The Ark of Marindor Author:Barry Targan When Katherine is approached by a mysterious foreigner with a valise full of cash and asked to recover material from a plane downed off the southern coast, she accepts the offer without much thought. She is good, after all, at avoiding thinking about things, and the prospect of adventure is compelling to her. But what Katherine doesn't bargain... more » for is that other people are thinking-people who have watched her dock, watched her disembark with her new, young crew and begin to outfit The Marindor for a long trip, spending money as though it isn't hers. In this suspenseful and thoughtful novel, Barry Targan presents the story of a woman who comes to learn that thinking - and thinking clearly - is paramount. Matched against an adversary as clever as she, Katherine is forced to negotiate increasingly narrow passages of oceanography and culpability. The Ark of the Marindor is a morally complex and dramatic nautical thriller, with an ending that roars like the wind during Katherine's final race for shore.« less