Terror at Sea brings to real life all the terror of an attack by pirates armed with rocket-launchers and automatic machine-guns. It tells of disappearing phantom ships and of a cigarette fraud run by a fraudster from New Jersey, the story of MV Estonia and many other disasters at sea. As it enters the mysterious world of the Triads, some of the most bloody, cunning and lucrative attacks, frauds and schemes of the past twenty years are brought to the page in an exciting and refreshing way.

Born in Glasgow, Douglas Stewart spent his childhood in Kent, and attended Cranbrook School before reading Law at Durham University. Following articles of clerkshop in London, he became a solicitor in the West Country, remaining there for about fifteen years before returning to London in 1984. He is also a successful and widely-read author. In the mid 1970s, Douglas started writing the novels to counteract the boredom of the Christmas television schedules, originally using the pen name Cameron Ross. He now uses his own name and has adapted a number of his novels and short stories for film and television and splits his time between Las Vegas and Isle of Man.