Book 2 : Aidan Grifford Sailing Adventure Series Lieutenant Aidan Grifford, RN, is on his final patrol as Executive Officer of the Royal Australian Navy patrol boat HMAS Gladstone. The ship is tasked to find a vessel suspected of piracy and illegal smuggling activities in the Coral Sea between Townsville and Cape York, but the pursuit is ultimately fruitless, and it’s not how Aidan wanted to end his two-year exchange with the RAN. However, once he’s out of uniform and off the naval base, the pirates’ activities are no longer his problem … or so he thought. With his future in the Royal Navy under a cloud, Aidan applies to transfer permanently to the RAN. The transfer will take time, but he likes the carefree Australian lifestyle and life in Cairns. Crewing on a friend’s sports boat leads to a job skippering a charter boat ... and more encounters with the pirates. Then Aidan is offered a dream job skippering Maverick, a luxury 72-foot charter yacht that takes tourists to remote islands and coral reefs on the Great Barrier Reef, but when the pirate threat escalates, he is forced to put his life on the line to save Maverick and stop the pirates.