About the Author

The creator of James Bond, Ian Fleming once said of the author ‘Geoffrey Jenkins has the supreme gift of orginality…. A Twist of Sand is a literate, imaginative first novel in the tradition of high and original adventure’.’In the highest tradition of the Buchan-Household-Hammond Innes school…….. A thundering good yarn’, were Ian Fleming’s remarks for A Grue of Ice,while the Observer described The River of Diamonds ‘A top-class adventure story about the efforts of a diamond-hunting expedition to find a fabulous hoard on the sea-bed of South -West Africa’ (Namibia).

The Manchester Evening News described Hunter Killer as a thriller to grip your attention, full of unpredictable twists and turns and packed with action…… Since the author is the accomplished Geoffrey Jenkins, all you have to do is perch uncomfortably on the edge of your chair, prepare to bite your nails, and enjoy every minute of it.

Geoffrey Jenkins was born in 1920 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa and educated in the old Transvaal, where he wrote his first book-a legal history-at the age of seventeen. After leaving school he worked as a sub-editor in Zimbabwe, later becoming a newspaperman in both Britain and South Africa. He combined a most successful career in journalism with a life-long interest in the sea, and his knowledge of ships and sailing has provided the background to many of his novels.

His first novel, A Twist of Sand, was published in 1959 and immediately became a bestseller; it was later filmed. Eight more most successful novels followed having sold over five million copies in twenty-three different languages.Geoffrey Jenkins extraordinary gift for the written word, is truly one a the great writers of all time, on par with Alister McClean, Hammond Innes and Clive Cussler and other world class writers of adventure and suspense. Brilliant!

His novel Scend of the Sea was the inspiration for Emlyn’s Brown’s lifelong search for the legendary lost British steamship SS Waratah off the Transkei Wild Coast.