Geoffrey Jenkins Books in Order

A man seeking redemption enters the dangerous waters along Africa’s Skeleton Coast. Conflicting loyalties and escalating peril turn his voyage into a struggle against both human opponents and a coastline that offers little chance of escape.

Bruce Weatherby knows the location of a remote island containing minerals valuable for rocket fuel. A ruthless whaling magnate wants his help reaching it, drawing Weatherby into a struggle against dangerous men and the severe conditions of southern waters.

An expedition seeking diamonds near an African island encounters determined resistance from a man intent on sabotaging the operation. As the mining project advances, hostile surroundings and its mysterious opponent turn commercial ambition into a struggle for survival.

A cancelled missile project sends a nuclear submarine on a secret mission carrying the scientist who champions it, the American vice-president. British commander Geoffrey Peace must evade hostile forces and dangerous seas to reach the launch in time.

A wrongly convicted man becomes involved in the search for the secret behind an exceptionally large diamond. With two killers threatening his life, his effort to uncover the truth draws him into a dangerous diamond-smuggling adventure.

Weather-ship captain Ian Fairlie investigates two disappearances off South Africa that claimed his father and grandfather decades apart. Facing official opposition and violent seas, he risks his ship and the woman he loves to discover what happened.

Former South African naval officer Struan Weddell is summoned back into service for a secret assignment on remote Possession Island. Becoming its headman places him on the forbidding Diamond Coast, carrying out a mission entrusted by his former commander.

Oceanographer Ian Ogilvie travels to Mozambique to build an electric shark barrier for the secretive John Barrow. Discovering parallels with an expedition more than a century earlier, he investigates the hidden purpose behind his employer’s urgent preparations.

A former Norwegian whaler becomes a cruise ship carrying passengers into Antarctic waters. Among its crew is an ex-Nazi determined to finish a wartime betrayal, bringing hidden danger to a voyage through an already hazardous landscape.

An advanced sailing ship’s record-breaking voyage becomes a nightmare when its captain is murdered and saboteurs strike. New captain Peter Rainer must discover why rival powers want the vessel before losing both his command and the woman he loves.

A valuable deposit of iridium near South Africa’s diamond fields attracts people eager to control its strategic power. An East German scientist finds his secret threatened as competing interests converge on a remote mining operation and turn against him.

British engineer Hallam Cane joins an undersea energy project at Cape Agulhas and encounters unexplained accidents and competing outside interests. With his girlfriend Maris, he investigates suspicious salvage work and land purchases amid growing fear around the research.

Scientist Kepler West develops a method for making nuclear waste safe in South Africa, offering a solution others are determined to discredit. His opponents are willing to provoke a nuclear incident to ensure the scheme fails publicly.

A terrorist determined to avenge his family and homeland joins forces with wanted criminals in a plot against a dam. Goldsmith Grania Yeats and barrister Sholto Banks must recover her golden masterpiece before it reveals its deadly secret.

Zara Hennessy leads a Cape Town terrorist cell in a campaign that moves from defacing Nelson’s effigy to a planned act of sabotage. Her vendetta targets an exchange intended to demonstrate friendship between South Africa and Britain.

A necklace fashioned from crystals discovered in Namibia in 1912 connects an earlier colonial history with the illegal diamond trade from Angola. Geoffrey Jenkins follows the dangerous interests surrounding the stones as their past reaches into a later conflict.