title: Sea Smoke: Essays Set Down At The Shore
author: Terrence McCarthy
description: Terrence McCarthy is a former newspaper reporter, ad agency creative director and psychiatric counselor. The author of seven books, McCarthy is an Air Force veteran who lives in North Carolina.
zlib_text: **SMOKE ON THE WATER**
  
  A NOVEL BY
  
  JON MAY
  
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  Published by Sixth Element Publishing
  
  Arthur Robinson House
  
  13-14 The Green
  
  Billingham TS23 1EU
  
  Tel: 01642 360253
  
  [_www.6epublishing.net_](http://www.6epublishing.net)
  
  © Jon May 2018
  
  Jon May asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
  
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  _Dedicated to the lost fishermen of the Hull and Grimsby fleet who lost their
  lives in the Arctic grounds during the two hundred years of operation of the
  northern fishing fleet._
  
    
  
  _“A wise ruler may forgive the treachery of an enemy, he may even turn it to
  his advantage, but he must never overlook, or forgive, betrayal by a friend.”_
  
  Quote attributed to Niccolo Machiavelli
  
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  MARITIME FORECAST, SEA AREA SOUTH EAST ICELAND SEPT 11TH 1972 AT 2400 GMT.
  WIND FORCE SIX TO SEVEN - SOUTH BY SOUTH WEST - GUSTING EIGHT AT TIMES.
  MODERATING LATER. VISIBILITY FAIR TO POOR WITH LIGHT ICING, SMOKE ON THE WATER
  
  This is a work of fiction, but many of the people actually exist