Born in Cape Town and educated at Selborne College in East London, South Africa, Patrick G. Cox is a published technical author and lecturer, and a retired firefighter after thirty-six years of soot, heat, blood, sweat, and laughter. He is a Licensed Minister in the Church of England and has three adult children and three granddaughters of whom he is enormously proud. Cox is the author of A Baltic Affair, Limehouse Boys, Ned Farrier Master Mariner: Call of the Cape, Magnus Patricius and Harry Heron Series, including two prequels, Harry Heron: Midshipman's Journey and Captain James Heron; First Into The Fray. The Harry Heron Series includes five titles all centered on a trio of shipmates plucked from the HMS Spartan during the Napoleonic Wars and thrust into an unknown future.