Justin Scott has made his living for fifty years writing historical suspense novels, thrillers, and sea stories. Born in Manhattan, he grew up on Long Island's Great South Bay in a family of professional writers. Justin is an Eagle Scout, holds BA and MA degrees in history, and before becoming a writer, drove boats and trucks, helped build Fire Island beach houses, edited an electronic engineering journal, and tended bar in a Hell's Kitchen saloon. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, filmmaker Amber Edwards.