Terror at Sea

Terror at Sea brings to real life all the terror of an attack by pirates armed with rocket-launchers and automatic machine-guns. It tells of disappearing phantom ships and of a cigarette scam run by a fraudster from New Jersey, the story of MV Estonia and many other disasters at sea. As it enters the mysterious world of the Triads, some of the most bloody, cunning and lucrative attacks, frauds and schemes of the past twenty years are brought to the page in an exciting and refreshing way.

“Even as you read these lines, somewhere on the high seas mariners are being attacked by armed pirates, their faces masked, their weapons deadly. Their victims may be murdered, tortured, seized as hostages, or simply dumped overboard. Today, piracy is a multibillion dollar business. A recent worrying trend, bringing the threat closer to home, is the use of such ill-gotten gains to fund international terrorism. International law enforcement, despite a welcome increased will to combat crime at sea, has struggled to be effective in prevention and punishment.”

Douglas Stewart of Las Vegas, CA and Isle of Man

Born in Glasgow, Douglas Stewart spent his childhood in Kent, and attended Cranbrook School before reading Law at Durham University. Following articles of clerkshop in London, he became a solicitor in the West Country, remaining there for about fifteen years before returning to London in 1984. He is also a successful and widely-read author. In the mid 1970s, Douglas started writing the novels to counteract the boredom of the Christmas television schedules, originally using the pen name Cameron Ross. He now uses his own name and has adapted a number of his novels and short stories for film and television and splits his time between Las Vegas and Isle of Man.