Author Description

A one-off novel written in pre-PC Britain of 1988 by shipping salesman and business consultant, Al Garland (deceased 1994), takes the reader into the seedy world of the post-war shipping industry, where lies, cheating, price-fixing, bribery, corruption, blackmail, murder, suicide and adultery are abound - and barely any bad language! Peter Byatt is an ambitious young man who sets out to reach the top in business. Set in Liverpool and taking in areas of London and New York this is a book you'll find hard to put down.