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Patrick Robinson (author) Patrick Robinson (author) Patrick Robinson (21 January 1940) is a British novelist and newspaper columnist living in Cotuit, Massachusetts. 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; "", 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. Stand-alone Novels Admiral Arnold Morgan Navy Seal Lt. Commander Mack