FRAUD ON THE HIGH SEAS

About the Book

Harry McDowell is a successful London businessman. Aged 36, he’s a partner in a marine insurance company. Married with a beautiful wife, and a lovely young daughter, Harry enjoys the good life. Perhaps too much! A few too many drinks, a sexual adventure and a gambling addiction send him on a downward spiral. A disastrous sequence of events leads him to the cusp of financial ruin.

Harry is offered a lifeline which involves illegal business dealings. When a major problem occurs, Harry is implicated and loses his job and family.

Self-exiled with an old friend in Florida he strives to make sense of it all. Depressed, unhappy and lonely, he fi nally determines to strike back.

His quest takes him to London and Amsterdam, to Scotland, Athens and Hong Kong as he tries to unravel the mystery and web of deceit and intrigue and caused his downfall

About the Author

Tony Gwinnell, an Englishman worked for many years in Lloyd’s of London before moving to the United States. His marine and oil and gas insurance career led him to live and work in England, Bermuda, Spain, Singapore, Australia and various cities in the U.S. During his military service he was stationed in Hong Kong. Married to wife Susan with one daughter he is now retired and lives in Houston,. Texas, and spends his time painting, writing and traveling. Fraud on the High Seas is his first novel. This edition is actually a rewrite, the original publication was in 2003. Since then he has written four other novels.