Robert W. Mackay attended UBC and spent ten years in the Canadian navy with service in destroyers and submarines. He subsequently taught school and practised law. His first published novel is the gold-medal-winning Soldier of the Horse, the story of his father’s time in the WW I Canadian Cavalry Brigade. Terror on the Alert, Robert’s second prize-winning novel, is set in a Canadian submarine during the Cuban Missile Crisis. It was published in September 2014, in time for the 100th anniversary of submarines in Canada. He is a past president of Canadian Authors–Metro Vancouver and a member of the Canadian Authors Association national board of directors.
