Ridley Pearson: Blood of the Albatross (USA 2018)

From the Publisher:
An innocent Seattle sailor is pulled into a dangerous web of espionage in this thriller that "is almost impossible to put the book down" (The Oregonian).
In this "enthralling" thriller by the New York Times-bestselling author, Jay Becker, an overworked, underpaid musician, is trying to earn some extra cash by giving sailing lessons on Puget Sound (The San Diego Union-Tribune). When a mysterious woman named Marlene hires him for what appears to be a simple expedition, he has no idea that he will be drawn into a plot that involves the CIA, the FBI, and a kaleidoscope of spy, counterspy; cross, double-cross -- with the lives of himself, the woman he loves, and his best friend hanging in the balance

Ridley Pearson: Blood of the Albatross. Open Road Media / Rosetta Books, ISBN: 9780795340031 (September, 2018), eBook, 476 KB (ca. 307 p.), $9.99.

Ridley Pearson: Blood of the Albatross (USA 1993)

From the Publisher:
Seattle sailing instructor by day, rock musician by night, Jay Becker leads a life others only dream about...until he meets his new sailing student. A German beauty named Marlene, she soon sparks trouble beyond Jay's darkest imagining: beyond the lies about her "employer"-a shadowy figure known only as Albatross...beyond the brutal deaths surfacing in her wake...Soon Becker will be drowning in a sea of stolen U.S. defense secrets and high treason, trapped by a cold savagery that will test-or break-his last mortal fiber...

Ridley Pearson: Blood of the Albatross. He was innocent, and untrained - now he had to save his country, or die... St. Martin's Press, ISBN: 0312951833 (February, 1993), 307 p., $5.99.

Ridley Pearson: Blood of the Albatross (USA ca. 1989)

From the Publisher:
With honed precision, Ridley Pearson laid bare readers' nerves with his masterpiece of suspense Undercurrents. That same go-for-the-throat intensity is here once more, in an electrifying novel of seduction, espio-nage and courage as stunningly brilliant as Marathon Man.

Seattle sailing instructor by day, rock musician by night, Jay Becker leads a life others only dream about ...until he meets his new sailing student. A German beauty named Marlene, she soon sparks trouble beyond Jay's darkest imagining: beyond the lies about her "employer" -- a shadowy figure known only as Albatross... beyond the brutal savagery that will test -- or break-his last mortal fiber...

Ridley Pearson: Blood of the Albatross. The brilliant suspense thriller by the bestselling author of Undercurrents. New York: St. Martin's Press, ca. 1989, ISBN: 0312906072, 307 p., $3.95.

Ridley Pearson: Blood of the Albatross (USA 1987)

From the Publisher:
She was the bait: Marlene, a beautiful German girl working for the man they called Albatross. Jay Becker was the quarry. Seattle rock musician by night, sailing instructor by day, Jay thought he had gotten lucky: alone with a pretty woman out on Puget Sound in an expensive sloop. But the only kind of luck he had was tough - because Jay Becker was chosen to be a crucial link in a chain of spies carrying the latest US defense weapon to the Soviets. And as soon as Albatross' deadly plan began, American Jay Becker would become a traitot and a marked man-a pawn in international espionage's lethal chess game of deceit and seduction... where one side wins when the other dies.

Ridley Pearson: Blood of the Albatross. He was innocent, and untrained - now he had to save his country, or die... St. Martin's Press, ISBN: 0312906072 (January, 1987), 307 p., $3.95.

Ridley Pearson: Blood of the Albatross (USA 1986)

From the Publisher:
Ridley Pearson's first novel, Never Look Back, was hailed by the critics as "a masterful debut, ... an adroitly crafted thriller, ... a break-neck action first novel," and more. The Los Angeles Times called him "a hot new thriller writer," and UPI said "one hopes Pearson will publish again and again." With his second novel, Blood of the Albatross, Pearson fulfills his promise and joins the ranks of America's top thriller writers.

It starts out so simply for Jay Becker - he's just an overworked, underpaid musician trying to earn some extra cash by giving sailing lessons on Puget Sound. But he is drawn into a whirlwind of events and characters that will change his life - and perhaps the future of his country - forever.

It begins when he meets the exotic, mysterious Marlene - a beauty with a dark secret who wants to hire Jay for what appears to be a simple sailing expedition. But once involved, he becomes a link in a deadly chain of events - manipulated by an international network of spies that will stop at nothing to get at the sensitive military secrets they want.

Blood of the Albatross is a supercharged novel of espionage and romance that puts one young, innocent man in the middle of a kaleidoscope of spy, counterspy; cross, double-cross - with the lives of himself, the woman he loves, and his best friend hanging in the balance. Like the best of Ludlum and Follett, Ridley Pearson will keep you fiercely turning pages as Jay fights to keep himself alive, to save the lives of the people he loves, and to protect the security of his country.

Ridley Pearson: Blood of the Albatross. St. Martin's Press, ISBN: 031208448X (June, 1986), 307 p., $14.95.