The Ditch

About the Book

Twice every year, Olympiad Cruises’ flagship Mercury steams through the Panama Canal, transitioning between summer itineraries sailing to Hawaii or Alaska from San Francisco, and wintering in Caribbean ports sailing from Ft Lauderdale.

Although this Fall’s eastbound repositioning voyage should be the vacation of a lifetime for Mercury’s aging guest complement, and a refreshing change for her crew, they will all suffer an unprecedented betrayal that creates an International crisis.

Combining first-hand description of crew life aboard a modern-day cruise vessel with an action-driven plot based on genuine CIA threat assessments, The Ditch is sure to capture the imagination and open the eyes of all readers – from those who want a peek behind the crew doors, to those who call these corridors home, to others who love intense action and a killer chase.

About the Author

P.A.Cousins spent over eight years at sea, working for some of today’s largest cruise lines, logging millions of nautical miles and visiting almost every cruise ship port from the Malacca Strait east to the Aegean Sea.

Moving up through the staff ranks until becoming a department head in 2003, he spent his time on the Seas traveling, exploring and learning more about not only the World in general, but himself in particular.

Now with his feet back home on solid ground in his native Canada, he relives his years of cruise experiences by blending memory with fiction, entertaining readers of all ages with his first novel, The Ditch.

Almost ten years after scribbling down scattered initial concepts of this novel on a mess hall napkin, Mr Cousins can finally add Author to a creative resume that also includes Screenwriter, Poet and Composer.