A spy swap in the Syrian desert, a pirate attack in the Sulu Sea, a devastating confrontation in the Balkans … Beirut 1963: Kim Philby defects to Moscow. As he boards his Soviet escape ship, a young ship’s officer passes him, unnoticed, on the quayside. Valdis Ozols...

Of all the dreadful stories that fill the news daily, the death of those thirty-nine young Vietnamese folk found in a trailer in the south of England recently, has stuck in my mind. Call them refugees, illegal immigrants, whatever, they were just seeking a better...

Good news! I have recently consolidated Sea of Gold, Dark Ocean and Black Reef into The Angus McKinnon Thrillers: A Trilogy. All three e-books are now available on Amazon as one competitively priced box-set. Here are the principal links: Amazon UK:...

Each book in my trilogy of Angus McKinnon thrillers owes a small part of its plot to the fate of three ships. I thought it may be of interest to present a few bare facts on each case, courtesy of Wikipedia whose terms and those of the Creative Commons Attribution...

I've sourced dozens of great photos, some taken by myself and others from other Pinterest pinners, that show the locations (everything from mountain ranges to Saharan sandstorms, beautiful homes to Buddhist monasteries); events and related "gear" (ships, cars,...