Marcus Palliser 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 |
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| Series: Matthew Stalbone Loftus | ||
| Year | Book | Comment |
| Matthew's Prize | Loftus leaves Whitby aboard ship, risks his life saving another and ends up on a Dutch trader to the Indies | |
| 1703 | Devil of a Fix | Loftus, captain of the Cornelius is forced into a plundering raid by the wily privateer, Sir Thomas Filligrew. |
| 1708 | To the Bitter End | Matthew sails in a rescue mission to Hudson's bay. But the true agenda is to foil the French. |