Raiders: A Novel - Hardcover
The third book-after Highliners and Breakers-in McCloskey's thrilling saga of life in America's most dangerous profession-commercial fishing.
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William McCloskey is back with another gripping, lively novel set against the backdrop of western Alaska, one of the world's grandest but harshest seafaring environments. Raiders continues the adventures of Hank Crawford, first introduced in McCloskey's best-selling novel Highliners as a greenhorn, now a respected fishing captain.
Raiders is set in the early 1980s, heady years for Alaska fishermen, as they wrest control of their fishing grounds from foreign fleets. Banned by quotas from plundering U.S. waters as they had before, the foreign companies now hire Americans to catch fish for them under contract. Having entered into such an agreement with a Japanese firm, Hank meets hostility from his fellow fishermen, who see him as a traitor. But, Hank tells himself, he's only doing what
he must in order to survive. He also has other things to worry about. His spirited wife Jody is captaining her own ship in perilous waters. The Turisfune family, owners of the Japanese fishing concern that bailed him out of debt, can take his boat if he's not profitable. And Kodama, the new Japanese crewman Hank befriended and hired, is rubbing Hank's men the wrong way with his aloof nature and samurai work ethic. But all pressures are worth it for the chance to keep fishing.
Over time, however, Hank begins to suspect that his new employers are using him as a pawn in a political game. Hank's attempt to win back his freedom without losing his honor takes him to Japan, and brings him face to face with the possibility that he may lose all he has in order to redeem himself.
Bill McCloskey vividly depicts the fishing trade: giant halibut strong enough to break a man's arm; storms that cover ships' decks with ice; camaraderie and competition. From Alaska to Japan to the Chesapeake Bay, Raiders portrays fishermen trying to hang on to an endangered way of life. This is a story for anyone who has gone to sea, or dreamed of it.
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Raiders is set in the early 1980s, heady years for Alaska fishermen, as they wrest control of their fishing grounds from foreign fleets. Banned by quotas from plundering U.S. waters as they had before, the foreign companies now hire Americans to catch fish for them under contract. Having entered into such an agreement with a Japanese firm, Hank meets hostility from his fellow fishermen, who see him as a traitor. But, Hank tells himself, he's only doing what
he must in order to survive. He also has other things to worry about. His spirited wife Jody is captaining her own ship in perilous waters. The Turisfune family, owners of the Japanese fishing concern that bailed him out of debt, can take his boat if he's not profitable. And Kodama, the new Japanese crewman Hank befriended and hired, is rubbing Hank's men the wrong way with his aloof nature and samurai work ethic. But all pressures are worth it for the chance to keep fishing.
Over time, however, Hank begins to suspect that his new employers are using him as a pawn in a political game. Hank's attempt to win back his freedom without losing his honor takes him to Japan, and brings him face to face with the possibility that he may lose all he has in order to redeem himself.
Bill McCloskey vividly depicts the fishing trade: giant halibut strong enough to break a man's arm; storms that cover ships' decks with ice; camaraderie and competition. From Alaska to Japan to the Chesapeake Bay, Raiders portrays fishermen trying to hang on to an endangered way of life. This is a story for anyone who has gone to sea, or dreamed of it.
William McCloskey has been a Coast Guard officer, a merchant seaman, and a crewman on several fishing boats, as well as a reporter for The Baltimore Sun. His other books include Their Fathers' Work: Casting Nets with the World's Fishermen, Highliners, and Breakers (page 40). His work has appeared in Smithsonian, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, National Fisherman, and elsewhere. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
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- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1592282318
- ISBN 13 9781592282319
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