Goliath
A Thriller
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- $1.99
Publisher Description
A giant Russian tanker ablaze in the Bering Sea about to create the world's worst eco-disaster—and not just from the oil
In the Bering Sea, Bennkah, the largest oil tanker ever built, newly commissioned in Vladivostok, Russia, is on its maiden voyage. Well-respected Captain Nicholas Borodin is at the helm, and for a reason only he knows, his agitation is palpable.
Soon an engineer discovers a defect—seemingly minor, but one with disastrous potential. Despite his attempts to correct the problem, a fire erupts, contained at first, then rapidly spreads out of control, consuming the behemoth tanker.
A Mayday call alerts Captain Sonny Wade some two hundred miles from the burning ship. This could be the lifeline that Sonny and his ragtag crew need to save their failing salvage business. But Dal Sharpe, Sonny's nemesis and former employer—the owner of the largest salvage business in all of the northwest—also hears the call. A heart-stopping race is on to claim the hulk before it contaminates the entire north Pacific Rim.
But Sonny learns there's more at stake than anyone realizes—a catastrophe of monstrous proportions.
Perfect for fans of Tom Clancy and Clive Cussler
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The Russian-built Bennkah (Russian for Goliath), the world's largest commercial tanker, is filled with five million barrels of crude and a far more dangerous secret cargo. Early in Corridan and Waid's riveting first novel, the supertanker catches fire in the southern Bering Sea near the Aleutians, and there's nothing anyone can do to stop it. The giant ship runs aground on an island, where the flaming hulk becomes officially salvage, leading to a race to claim her between good-guy Capt. Sonny Wade aboard the beat-up Skeleton, based in Dutch Harbor, and the greedy, unprincipled Dan Sharpe, owner of the ultramodern salvager Sharpe-Shooter in Anchorage. Sonny wins the race to the stricken ship, but soon finds a tsunami of troubles as he battles the still-burning fires, a threatening oil leak, his own rambunctious crew, a secret saboteur, and the unpredictable, vicious weather. Dan's arrival adds to his woes. Fans of nautical adventures will be enthralled and pleased to know that Corridan and Waid are teeing up another outing for Sonny and his motley crew.
