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212 page
Coastal Carolina Press |
Dodge Lawson has been around
Croaker Neck long enough to see his share of strange things. But
lately strange doesn't begin to describe what's happening in this small
fishing village. Sea turtles are turning up in the most unusual
places--a hotel Jacuzzi, a country club fountain, and even in the back of
a pickup truck. Dodge, who is paid to return the turtles to the sea,
wants to know who's behind the eco-pranks. It just might be his
friends-- a dying breed of backwater buckaroos struggling to retain their
traditions and self-sufficient way of life.
His best friend is Johnny Bollard, a shrimper whose ready smile and gifts
with the hoi toide language land him a guest appearance before the
state legislature. Then there's Digger Davis, the charter boat
skipper who lost his captain's license over an herbal
indiscretion. And Pogy, the town mystic, whose necklace of
Indian arrowheads lets him whistle past the Graveyard of the Atlantic.
Dodge is the man in the middle, a dingbatter in love with a
beautiful redhead on her own mission: saving the sea turtles. When a
Yankee filmmaker down to his last reel shows up in town, the pranks
escalate and events spiral out of control.
about the author
A graduate of Duke University, Bill Morris splits his time between the
Durham- Chapel Hill area and Down East Carteret County, the setting for Saltwater
Cowboys. A story adapted from this novel "Dinah's Dog"
won the 2003 Doris Betts Prize for Short Fiction. Other stories have
been published in Real Fiction, The Dead Mule, Urban
Hiker, Spectator, and the Best of the O. Henry Festival 2003.
Morris is also a regular contributor to Our State Magazine, Wildlife
in North Carolina, and the Raleigh News & Observer outdoors
pages.
See http://www.croakerneck.com
for more information about Bill Morris and Saltwater Cowboys. |
