Genre: Contemporary adventure
The author got a rave review from
Stephen King, so he probably doesn't need my praise heaped on top,
but he's getting it anyway. This is a really fantastic story. The
tribulations of the Louisiana shrimpers during an industry tailspin
after the BP oil spill in the Gulf, the theft of high quality weed
from a couple of crazy brothers, one man's drug-addled search for a
treasure no one else believes in, and many other shenanigans are
taking place in Louisiana's Gulf Coast. There is a lot going on here,
but the characters are so well wrought that it is not difficult to
keep up. I love books, like this one, in which the setting is
detailed and described with such passion it become a character in the
story. I have a soft spot for well-written flawed characters and
realistic, not-idealistic storylines and this book is full of them.
Tom Cooper does for the Louisiana gulf coast what Jim Harrison does
for northern Michigan. The setting is described in a way that makes
you feel like you are there.
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