Crescent Beach - Couverture souple

Mather, David J

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1935925741 ISBN 13 : 9781935925743

Editeur : Peace Corps Writers, 2016

Synopsis

Cardboard-wrapped, forty-pound bales of marijuana called square grouper are flooding Florida’s Gulf Coast. Undercover State Trooper Rusty McMillan is sent into the backwater fishing village of Crescent Beach to bust a key operator and stem the area’s rampant smuggling. Expecting to deal with trailer trash, Rusty instead discovers a hardworking community from an earlier era when life was simple and straightforward. He becomes immersed in the everyday life of shrimping, crabbing, and fishing, while at night he drinks beer, arm wrestles, and plays poker with the locals who become his friends.Rusty gets the evidence he needs, but can he make the arrest? Either way he’s a traitor: to his job or to the community. But, before he can decide, the town is slammed by unexpected hurricane force winds and a lethal twelve-foot tidal surge. Rusty joins the men, women, and children in the life-and-death struggle with a ferocious storm that plays no favorites.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

After Bowdoin College in Maine, I joined the Peace Corps. I was the most isolated volunteer in my group and those two years shaped my adult life. Before the Peace Corps, I had caught the travel bug during summers between college semesters, working as a wiper after my freshman year on a Norwegian tramp freighter that sailed to Japan and touring Europe in a blur on a Triumph motorcycle. Like many of us in the ‘60’s, I was idealistic. The Peace Corps sent me to southern Chile where two things became etched into my being: I learned to love the simplicity of rural life, and realized that we just do not need all the ‘stuff’ we had back in the States. After the Peace Corps, I traveled all over South America, including some 1000 miles up the Amazon, then bought a Triumph Bonneville motorcycle from a soldier in the Canal Zone and returned overland to the U.S. I ended up in N.H., where I bought a small piece of land in the woods over a mile from the nearest town road and electric service. I became a ‘back-to-the-lander,’ and I built a small cabin and have lived off grid there for over 40 years, although recently my wife and I have begun to spend the winters on the “Redneck Riviera” of the northern Gulf Coast of Florida. After I built the cabin in N.H., I had to figure out how to make a living. I became a hands-on, self-educated forester, and I have done about everything there is to do in the woods. Eventually I started and built up a retail specialty lumber business (Tuckaway Timber Co.) where I traveled from Maine to Pennsylvania buying only very special logs which we sawed out, dried, machined if necessary, and sold. Being self-employed allowed me to continue to travel a great deal. At about the age of sixty when the realities of having worked very hard physically for so many years set in, I downsized the company and began to write. In 2012, One For The Road was published under the Peace Corps Writers Imprint. It is basically my Peace Corps memoirs masquerading as a novel (www.onefortheroad-mather.com). In 2014, I published a sequel, When the Whistling Stopped, which is an eco-thriller about the decimation of the largest single population of black-necked swans in South America. My latest novel, Crescent Beach, is about a lawless, small coastal fishing village in the Big Bend area of Florida that is slammed by the Storm of the Century in 1993.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peace Corps Writers
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1935925741
• ISBN 13: 9781935925743
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 426
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