In his number one bestseller, The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger describes Linda Greenlaw as "one of the best sea captains, period, on the East Coast." Now Greenlaw tells her own riveting story of a thirty-day swordfishing voyage aboard one of the best-outfitted boats on the East Coast, complete with danger, humor, and characters so colorful they seem to have been ripped from the pages of Moby Dick. During the voyage Greenlaw must contend with savage weather, equipment failure, too few fish, and too many sharks -- not to mention the routinely backbreaking work of operating a fishing boat in a state of mind-numbing exhaustion after working ten twenty-one hour days in a row. With a true fisherman's gift for spinning a yarn and a voice that's wry, honest, and all her own, Greenlaw brings readers right on deck with her and her crew, re-creating the experience of going for the big haul against awesome odds.
"A beautiful book... A story of triumph, of a woman not only making it but succeeding at the highest level in one of the most male-dominated and most dangerous professions."
DOUGLAS WHYNOTT, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
