Adult Conversations

Yacht owner and author NICK ANDREWS is approached by an octogenarian, JACOB MARKIN to accompany him to Baghdad, Iraq to open a business during the on-going Iraq war. During the course of their conversations, Markin reveals interesting details of his life's history, beginning prior to World War II and continuing to the present. Each chapter reveals further information about Markin's life and the developing friendship between the two men. Markin has captained ships during three wars, had shady dealings in diamonds and jade, owned a farm in Zimbabwe, owned yachts, sold encyclopedias, antiques, art works and quickie divorces, escaped death on a few occasions and practiced international and maritime law on every continent in the world.