Shanghai Escapist grabs the faint-of-heart right from the get-go and serves up an ultimatum: What would you do if caught in the same circumstances? From the opening scene, the reader is tossed into the maze of daily intrigue as it existed in 1960s-70
Fourth Book in the Southern Swallow Series finds the Academician Li K'ai-men in exile on Hai-nan Island. China has a new invasion threat. A showdown between ingenuity and technology explodes as the Sung Dynasty tries to preserve itself.
I have published five books to date and my sixth will be out in the summer of 2011. Three of these books are in a series about a young privateer sailor during the American Revolutionary War. The fourth comes out in 2011.
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I am a lifelong reader of maritime fiction and non-fiction. My writing has been influenced by C.S. Forester, Alexander Kent, Dudley Pope, Frederick Maryatt, Patrick O'Brian, and others. I was in the USN as an Aviation Electrician and a radio operator on a P2V Neptune. I have a degree in Industrial Design from University of Washington and retired from Boeing after thirty-five years as an engineer and manager. I am a member of Whidbey Island Writers Association. Living on Puget Sound, I enjoy cruising, crabbing, and fishing in my boat and I've been able to sail on the square-rigged ship Lady Washington several times as well as other sailing vessels.
Birth Place
New Castle, IN USA
Accomplishments
Senior Design Fellow (Boeing)
WIWA Contest Awards (8)
BFA University of Washington
Post graduate courses in writing
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