"Robin Mariner is looking forward to a restful holiday aboard the state-of-the-art sailing cruiser Tai Fun exploring the romantic Java Sea. Her hopes are shattered when she realizes that her husband Richard is actually here to buy the revolutionary vessel, and the High Wind cruising company of which she is flag ship. But Richard's own plans are in turn thrown awry by the arrival aboard of Nic Greenbaum, the legendary Texan multi-millionaire eco-warrior: one of the few men able to outmanoeuvre him. Nic too wants Tai Fun, and seems willing to play almost any dirty game to get her.They begin a complex hand of financial and emotional blackjack when another, even more unexpected, element is added. The tiny island princedom of Pulau Baya, Tai Fun's final port of call, is torn back into the Stone Age by a series of unexplained, overwhelming disasters which even charismatic Prince Sailendra cannot control. Helpless and desperate the islanders go out to pirate and pillage. And the first vessel to appear over their horizon is the Tai Fun"--Front flap

Peter Tonkin

Sutton: Severn House

Canongate Books

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Sutton, 2008, ©2007

December 1, 2007

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Robin Mariner's hopes for a romantic holiday aboard the luxury cruiser "Tai Fun" are squashed when she discovers her husband Richard is viewing the outing as a business trip with an eye toward buying the vessel and the entire High Wind cruising company, and tension mounts when wealthy eco-warrior Nic Greenbaum enters the bidding, but all deals are off when the boat comes under attack by survivors of a series of disasters on the tiny island of Pulau Baya

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 final port of call, is torn by a series of unexplained, overwhelming disasters. Helpless and desperate, the islanders go out to pirate and pillage. And the first vessel to appear over their horizon is the Tai Fun ..

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