Fog - Softcover

McAlpine, Ken

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1469791668 ISBN 13: 9781469791661

Publisher: iUniverse, 2012

Synopsis

Welcome to the winter shores of 1882 Cape Cod, a world of shipwreck and quick death and a race to find a treasure that will change the course of a young America coming into its own. When a ship sinks in a storm, its secret dying on the lips of a child, a catastrophic chain of events is set in motion as Keeper Daniel Cole and his fellow lifesavers pursue a philosophical killer, a mooncusser who walks a stoic horse along the ridgeline of the Cape's towering beach cliffs, bending fate to his aims. Hope and despair, love and loss, sacrifice and sin, riddle and answer, blur and intertwine in a tale that calls into question mankind's moral compass, and the very nature of progress and civilization.

About this title

About the Author:

Ken McAlpine is the author of ten books;fiction, non-fiction and selected essays. Of his novel TOGETHER WE JUMP, USA TODAYsaid, "There's a beautiful Forrest Gump feel to this book. The main characterwas a delight, and I just loved his sad, wistful, wonderful tale." Hisnon-fiction work OFF SEASON: DISCOVERING AMERICA ON WINTER'S SHORE was a Barnesand Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. He is currently finishing thelast book in a three-book series (JUNCTURE, NEXUS, DEPARTURE), a tale partcerebral JAWS, part TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA and part warning.

Mostimportant, Ken lives in Ventura, California with his wife and their two sons.He likes to stand in his yard at night looking at the stars, but he does notlike to spend any time during the day doing yard work. For more information,please see kenmcalpine.com

Review:

"A 21st century Moby Dick that pits Pomp, an obsessedcharacter who will stop at nothing, against Daniel Cole, a good man who has an opportunityto stop the madness but can't. Ken writes in the style of Melville, Conrad andHemingway."  Richard Boonisar, maritimehistorian, past president United States Life-Saving Service HeritageAssociation

 
"One of the most intelligent, richly detailed, deeply feltand evocative novels I've read... The story is not only brilliantly told, butfilled with compassion for humanity's suffering."  MarjoriePreston, Catamaran Media
 

"A thrilling page-turner that should be turned into a blockbustermovie."  Woody Woodburn, Ventura CountyStar
 

"FOG is unlike any story I have ever read -- and introduced me toPomp, a character unlike any I have ever met."Andy Frederick, Goodreads review
 

About this edition

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1469791668
• ISBN 13: 9781469791661
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240