Location: United Kingdom
Member Since: May 16, 2011

James Cassaday


Biography

Since leaving school in 1949, James Cassaday has followed a varied career embracing the Merchant Navy, the Royal Air Force (Marine Craft Section), and Fire Services in Liverpool and Guernsey. Along the way he was awarded the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society Award for saving life; and the Queen’s Fire Service Medal for distinguished service.

James now lives in retirement with his wife, Mary, on the south coast of Guernsey, where an earlier love of sailing has largely given way to gardening; but the sea is always in view, and it reflects in his style of writing. He also writes knowingly, and vividly, when it comes to describing an outbreak of fire.

Books

St Elmo's Fire    by James Cassaday
Price: $4.99 USD. 76430 words. Published on July 28, 2011. Fiction.
Some people are lucky and others are not, but a sighting of St Elmo's Fire can bring good luck or bad. Ex-seaman, Jack Druce, joins the Liverpool Fire Brigade back in the 1950's and comes to rue the day he didn't look away when first he glimpsed this phenomenon when at sea. His luck goes from bad to worse as he agrees to join a renegade group of ex-firemen who intend to steal a priceless painting.
Rough Sea Justice    by James Cassaday
Price: $4.99 USD. 73510 words. Published on June 3, 2011. Fiction.
All of us have experienced feelings of frustration, even anger, when Law Courts find the victims of robbery or assault to be guilty of using excessive force in defending themselves or their property. Now read one fictional, but possible case featured in Rough Sea Justice,and smile (at times) as the author introduces the trials and tribulations of one such victim.......
Bailiwick Gold    by James Cassaday
Price: $4.99 USD. 100720 words. Published on May 16, 2011. Fiction.
Soon after the Channel Islands were liberated following five years of occupation during World War II, rumours of hidden loot (spoils of war) began to circulate. During subsequent years these were fuelled by stories concerning German tourists, many still of military bearing, who were reportedly seen probing in hedgerows and other odd locations in and around the Bailiwick of Guernsey.

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