Intro
Justin Scott is another author that seemed to stop writing as soon as I "discovered" him. [This is turning out to be a fairly typical situation for me.] As far as I can gather he wrote seventeen books from the early 1970s to the late 1990s. Quite a few of his books have a nautical theme, such as The Shipkiller and Normandie Triangle, but he has also written a mafia thriller, a book set in revolutionary Russia and most recently a series of detective thrillers set in New England.
At the end of the 1990s he switched back to writing nautical adventures under the name Paul Garrison.
click here for a list of the books
Updates
27 December 2006
Wow. I'm not exactly breaking my neck with updates to this page! Anyhoo, last night I noticed that the official Paul Garrison page is now the Justin Scott/Paul Garrison page. I guess that makes it official. On the site you can find a piece about why his various pen names came about, plus news of a new Ben Abbont mystery called McMansion.
I've also taken the opportunity to do a little bit of work on this page. I've added a proper logo plus some cover images as well as brief descriptions of the book contents.
21 October 2004
I just got an email today from Rohan with the following nugget of information...
"Justin Scott just visited Singapore today and it came to the news that Paul Garrison [writer of sea thrillers like "Fire and Ice" and "Sea Hunter". ] was actually a pen name Justin Scott used and that Paul Garrison does not exist. Paul Garrison is none other than Justin Scott himself."
I have to say a few years I had read Garrison's enjoyable Fire and Ice and felt strongly that it was an unoffical "sequel" to Scott's The Shipkiller. I also noted that Scott's last book was 1997 and Garrison's first was 1998. So it's nice to have my suspicion confirmed!
You can find an official "Paul Garrison" website at www.seastoriesbypaulgarrison.com.
A full list of his five novels follows:
- Fire And Ice (1998)
- Red Sky At Morning (2000)
- Buried At Sea (2002)
- Sea Hunter (2003)
- The Ripple Effect (2004)