“Murder, piracy and reef-conservation in the Java Sea... enough plot to fill the Seven Seas.” Kirkus Reviews. The Indonesian Island of Pulau Baya early 2000’s. Nearly destroyed by a volcanic eruption some years earlier, the island has reinvented itself as a haven for eco-friendly vacationing. Richard and Robin Mariner are on their superyacht Tai-Fun, designed to have a carbon-negative footprint, on their way to the opening of the island’s 7-star Volcano Roads hotel.
But as they approach the hotel’s anchorage, they spot three bodies in the water. They are a boatman - and two marine conservation police.
While the boatman and one of the officers are dead, the other, a young woman, is just clinging to life. As they rush the dying officer to hospital, the Mariners realise that the eyes of the world are on the island, the hotel, the opening ceremony – and, suddenly, on them. As they attempt to unravel who they have rescued, why she was out in the bay and what has so nearly brought about her death, they discover – the hard way – that all is not as it should be.
There are fabulous fortunes to be made on the island and it seems that everyone, from the apparently legitimate to the clearly criminal, desire a slice of the action. And nobody seems to care who they have to kill in order to secure the prize. Peter Tonkin was born in 1950 in Ulster, Northern Ireland and was raised in the UK, Holland, Germany, and the Persian Gulf.
The son of an RAF officer, Tonkin spent much of his youth travelling the world from one posting to another. He is the author of the Trojan Murders series, Caesar's Spies and the Tom Musgrave Mysteries.
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