Anthony Forrest (a pseudonym for writers Norman MacKenzie and Anthony Brown) wrote a series of books about Captain John Justice. They may appeal to both readers of spy novels and mysteries as well as to those who enjoy Historical Naval Fiction. Each of the books is based on an historical event . Captain Justice, who is an agent for the British admiralty, finds himself deep in the plots and actions surrounding historic events.

Norman MacKenzieNorman MacKenzie

Norman Ian MacKenzie (1921-2013) was a British journalist, academic and historian who helped in the founding of the Open University (OU) in the late 1960s.

He was born in New Cross, south-east London and attended Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham Boys' School, the local Grammar School. He won a Leverhulme scholarship to the London School of Economics (LSE), graduating with a first-class honours degree in government.

During WWII, as a student, MacKenzie joined the Home Guard and was a member of group trained to perform behind-the-lines sabotage and guerrilla activity in the event of a German invasion. Called up in 1942 he joined the RAF but was invalided out due to a stomach ulcer after 4 months.

MacKenzie worked as an assistant editor with the New Statesman magazine and made frequent trips behind the Iron Curtain throughout the 1950s and may have worked for MI6 gathering intelligence. H

Mackenzie lived in Lewes, East Sussex and was a fine painter of watercolour landscapes.

Antony BrownAntony Brown

Antony Victor Brown (1922–2001), born in Purley, Surrey, was an English journalist, newscaster, and author. During WWII he was a stage manager for ENSA, which entertained British military personnel.

He was mainly known as a newsreader for Independent Television News (ITN) between 1956 and 1965 and it fell to him to announce the assassination of the US president, John F. Kennedy.

AOS Naval Fiction

Captain Justice : 1804: Justice, a naval officer and an English gentleman, infiltrates Verdun
The Pandora Secret : 1804: Robert Fulton, the brilliant, unpredictable American inventor, has been spirited from France
A Balance of Dangers : 1807: Set at the siege of Copenhagen

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