Born in Cape Town and educated at Selborne College in East London, South Africa, I began writing as a technical author and lecturer. It took a while to adjust from that to writing fiction, but its now settled and enjoyable. I retired from a very fulfilling career as firefighter after thirty-six years of soot, heat, blood, sweat, and laughter and indulged myself with starting to write both scifi and historical stories. I was a Licensed Minister in the Church of England and have three adult children of who make me enormously proud and three granddaughters who are absolute darlings.
My other books include A Baltic Affair, Limehouse Boys, Ned Farrier Master Mariner -- Call of the Cape, Harry Heron: Into the Unknown, and four more in the Harry Heron series, a collection of books centered on a trio of shipmates plucked from the gundeck of HMS Spartan during the Napoleonic Wars and thrust into an unknown future. To these I've added a prequel and a sequel to the prequel!
My favourite authors include Douglas Reeman/Alexander Kent, C S Forrester, Sir Terry Pratchett, John Winton, Isaac Asimov, Patrick O'Brien, and Robert A Heinlein.
Harry Heron: Midshipman's Journey
By: Patrick G. Cox
When young Harry Nelson Heron sets out to become a naval officer with his boyhood friend and companion, Ferghal O'Connor, neither of them can imagine what lays in store. Born in a troubled Ireland in 1789, Harry is the youngest son of Major James Heron, now a gentleman farmer in County Down, his road to London and, he hopes, a ship, is filled with adventure, but it's a good preparation for life as a junior midshipman first aboard the newly repaired HMS Bellerophon, and then aboard the 74-gun HMS Spartan as she voyages to Australia with a convoy of convict ships. In the vein of Horatio Hornblower, Patrick Cox weaves an exciting, authentic tale of Henry (Harry) Nelson-Heron, a young midsh...
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Harry Heron: Hope Transcends
By: Patrick G. Cox
In Harry Heron: Hope Transcends, the sixth and final book in the series, Harry faces insurmountable hurdles in his quest to defeat his enemies and reunite with Mary, the love of his life and his bride to be. Marooned on an alien planet to die a slow, miserable death along with a few of his crew members, he rises to the challenge as their Commander and proves that his knowledge, skill, fortitude and determination are enough to outwit their enemies. Meanwhile, his best friend, Commander Ferghal O’Connor, and his fellow officers of the NECS Fleet are working behind the scenes to bring down the Charonians and their human political component. Through it all, Harry’s love for Mary, and her pat...
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Harry Heron: Awakening Threat
By: Patrick G. Cox
When the exploration ship Beagle encounters an alien race on the outer edges of the galatic arm, humanity and all its colony worlds are threatened by the Niburu, and ancient and predatory spacefaring species. Harry and Ferghal lead their fleet of space corvettes in the battle against the awakening threat of the Niburu using technology adapted from the Siddhiche. It is a desperate and at times onesided fight to the death. There are three things you need to know about Harry Heron and Ferghal O'Connor: *Born in the late 1700s, they catapulted through time and space from the gun deck of the HMS Spartan during a sea fight with the French in 1804 to the starship NECS Vanguard in 2204. *Best friend...
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Harry Heron: Savage Fugitive
By: Patrick G. Cox
In Harry Heron: Savage Fugitive, Book Four of the Harry Heron Series, Harry and Ferghal lead a band of fugitives of the Fleet in a battle against the Consortium on Planet Lycania inhabited by the very canine-like Canids.There are three things you need to know about Harry Heron and Ferghal O'Connor: *Born in the late 1700s, they catapulted through time and space from the gun deck of the HMS Spartan during a sea fight with the French in 1804 to the starship NECS Vanguard in 2204. *Best friends since their boyhood in Ireland, they're smart, savvy, and fearless, as loyal to each other as they are to the British Royal Navy and the North European Confederation Fleet. *A juggernaut of wits, wit, an...
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Harry Heron: No Quarter
By: Patrick G. Cox
In Harry Heron: No Quarter, Book Three of the Harry Heron Series, Harry and his best friend Ferghal O'Connor are cadets at Fleet College, eager to master their skills in preparation for commissioning to a ship. They've barely stepped foot on campus when they realize they’re targeted and sabotaged at every turn, but this doesn't stop them from exuberant participation in the Sailing Regatta, the Gun Run, and the usual flirtations and hijinks of college life. Meanwhile, the Consortium, supporting the Johnstone Group, does everything in its power to keep them from testifying at an enquiry to expose Johnstone's questionable research practices that nearly killed Harry in their secret laboratory ...
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Harry Heron: Into the Unknown
By: Patrick G. Cox
A freak accident on board the HMS Spartan during a sea battle with the French navy in 1804 catapults Midshipman Harry Heron and his shipmates Ferghal O'Connor and Danny Gunn four hundred years into the future, landing them on the NECS Vanguard, flagship of the World Treaty Organisation Fleet. While Captain Blackwood and Major Heron sort out the mystery and determine whether the young men are alive or dead, Harry and his friends are faced with the challenge of learning new roles aboard a spaceship. Just as they have found their footing in this new Fleet in a rescue mission on the planet Pangaea, they are kidnapped by a Research organisation and subjected to a range of very unethical tests and...
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Captain James Heron First Into The Fray
By: Patrick G. Cox
The year is 2202, and the recently widowed Captain James Heron is appointed to stand by his next command, the starship NECS Vanguard, while she is being built. He and his team soon discover that they are battling the Consortium, a shadowy corporate group that seeks to steal the specs for the ship’s new super weapon. The Consortium hires the Pantheon, a mysterious espionage agency, to do their dirty work as they lay plans to take down the Fleet and gain supreme power on an intergalactic scale. When Pantheon Agent Bast and her team kidnap Felicity Rowanberg, a Fleet agent and friend of the Captain, this clash of titans becomes personal. Bast is an expert in bio-disguise and evades several tr...
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Conflict in Shadow
By: Patrick G. Cox
Captain Felicity Roberts commands a Q-Ship in 2206. Outwardly a large freight liner, the Mancunian’s primary function is intelligence gathering. With the war between the Intercorporate Consortium and the World Treaty Council intensifying and the Consortium’s hostile seizure of colony worlds, her role is critical.Nor is the Consortium the only enemy; the Pantheon, an organisation that provides very efficient assassins, is at work in support of the Consortium and Fleet Security want them stopped. Felicity Roberts has the satisfaction of taking down the assassin calling himself Heimdall all while ensuring the flow of intel her crew are gathering reaches the right eyes and ears.Captain Rober...
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