New York: Broadway Books, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A powerful novel by an author who worked as a commercial fisherman for 19 years, a story of the sea, of fathers and sons, and those who live on and by it. "Drifting in a life raft off the northern California coast after a horrifying shipwreck, Neil Kruger retreats from his fear by recalling scenes from his childhood as the son of a commercial fisherman out of Half Moon Bay. With his emergency rations fast running out, he finds solace in his vivid memories. As he grows into the fisherman's life we learn the real cost of his father's struggle with the sea. A book which is both an intimate story of a troubled family and an evocative memorial to the fast-disappearing world of commercial fishermen." INSCRIBED on the title page. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-767902440.