Marcus Palliser (1949-2002) was a successful executive who threw off the corporate shackles for a life of adventure funded by a second career as a writer. He was director of communications at a big computer corporation and left to live on a small yacht and sail the Mediterranean before crossing the Atlantic single-handed and then returning to Britain to write a series of historical seafaring novels, the adventures of Matthew Stalbone Loftus.
AOS Naval Fiction
Series: Matthew Stalbone Loftus
Matthew's Prize : Loftus leaves Whitby aboard ship, risks his life saving another and ends up on a Dutch trader to the Indies
Devil of a Fix : 1703: Loftus, captain of the Cornelius is forced into a plundering raid by the wily privateer, Sir Thomas Filligrew.
To the Bitter End : 1708: Matthew sails in a rescue mission to Hudson's bay. But the true agenda is to foil the French.