac...

  • The Ship Breakers

    A Richard Mariner Adventure - 17

    The new Mariner adventureRichard and Robin Mariner are supplying retired tankers to a Russian consortium. When Robin attracts the attentions of a shadowy group of men, she seeks refuge on board Prometheus4 and makes a desperate phone call to Richard....

  • High Wind in Java

    A Richard Mariner Adventure - 18

    A new Richard Mariner adventure - Richard Mariner is out to buy the revolutionary vessel Tai Fun, but not if multi-millionaire eco-warrior Nic Greenbaum has his way. The situation is further complicated when the tiny island of Pulau Baya, Tai Funs fi...

  • Benin Light

    A Richard Mariner Adventure - 19

    A Richard Mariner Adventure - Benin Light, the lighthouse marker for the bay that will lead to Granville Harbour, wild and inaccessible on the western coast of Africa, is a welcome sight for Richard and Robin Mariner. Until someone opens fire on them...

  • River of Ghosts

    A Richard Mariner Adventure - 20

    The exciting new Richard Mariner marine adventure - Richard and Robin Mariner are testing the unmanned sub Neptune when a distress call comes in from a submarine whose mission is to recover the lost gold of Kublai Khan. It has become trapped on th...

  • Volcano Roads

    A Richard Mariner Adventure - 21

    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 sea. Richard and Robin soon di...

  • The Prison Ship

    A Richard Mariner Adventure - 22

    Richard Mariner and his daughter are visiting the Maritime Museum at Chatham when they are caught up in an attempted terrorist attack. Three young marine engineers are arrested for the failed attack and confined to the newly commissioned prison ship,...

  • The Red River

    A Richard Mariner Adventure - 23

    Richard Mariner has just ridden out an earthquake powerful enough to destroy the Three Gorges Dam. He knows he should be ordering his ship, the Poseidon, back down the Yangtze at flank speed. But several things are making him hesitate: Architect Chan...



  • Ice Station

    A Richard Mariner Adventure - 24

    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. But there are dangerous undercurrents. The international team setting up Zemlya are riven with...

  • The Dark Heart

    A Richard Mariner Adventure - 25

    Richard and Robin Mariner are thrust into danger as they enter the dark heart of West Africa . . . Having helped the President of a powerful West African nation take control of the country, Richard and Robin Mariner are now among a select group ...

  • Dead Sea

    A Richard Mariner Adventure - 26

    An ambitious ecological experiment plunges Richard and Robin Mariner in deadly waters . . . Heritage Mariner and Greenbaum International have financed an ecological experiment to prove how swiftly rubbish can foul the oceans by dropping and tracking ...

  • Black Pearl

    A Richard Mariner Adventure - 27

    An incalculable fortune in conflict minerals lies on the bed of a lost lake. The lake lies in the middle of a jungle hardly changed since the age of the dinosaurs, while the jungle stands on the slope of an active volcano which has destroyed the only...

  • Football Mambo

    A funny Australian mystery about Adelaide and football and fishing and voodoo and wives.

    When down-at-heel Adelaide private detective Bruce Bilger accepts a curious but seemingly trivial case from a local Australian Rules football club, the...

  • Deadly Impact

    A Richard Mariner Adventure - 28

    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, using only computer control and millimetre-precise GPS positioning, she ...

  • Mariner's Ark

    A Richard Mariner Adventure - 29

    Richard and Robin Mariner are in Long Beach, California, to oversee the arrival of their container ship, Sulu Queen, before joining their friend Nic Greenbaum aboard his fifty-million-dollar motor yacht as he races his daughter Liberty in an Olympic-...

  • Blind Reef

    A Richard Mariner Adventure - 30

    Richard and Robin Mariner’s quest to rescue a kidnapped girl leads them into the perilous heart of the Sinai desert. Richard and Robin Mariner, relaxing in Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt, suddenly find themselves saving the lives of several refugees w...

  • High Water

    A Richard Mariner Adventure - 11

  • The Ides

    Caesar's Spies - 1

    March, 44BCCaesar is a dead man...A plan to murder the most powerful political leader in the world is under way.More than twenty assassins are directly involved.Hundreds of others are aware of the plot, with thousands more hoping for its success.Only...



  • After The Ides

    Caesar's Spies - 2

  • Cicero Dies!

    Caesar's Spies - 3

    43BC.The Roman world remains in turmoil more than a year after Caesar's assassination.His murderers pillage Macedonia and Syria, building armies, refusing to obey the orders of the Senate, led by Cicero, to return and take control of the Republic bef...

  • The Road To War

    Caesar's Spies - 4

    Superb ... For fans of steven saylor and conn iggulden. Richard ForemanROME. 42 BC.Rome and its empire are in turmoil.Severed heads fill the Forum. Cicero's remains among them, more than two months after his death.Power lies with Antony and Caesar's ...

  • A Verse To Murder

    Peter Tonkin delivers again. The personalities and plots of the Elizabethan age sparkle in this fast-paced thriller. Steven Veerapen, author of The Abbey CloseSaturday, 13 January 1599. Poet and politician Edmund Spenser is found dead in his lodgings...

  • Death at Philippi

    Caesar's Spies - 5

    Gripping from start to finish. Alistair Forrest, author of Libertas.42BC.Mark Antony's most dangerous and dedicated agent, Iacomus Artemidorus, is swept overboard from Cleopatra's flagship during a terrible storm. But the near end to the Roman spy is...

  • Beware of Greeks

    The Trojan Murders - 1

    'Another triumph from a master storyteller.' Alistair Forrest, author of Nest of VipersGreece. Circa 1190 BCE.The Greek world is in turmoil as Agamemnon prepares for war against Troy.His friends and allies scour the cities and islands, demanding that...

  • Vengeance at Aulis

    The Trojan Murders - 2

    The Trojan Murders: Book TwoEntertaining crime fiction, set against a classical backdrop. For fans of Homer and Sherlock Holmes. Richard Foreman, author of Spies of Rome The Port City of Aulis, Greece 1190 BCE. The Greek fleet of a thousand ships...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Peter Tonkin has published 46 books.

Peter Tonkin does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Vengeance at Aulis, was published in September 2020.

The first book by Peter Tonkin, Killer, was published in January 1979.

Yes. Peter Tonkin has 4 series.
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