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Book Review of Blackwater Sound (Thorn, Bk 7)

Blackwater Sound  (Thorn, Bk 7)
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BLACKWATER SOUND by James W. Hall: In the prologue, young Andy Braswell is killed in a tragic confrontation with a blue marlin. Now ten years later bone-fishing iconoclast Thorn is involved in a rescue operation after a passenger plane crash that leads him into the lunatic world of the Braswell family. The surviving Braswell children - psychopathic Johnny and dangerously beautiful Morgan - make an impressively deadly combination and their plans to market a terrifying device promises a reign of terror of awesome proportions. Overriding that story is an even greater one of the magnificent blue marlin, which the Braswells have hunted for a decade like Ahab after Moby Dick. Its a great sea story and possibly one of Halls best.