Sea Stories by
Alan hardwick
Sakaye Hatashita’s life as he knows it is over.
At eighty-years-old, with his wife dead and a his bold promise to return her ashes from California to her family in Japan unfulfilled, he is at a crossroads. A kamikaze trainee decades ago, Hatashita refuses to fly and many laugh when he says he will sail halfway around the world on his own. Old and feeble, he will rely on his iron will and experience long ago as a commercial fishing captain. But demons from his past, passing ships the size of skyscrapers and one of the worst cyclone seasons in recorded history will turn the Pacific into a formidable enemy. Casting off will be an extreme test of his resilience. But first, he will need to buy a boat and―remarkably―learn how to sail.
Who is Alan Hardwick?
Alan Hardwick grew up on a farm just outside beautiful Abingdon, Virginia. When he moved close enough to smell salt water, he took Ishmael’s lead to sail about a little and see the watery side of the world, buying a sailboat and ultimately becoming a yacht broker, selling boats on the Chesapeake Bay, Cape Cod, and San Diego. After twenty-five years, the wind blew Alan and his wife Lisa back to Virginia, where he began writing thinly disguised fiction and sea stories. When not writing, he can be found chasing two headstrong dogs, leaks on a twelve-foot wooden sailing dink, and his youth coaching tennis at his alma mater, Emory & Henry College.
Next up from Alan Hardwick:
the pod
Brothers Quinn and McGee jump at the chance to deliver a sailboat from the Caribbean to Charleston, SC. The plan seemed simple: fly to St. Vincent, jump on board, toss off the lines, and point the boat north. But the appearance of a menacing pod of killer whales chomping on sailboats and patrolling the beach for toddlers, a hulking Chinese research vessel, and its beautiful captain impede their departure. With romance on his mind, Quinn wades in to discover all is not what it seems with the ship and its mysterious skipper―a legless floater with a Gomez Addams tattoo being the first clue―and suddenly, the brothers join a mortal fight between man and beast. With lives at stake, they untangle the good guys from the bad and go to dangerous heights to set things right.
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