The Forty Fathom Bank and Other Stories

About this book

Called "stunning and suspenseful" (Andrea Barrett Outside) and "exquisitely detailed" (Alan Cheuse NPR) The Forty Fathom Bank is a gripping novella of adventure and desperation in the tradition of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Finally back in print this acclaimed cult classic tells the story of two men seeking riches on a late-season fishing trip off the coast of San Francisco. When a storm hits and the engine fails they confront more than treacherous seas in their fight for survival. This new paperback edition also now includes the late authors other rarely seen stories of the sea as well as an afterword by his friend and editor Jerome Gold. As James Lee Burke says "No one who reads this book will ever forget it."