Smith, Jesse

Jesse Smith was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. On leaving school at 17 he attended Nautical College and at 18 went to sea as a navigation cadet. Since then he has served on all types of ships and traveled to almost every country in the world having a port. He worked ashore for several years as a Marine Consultant but for the last twenty years, and between writing novels, he has been back at sea as a Ship Master on mammoth container ships. He is married and lives in Durban, South Africa.