I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham Greene, of Hammett and Chandler, seemed to offer me all the rope I would ever need.

He won a silver medal with Mike Wolfs at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the men's Star event and a bronze with Eric Jespersen at the 1992 Summer Olympics in the same event. David Ross MacDonald (born January 27 1965 in Vancouver British Columbia Canada) is a Canadian sailor.

He began sailing at the age of 11. He won a silver medal with Mike Wolfs at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the men's Star event and a bronze with Eric Jespersen at the 1992 Summer Olympics in the same event.