Israeli and American attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities have prompted the Iranian government to threaten to close the Straits of Hormuz.

Well, they tried that before in the late 1980s and by sheer chance I published my latest novel Silkworm! just last month, and it deals with exactly those events. It’s a dramatised account of four days during which a british destroyer escorts tankers through the Straits, battling Iranian frigates, gunboats, shore-based missiles and mines. I felt qualified to write on this subject because I was the operations officer on just such a destoyer in the Spring of 1988, at the very height of the Gulf Tanker war. In my humble opinion Silkworm! is well worth reading to gain an impression of what western navies might be up against if Iran makes good on its threats. It’s a great novel too!

Silkworm! is available from Amazon in Kindle, Kindle Unlimited and Paperback.