Style Drift

Robert Fairchild #4

by Matthew McCleery

Robert Fairchild thought he had it all—until the U.S. government knocked on the door of his Park Avenue apartment.

Accused by the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of owning shares in a VLCC trading sanctioned Russian oil, the hedge fund manager turned shipowner watches his world capsize. His fortune. His reputation. His marriage. Even his freedom.

Exiled to a trailer park in the Florida Keys, Robert searches for a way out. But when his volatile partner—Norwegian shipping tycoon Coco Jacobsen—vanishes on his yacht, the crisis deepens.

Then a Boston private equity heiress disappears in Greece, along with her $200 million bulk carrier investment. Finding her—and the money—might be Robert’s last shot at redemption.

Darkly comic and commercially relevant, Style Drift sheds light on the business of shipowning, the most important yet least known industry in the world, in which larger-than-life swashbucklers and scallywags still dominate the seas as they have for millennia.

Genres: Fiction

188 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 10, 2025

About the author

Matt McCleery is the President of Marine Money and Managing Director of Blue Sea Capital, Inc. where he advises shipowners and investors on ship financing and investment transactions. He can be reached at mmccleery@marinemoney.com.

Reviews

[Max · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a treat to get a 4th installment of the Shipping man.