Dick Allan
Dick Allan is a qualified doctor and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. After a long career in research for the Services he retired from his final post as Director of the Army Personnel Research Establishment at Farnborough in 1995. A lifelong sailor he set off on a 28,000-mile voyage around the world in his yacht, 'Greylag'. Travelling through Indonesia and the infamous South China Sea, he and his crew worried about being attacked by pirates. They visited Poto Paddu, a small cove in...See more
Dick Allan is a qualified doctor and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. After a long career in research for the Services he retired from his final post as Director of the Army Personnel Research Establishment at Farnborough in 1995. A lifelong sailor he set off on a 28,000-mile voyage around the world in his yacht, 'Greylag'. Travelling through Indonesia and the infamous South China Sea, he and his crew worried about being attacked by pirates. They visited Poto Paddu, a small cove in Sumbawa. In those idyllic surroundings the inspiration for this story developed - it is his idea of the nightmare of piracy coming true.Dick has two grown-up children and lives with his wife, Janet, in Farnham, Hampshire. See less
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