On the Beach | Peter Holmes
Lieutenant Commander Peter Holmes of the Australian Royal Navy is appointed as the liaison officer to U.S. Commander Dwight Towers at the beginning of the novel. Peter is a good and generous man, loyal to the navy and a dutiful, loving husband to his wife, Mary. He becomes friends with Towers and introduces him to Moira Davidson. In his duties as liaison officer. Holmes goes on two missions aboard the American nuclear submarine, the U.S.S. Scorpion.
Before the second and final voyage, Peter reluctantly demonstrates the use of the suicide drugs to Mary in case he...
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