Set along the shores of the Chesapeake Bay, this first novel tells
the story of Clay Wakeman, who spent his boyhood on the water and
finds he can't leave it. When his father is lost in a storm off the
Eastern Shore, Clay drops out of college to take possession of his
father's boat and his work as a waterman, that is, as an
independent commercial fisherman.
Since the old boat constitutes his sole inheritance, Clay starts
out small. He recruits his oldest friend, Byron, a traumatized
Vietnam vet, to join him in a crabbing business. Just as they're
breaking even, Hurricane Agnes roars in to ruin the salinity of the
eastern Bay waters. Agnes forces them across the Bay to set their
crab traps along the Virginia shoreline and to move in with Matt
and Kate, Clay's uppercrust friends from college.
It's in these unfamiliar waters that their real troubles begin.
Clay falls irrevocably in love with the spoken-for Kate; Byron's
demons pursue him with even greater vengeance; and out in the Bay
the partners stumble onto a drug running operation. Lines are drawn
by the dealers. And, at the very end, in a riveting boat chase,
Clay comes very close to losing the battle . . . forever.
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