O’Neil’s newest romantic adventure of his dynamic young team of Donny Weston and Abby Marshall, now fully accredited agents of British Intelligence and barristers-in-training, who, on their way to park their beloved boat Swallow in Malta to be ready for the summer, encounter the schooner Speedwell at La Rochelle, where problems arise for Commander Will and his wife Mary Pleasance. Discovering, to their surprise, a serious romantic attraction, Tom Hardy and Lotte Compton also from the Speedwell join forces with Donny and Abby to oppose the threats to the Commander. From Valetta the four follow up the threat, only to find themselves faced with a plot to use a famous mercenary in an assassination that will rock the foundations of the Euro community, and the western world. Backed by Russia, a rogue CIA operative has set things up for a public shooting at a Euro summit. The four foil the plot and the assassination fails, but the CIA agent, is credited with foiling the coup and promoted. He wants revenge, and comes after the four. The outcome is decided in a action-packed shoot-out in high speed boats in the cold waters of the Thames estuary. A native of the United Kingdom, artist and photographer David O'Neil started writing seriously with a series of Highland guide books. His boyhood ambitions were to fly an airplane, and sail a boat. As a boy he and his family were bombed out of their home in London. He learned to fly with the Royal Air Force during his National Service. He started sailing boats while serving in the Colonial Police, in Nyasaland (Malawi). He spent 8 years there, before returning to UK. Since then he lived in southern England where he became a management consultant, for over twenty years. He returned to live in Scotland in 1980, and became a tour guide in1986. He started writing in 2006, the first guide book being published in 2007. A further two have been published since He started writing fiction in 2007 and has now written five full length novels. A student of history and formerly military, O'Neil has been compared favorably with the UK's Ian Fleming and is frequently referred to as the "W.E.B. Griffin of the United Kingdom" due in a large part to his insightful recounting of exciting military exploits and his unique ability to develop credible characters.