Nothing Really Changes in International Affairs

Iran claims to have closed the Straits of Hormuz as America decimates the Iranian navy.

Well, the Iranians tried that before in the late 1980s. By sheer chance I published my novel Silkworm! last year, and it deals with exactly those events. It’s a dramatized 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 destroyer 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 they need to operate in the Gulf again. It’s a great novel too!

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