History as fiction

According to the BBC, the risk of piracy on the high seas is actually on the rise. "Figures for 2007 from the International Maritime Bureau show a 10% increase in the number of attacks... No pirates have been caught recently. But vigilance has seen the number of piracy attacks fall."

Rico says he wrote about this very issue in Skeleton Cay, available from Amazon (where you can go buy a copy). Nice when reality bumps up against your fiction...