Paul Garrison is the author of the critically acclaimed sea stories Fire And Ice (1998), Red Sky At Morning (2000), Buried At Sea (2002), Sea Hunter (2003), and The Ripple Effect (2004). Raised on the seafaring tales of his grandfather, who wandered the South Seas in the last of the square-rigged sailing vessels, Garrison writes suspense novels about the men and women who roam today's oceans on sailing boats and hi-tech catamarans, mega-yachts and attack submarines, tugboats and express liners. Paul Garrison is published by HarperCollins.