David
Hope, a charter captain in the British Virgin Islands, is a man
severely shaken by personal loss and looking for nothing more
than one last client to round out the season. At first it seems
Sally Moffitt is his salvation. Beautiful and reckless, a filmmaker
specializing in the mysteries of the deep, she meets David in
a Tortola bar. Soon they are headed into the North Atlantic aboard
Hope's catamaran Oona with a cache of “liberated”
film equipment.
They encounter an an enormous dolphin of a species never seen,
which presents the career opportunity of a lifetime for a nature
documentarian. Pursuing the creature, which swims a relentless
northeast course, they are hailed by the square rigged wind ship
Star Of Alabama, a research vessel owned by the rich
and powerful William Tree. Sally wants to keep her discovery for
herself and David. But William Tree will not be put off, for he
knows of a nightmare uncontained and all too real that is rising
from the depths.
“...when it comes to high-seas action,
Garrison is at the crest of the wave.”
—Kirkus
Review
