DRAGONSHIP

Kirk, an authority on sunken ships as Bill Knox, now uses this pseudonym to write a comparable Copenhagen-based story where marine insurance claims adjuster Laird is sent to investigate the firebombing of a Viking dragonship. It's owned by a Professor Vassen, an authority-collector who needs money to feed his avocation and runs a ring of Raiders. . . . Akvavit it isn't, but capable and steady it is.