Kirjahaku

SATAN TAKES THE HELMMartin Lewandowski is out of work and sitting in a San Francisco bar when he hears that someone is hiring for the position of chief officer on the Trader. So with nothing to lose, he applies for the job. The person doing the hiring is a nice surprise. Joyce is the ship captain's wife, and Martin is just the person she's looking for. Captain Sloan is too lenient and needs a chief officer with backbone. He's also too old, too crippled, and just too ugly for Joyce. Theirs is a marriage of convenience that has grown inconvenient for Joyce. What she needs in a chief officer is more than a man who can keep the crew in line. She needs a man who will help her replace the captain...

HELL SHIP TO KUMAJohnny Roper should be captain of his own ship by now, but bad luck seems to follow him around. He's forced to hire on as bridge officer on the Wanderer, a rusty old freighter with a dubious crew, to get back on his feet. The engineer is a drug addict, the mate a coward, the second mate a thief... and the captain, Murdock, a sadistic bully. Their mission is to pick up freight on Kuma. But as Roper soon finds out, they have a passenger on board-Karen Gorman has been hired by Kuma's big boss, Da-Chong, as an entertainer on the island. Roper should have known better than to sign on, because the Wanderer is a hell ship headed for disaster. BARGE GIRLThe first time tug captain Joe Baski sees Stella she's standing on a coal barge, hanging up her washing. The way the sunlight shines through her tight dress, Baski knows right off he's going to have to meet her. But he quickly finds out that Stella-raised on the New York East Side, looking for a way out-married an older guy named Murk. Undaunted, Baski seduces the blond beauty. That's when his troubles begin. Because a near-fatal accident involving Murk arouses the attention of Delancy, the local cop, and more importantly, the insurance claimer, Coletti. Colleti says the accident is Baski's fault, that he had been planning murder. And in his heart, Baski knows that Colleti might be very close to right.