Raider of The Scottish Coast

Which serves a Navy better? Tradition and hierarchy, or innovation and merit?

It is 1775 and the American Revolution has begun. In England, the Royal Navy has one eye on the rebellious colonials and the other on its traditional enemy, the French. Two teenagers - Jaco Jacinto from Charleston, SC and Darren Smythe from Gosport, England - become midshipmen in their respective navies. Jacinto wants to help his countrymen win their freedom. Smythe has wanted to be a naval officer since he was a boy. From blockaded harbours and the cold northern waters off Nova Scotia and Scotland, to the islands of the Bahamas and Nassau, they serve with great leaders and bad ones through battles, politics and the school of naval hard knocks. Jacinto and Smythe are mortal enemies, but when they meet they become friends, even though they know they will be called again to battle one another.

"This is Marc Liebman's first foray into the age of sail, and what a densely packed, rattling yarn he has produced... The twists and turns of the breathless plot see the two main protagonists cross again and again in a story that never lets up its pace." Philip Allan, author of the award-winning Alexander Clay series about the Royal Navy during the Age of Sail.

Marc Liebman is a retired U.S. Navy Captain and Naval Aviator who is a combat veteran of Vietnam, the tanker wars of the 1980s and Desert Shield/Desert Storm. He retired as a Captain after twenty-four years in the Navy and a military career that took him all over the world. Marc has worked with the armed forces of Australia, Canada, Japan, Thailand, Republic of Korea, the Philippines and the U.K. He has just under 6,000 hours of pilot-in-command/co-pilot flight time in a variety of tactical military, civilian fixed and rotary wing aircraft. In the business world, he has been the CEO of an aerospace and defense manufacturing firm, an associate editor of a national magazine and a copywriter for an advertising agency as well as a senior executive of a global business process management firm. He retired from the business world in 2015 to become a full-time author. Marc has four other novels in print. Big Mother 40 is loosely based on his experiences flying helicopters on combat search and rescue and special operations missions during the Vietnam War. In June 2013, the readers of books bought on Amazon ranked it as one of the top 100 war novels. In Render Harmless, terrorists are creating the West German government's worst political nightmare in 1976, thirty-one years after the Holocaust ended and four years after the Munich Olympics massacre. Nazis who want to create a fourth Reich are working with terrorists supported by Fatah, Stasi and the KGB; they have published a manifesto that reads as if it was written by Adolf Hitler. Cherubs 2 is a novel about a young Naval Officer who is learning the difference between courage and cowardice as he learns how to be a leader. The book takes place in 1970 during the Vietnam War. Forgotten is the story about six American POWs who didn't come at the end of the Vietnam War. They're being held captive by a drug dealer who wants to ransom them to the U.S. Government. After they are rescued and brought back to the U.S., two people don't want them alive. One is a CIA field agent who's afraid his prior activities will send him to jail and the other is a former POW who knows that one of the FORGOTTEN will send him to the hangman for being a traitor. Marc lives in Savannah, Texas with his wife of 47+ years and three poodles. They have two children and spend a lot of time visiting his four grand-children when they are not traveling in their RV.