Cape Hatteras, off the North Carolina coast, is known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic. Salvage diver Tiller Galloway discovers that his search for a wrecked boat may get him killed when a treacherous secret resurfaces. "Highly authentic thriller that crackles with energy. . . ".--Greg Dinallo, author of Purpose of Evasion. Martin's.

Tom Carlson tells the story of Ernal Foster and the Foster family of Hatteras Village, who gave birth to what would become the multi-million dollar charter fishing industry on the Outer Banks. Today, Ernal's son, Captain Ernie Foster, struggles to keep the family business alive in a time of great change on the Banks. Within the engaging saga of the rise and decline of one family's livelihood, Carlson relates the history and transformation of Hatteras Village and the high-adrenaline experience of blue-water sportfishing and the industry that surrounds it. Hatteras Blues is their story--a story of triumph and loss, of sturdy Calvinist values and pell-mell American progress, and of fate and luck as capricious as the weather.

Carlson's first-person narrative about the sport fishing trade and its relationship with the commercial fishing operations at Hatteras Island focuses closely on a relatively small group of people in the village whom we get to know quite well and, in the process, come to care for and admire. All sorts of folks will be drawn to this book, some for...