Deep Water Blues
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- $2.99
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- $2.99
Publisher Description
Inspired by a true story, artfully told by the author of Searching for Bobby Fischer: A Bahamian island becomes a battleground for a savage private war.
Charismatic expat Bobby Little built his own funky version of paradise on the remote island of Rum Cay, a place where ambitious sport fishermen docked their yachts for fine French cuisine and crowded the bar to boast of big blue marlin catches while Bobby refilled their cognac on the house. Larger than life, Bobby was really the main attraction: a visionary entrepreneur, expert archer, reef surfer, bush pilot, master chef, seductive conversationalist.
But after tragedy shatters the tranquility of Bobby’s marina, tourists stop visiting and simmering jealousies flare among island residents. And when a cruel, different kind of self-made entrepreneur challenges Bobby for control of the docks, all hell breaks loose. As the cobalt blue Bahamian waters run red with blood, the man who made Rum Cay his home will be lucky if he gets off the island alive . . .
When the Ebb Tide cruises four hundred miles southeast from Fort Lauderdale to Rum Cay, its captain finds the Bahamian island paradise he so fondly remembers drastically altered. Shoal covers the marina entrance, the beaches are deserted, and on shore there is a small cemetery with headstones overturned and bones sticking up through the sand. What happened to Bobby’s paradise?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This underwhelming novel from Waitzkin (Searching for Bobby Fisher) whisks the reader off to the idyllic island of Rum Cay in the Bahamas. There, Bobby Little has turned his marina into a paradise where wealthy sport fishermen come to taste his version of the good life. One of those visitors is Fred Waitzkin himself, who observes the escalating conflict between Bobby and Eddie, a newcomer to Rum Cay, who has his own ideas for how the island should be run. Bobby is something of a local legend, a former skateboard champ, surfer, and undercover DEA agent. But he seems to be no match for Eddie, who becomes his partner, with a sneaky eye toward taking over the marina for himself. As the two square off against one another, the entire island hangs in the balance. The author fills his plot with prototypically colorful characters including Biggy, a local man looking for love, and Mike, who lives in a rotting sailboat where he has spent the past 12 years working on a novel. Unfortunately, this story, which can be read as a parable for the dangers of capitalism, never fully engages the reader's imagination.
