Novels of the sea and crime Click on the covers to find out more, or to buy Boomcrack tells the story of three ex-navy men who discover a drug smuggling gang operating off the south of England using stolen yachts. The fast action moves from the Solent to Jamaica, Bogota and Majorca. There are murders, piracy, smuggling and sea chases before everything is finally resolved. Return to contents page Flotilla is the sequel to Boomcrack. A retired Admiral sailing his yacht to Corfu, joins up with a beautiful teacher on a flotilla holiday in the Ionian to outwit an Albanian gang who murder illegal emigrants. There is comedy too, from a group of incompetent pensioners attemping a kidnap on the island of Ithaca. by Christopher Jarman