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The world is desperate to find new reusable and recyclable sources of power and the means to store that power. The mineral Painite is the latest in a long line, but it is in short supply. Ben Petersen and Charlie Lewis stumble on a huge block of the mineral and from that point on their lives change, and not necessarily for the better. Beverly Hammond, who owned the sample, is determined to retrieve it and destroy anybody or anything that gets in her way.
Since leaving the International Marine Police two years earlier Commander Ben Petersen has made a name for himself skippering luxury yachts for their wealthy owners; a far cry from bringing pirates and people traffickers, smugglers and wanted criminals to justice.
His present voyage is with ex-Royal Navy Captain Charlie Lewis, an old friend who is building a luxury yacht business attracting wealthy tourists to experience a life at sea whilst working their passage between England and the Mediterranean. Lewis has bought his latest luxury yacht, Jenny C, the eighth vessel to join his fleet. Petersen's agreed to help him sail her back from her home port in St Lucia to Falmouth on England's south coast.
Before sailing Lewis dines with old acquaintance Beverley Hammond, an astute and successful criminal. Her current venture involves opening a secret mine in Portugal to extract Painite, one of the world's most valuable minerals. Hammond sees Lewis' yacht as a way to smuggle her Painite into England so she attacks it as Petersen and Lewis get closer to home.
The attack fails but Petersen captures her hidden Painite. Back in England Special Branch interview him as a suspect in the attack rather than a victim and Petersen puts his new trade to one side to revert to what he does best: investigate, intervene and eliminate.
As important as that, he wants to know what the mysterious stone is that he took from the vessel that attacked him. A close friend introduces him to eminent geologist Gail Reilly who analyses the mineral and tells him that it is the most efficient of all natural minerals for storing electricity. A fact that the British Government has already established as they plan to use it in their new eco-friendly Stealth Bomber, but its rarity makes it expensive, even for governments that spend billions of pounds each year, not millions.
When Hammond wins the contract to supply the Painite she forces the price even higher. But without the means to import her Painite legally is desperate to use Lewis' yachts to smuggle more of the mineral into England.
Petersen's investigations bring him into conflict with the Police but he is determined to find out why Jenny C was attacked and who was behind it. Using the knowledge, experience and crafts he developed with his old employer he pieces the story together through good old fashioned logic, analysis and investigation. And through risking his own life and those of Lewis and Reilly to bring an unknown criminal to whatever justice he decides is best.
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