Patrick Robinson

Patrick Robinson (born 21 January 1940) is a British novelist and newspaper columnist.His recent books are naval-based thrillers, each telling the story of a crisis facing the world in the early 21st century. His earlier works include four nonfiction books about thoroughbred horses; True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny, the story of the 1987 Oxford Boat Race mutiny (for which he, and co-author Dan Topolski won the inaugural William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 1989); and One Hundred Days, the biography of Admiral Sir Sandy Woodward.He has a home on Cape Cod.