Shipkiller-C [Mass Market Paperback]

Justin Scott (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Fawcett (October 12, 1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0449242226
• ISBN-13: 978-0449242223
• Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 1.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,614,388 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Justin Scott has written twenty-four thrillers, historicals, and mystery novels, including The Shipkiller and Normandie Triangle. With many books set at sea, he has been called "the Dick Francis of yachting."

He created the Ben Abbott detective series (HardScape, StoneDust, FrostLine, McMansion and Mausoleum), and was twice nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award by the Mystery Writers of America.

His main pen name is Paul Garrison under which he has written five modern sea thrillers including Red Sky At Morning, Sea Hunter, and The Ripple Effect.

The Wrecker, a collaboration with Clive Cussler is being published Fall of 2009. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, filmmaker Amber Edwards.

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars A rare sailing thriller, November 14, 2006

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Michael T Kennedy (Lake Arrowhead, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Shipkiller-C (Mass Market Paperback)

This book has been out of print for years but I have a precious copy. There are very few good sailing novels; I can count them on one hand. This is one, maybe the best. The story is set in 1978 and there are a few dated political threads to the story. The principle character is a doctor who has invented a digital thermometer and, with the money he has earned from royalties, decides to take a year off and cruise with his wife aboard their ketch. They cross to England where the sailboat is run down by a monster tanker and his wife is lost. He tries to get the law to punish the tanker as it was moving far too fast for the foggy conditions and not keeping a watch. Because it is so huge and the owners so powerful, he finds admiralty law is helpless. He decides to punish the ship himself. The action builds to a tremendous climax. The sailing is all absolutely authentic and every detail is accurate. I have sailed across oceans and will vouch for it. You will not put it down once it starts to build toward the climax.

5.0 out of 5 stars The Ship Killer by Justin Scott, October 29, 2011

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Ken "Ken" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shipkiller-C (Mass Market Paperback)

If you sail, or just love sea adventure, by all means read The Ship Killer. Author Justin Scott knows his boats and the sea; you can almost smell the salt.

But beyond just sailing, this is a fine story of one man's dedication of his life to settling the score with the ship that ran his sailboat down, killed his wife, and left him to die at sea. If you read this story, you'll find yourself re-reading it periodically as I do. Even though it's just one book, not a series, I consider it on a par with the Hornblower saga.

Unhappily, I've found none of Scott's other books worth recommending.