"Target Risk" by John Wingate. This is a 150+ page paperback book in yellowed but reasonable condition. It is an interesting and well written book that will be a good read for people interested in maritime technology. I was tempted to put this thriller into the sci-fi category for that reason, but in the book that is only the background. Despite being thirty years old and with mistaken assumptions about the future it is still engrossing reading.

If you win auctions for three or more of my books I will pay all of the postage cost.

This 1979 paperback says on the back cover:

"'FAST-MOVING AND GRIPPING' Lancaster Evening News

Kartar Browne's name stank in the shipping world; Planeka International profited from underpaid crews, unsafe and underinsured ships. But the contract to service Planeka's newest and largest tanker could establish David Krivine's struggling enterprise. And LEVIATHAN was a technically perfect masterpiece. Powered by four nuclear reactors, fitted with the ultimate in navigational and communication equipment, she was as near safe as man can make a ship. She would never break down, could never be involved in a collision. She was also the biggest insurance risk Lloyds had ever been asked to underwrite. To Krivine the job represented his company's future, and security for himself and his family. It was, after all, only a slight variation in a routine hull-cleaning procedure. Already enmeshed in Browne's dubious schemes, Krivine chose to stifle his uneasiness until it was too late. Then he could only hope to lessen the effects of the inevitable disaster."