Chasing Davy Jones

Auteur

Charlie Sheldon studied at Yale University and the University of
Massachusetts, where he received a Master's Degree in Wildlife
Biology and Resource Management. He then went to sea as a
commercial fisherman off New England, fishing for cod, haddock,
hake, lobster, red crab, squid, and swordfish. He spent 28 years
working for seaports (New York, Seattle, and Bellingham, WA) as
a project and construction manager and later as an executive,
including habitat cleanup projects and working with Puget Sound
Tribes to reduce tribal fishing conflicts. Later he returned to sea,
shipping out with the Sailor's Union of the Pacific as an Ordinary
Seaman, Able Bodied Seaman, and Bosun. His last gig was as
bosun aboard USNS Shughart, New Orleans to New York, in 2016.
Always a writer, he published Fat Chance with Felony and Mayhem
Press in 2005. He began working on ideas for Strong Heart, Adrift, and Totem, his tales
about the Olympic Mountains, the Pacific coast, and human
origins long, long ago and began serious research in 2010. These
days he hikes in the Olympics whenever he can, cooks for his wife,
and continues to write tales in Tacoma, Washington.

Texte du rabat

It is 1977 and the 200-mile Fisheries Conservation Zone law has just passed. In New England everyone sees dollar bills jumping out of the ocean and all the hustlers, sharks, conmen and schemers are loose in the industry. Jim Hunt wants the bigger boat. Basil Banyon wants to reclaim earlier glories before his family lost their fleet to the Canadians in the 1950s. Walt Pesco just wants to make a decent living as a hired skipper and now he's working for Banyon. One October day Hunt's little 44-foot tub trawler