Skeads: A Decent Sort of Man

by Dave Pistorese, Daniel Wetta (Editor)

Skeads, a nihilist searching for a meaning in life, witnesses nature's malevolence, lost vessels, needless death, and corporate greed with its pitiful appetites. Over the decades, these observations create wrath in him. In the unforgiving dark seas off Alaska, capable fishermen pit themselves against the vagaries of nature during make-or-break fishing seasons. Their comraderies and conflicts take place in microcosms of fishing vessels and occasionally in the warmth and tobacco smoke of a small-town restaurant and bar. Skeads well understands the elements, the food chain, and man's perilous position in the turbulence of nature, but when preventable deaths occur, his sense of justice leads him to an unforeseen resolution.

257 pages, Paperback

Published April 22, 2019

Reviews

[Jack Archibald · Rating 5 out of 5]

Skeads is a man on the frontier of the American continent and the American psyche, a mariner once saved from the jungle war he never speaks of and from the sea he has made his sanctuary, if any were to be found. An incredible tale of men tasked with their boats and demons, struggling to find peace in a world resistant to their efforts, where fate and destiny, luck and misfortune hound their journeys. All in all a great book, self published by a fine writer the equal of anyone.