Piracy on the high seas has returned after a lapse of three hundred years. The number of pirate attacks has risen dramatically since then. Modern piracy ranges from petty larceny at sea, to highly organized syndicates pirating ships for multi-million-dollar cargoes. One of the most sophisticated and dangerous form of piracy is carried out by syndicates in South East Asia. This corporate-style organization of the syndicates is impressive. Ships can be hijacked to order. Once a ship has been targeted, the crew's fate hangs in the balance. KC Wong of the Singapore Marine Police, is designated...

A mysterious stranger walks out of the vast Empty Quarter of the Arabian Desert, to wreak havoc on the civilized world. The desert tribes know him as, Al Kunja, after the Omani dagger, a wickedly curved double-edged crescent of steel. Al Kunja, leader of a highly organized group of terrorists, has sworn to drive the infidels from the ancient lands of Arabia. Al Kunja's armed camp is an oasis hidden deep in the desert from where he masterminds devilish schemes to disrupt shipping East of Suez, and cut off vital oil supplies to the West. An attack on the oil pipelines in the Saudi Desert is...

The leading tenor is murdered on the first night of Giacomo Puccini's 'La Boheme' at the Teatro Carlo Felice Opera House in Genoa, Italy. Inspector Marcus Monticello and assistant Lieutenant Gabriella de Firenze set out to bring the culprit to justice. Their investigation takes on a wider dimension when they uncover a conspiracy where murder and contract killing are a way of life to men who will stop at nothing to accumulate large sums of money by criminal activities. One man holds the key to unlock the secrets behind a spate of killings. The search for this man takes them into Genoa's Old...

Orphaned in 17th century Whitby, ten years old Carlyle sets off to London to seek his fortune, but is kidnapped by a pirate press gang along with five other street urchins to sail on the 'Black Prince' and learn the pirate ways under the leadership of the tyrannical Black Bert. On an epic voyage to the West Indies, he makes friends with another orphan called Woody and a wounded albatross he named Arnie. Carlyle will need all the skills acquired on his late father's fishing boat to survive life on a pirate ship. A mutiny on the 'Black Prince' left many dead, as Black Bert struggled to assert...

J.R.Euen's collection of short stories takes the reader from the streets of New York to the jungles of Africa. A steamship on Uganda's Lake Albert, a "floating Hotel," in the grand style, described by Ernest Hemingway as the "magnificence on water." The strange case of the man in the beekeeper's hat; a snake charmer in New York; a confidence trickster in Manila; a witch doctor in West Africa and a war veteran in London. These are some of the short stories in the collection.

The novel is written in the first person, fiction based on the author's experience as a shipping fraud and casualty investigator for the insurance world. It takes the reader behind the scenes to tell the real story. You enter a world of natural and man-made catastrophes. Experience what it's like to be trapped on a burning tanker loaded with 400,000 tons of highly inflammable crude oil. What happens when a ship runs aground in thick fog. Imagine when lights failed, the ship in danger of breaking up. Experience being aboard a ferry carrying sheep across the Bass Straits when it capsizes. Swept...

'PICKING UP THE PIECES' This is the second book in 'The Casualty List' triology by J.R.Euen. In J.R.Euen's second novel in 'The Casualty List' triology, the main character, Jim Stewart, finds himself in unusual, sometime dangerous situations, in diverse parts of the world when investigating shipping disasters. A Clyde Puffer lying aground in Loch Erisort in the Outer Hebrides is in danger of breaking up, but encounters more danger when it is refloated in dense fog... An unexploded Exocet missile in the cargo tank of a fully loaded oil tanker in the Persian Gulf calls for a low teck solution...

J.R.Euen' third fiction novel in 'The Casualty List' series is set in South East Asia. A journey in a small airplane across North Sumatra's mountain range of impenetrable jungle terrain, through dense jungle and fast flowing rivers in a Willys Jeep, far from civilisation, to reach a palm oil plantation on the east coast where a WW2 landing craft has run aground. In the jungles of Malaysia an ancient tin dredge cleaved a deep channel through the lush green jungle to extract the precious metal, moving its muddy pond along with it, obliterating everything in its path. Off the east coast of Java...