The Iceberg is the fifth in the Richard Mariner thriller-ish looking series by Peter Tonkin. It is free right now at Kindle US.
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http://www.amazon.com/Iceberg-Peter-...dp/B01552RW3A/
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1986, Chernobyl.
General Valerii Gogol has been forced into a desperate gamble to avoid total nuclear meltdown — a gamble with appalling consequences.
Within weeks his terrible secret is shipped north to be discarded in the forbidding wastes of the Arctic Ocean. Frozen, far away from civilization, it is forgotten — for a time.
Years later, Richard Mariner of the Heritage Mariner Shipping Company is commissioned by the United Nations to tow a huge iceberg from the Arctic Circle to a drought-stricken state on the west coast of Africa.
As that same country simmer on the brink of civil war, Mariner struggles to deliver the life-saving colossus — unaware of the contamination at its heart.
Others, however, are not so ignorant.
As the iceberg nears the African coast, friends become enemies and formerly unified crews turn into deadly adversaries.
Within the confines of the ship, tensions rise and the race against time begins as General Gogol himself, now sick and dying, is ordered to halt its progress at all costs.
No matter who gets hurt — or killed.
The Iceberg is a compelling thriller set against the backdrop of the Chernobyl disaster and the raging civil wars of the African continent.
By the author of The Leper Ship, The Fire Ship, The Coffin Ship and The Bomb Ship in the same series.
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