{"product_id":"dark-noon","title":"Tom Clavin: Dark Noon [2005] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eSaturday, Labor Day weekend, 1951, dawned mild and cloudless over Montauk. Hundreds of passengers tumbled from the Long Island Rail Road's weekend express train, the Fisherman's Special, when it pulled in from New York City. The weather only confirmed the postwar optimism of the blue-collar workers who had thronged to this fishing village for a holiday of deep-sea angling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn America, in 1951, it was easy to believe that anyone could make money and enjoy the good life, and no place suited that mood better than a fishing town. The Montauk fishing business was booming. The dock the arriving anglers swarmed over had been named, without a trace of self-consciousness, Fishangri-la, and the waiting fishing boat captains could see no obstacle to a record weekend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaybe it was naive optimism that propelled Captain Eddie Carroll away from the dock that morning with sixty-two passengers aboard his fishing boat \u003ci\u003ePelican\u003c\/i\u003e, some thirty more than safe capacity. He was everyone's favorite skipper, a handsome World War II veteran with an easy manner, an endless supply of fish and war stories, a sturdy forty-two-foot boat, newly rebuilt engines, and an uncanny ability to find good fishing. In his pocket that day he carried the ring that he would soon slip on the finger of his Swedish bride-to-be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Eddie's luck was about to run out. Even as the \u003ci\u003ePelican\u003c\/i\u003e cut its outgoing swath through the sun-spangled Atlantic, a jet-stream trough of Arctic air high overhead, undetected by forecasters, was pressing down on the pool of warm air beneath it like water building behind a dam. The \u003ci\u003ePelican\u003c\/i\u003e and forty-five people aboard, including Captain Carroll himself, would never return to shore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDark Noon\u003c\/i\u003e is a suspenseful and ultimately heartbreaking sea story. It's also a journey back to the America of the early 1950s, when a laborer could buy a round-trip train ticket from Queens to Montauk and fish all day with Captain Eddie for $8.00. The \u003ci\u003ePelican\u003c\/i\u003e's passengers, like postwar America itself, were blinded by hope. They baited their hooks and waited, wondering what they would find in the deep and shining waters of the Atlantic, unaware of the dark storm gathering overhead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTom Clavin\u003c\/b\u003e was editor of the \u003ci\u003eEast Hampton Independent\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eSouthampton Independent\u003c\/i\u003e, two of the country's most award-winning weeklies, for ten years. In addition to fifteen years writing for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, he has authored numerous articles appearing in such periodicals as \u003ci\u003eReader's Digest\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGolf Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eParade\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFamily Circle\u003c\/i\u003e. Mr. Clavin has written and edited hundreds of pieces on fishing and boating. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Clavin, Tom","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":48979372704083,"sku":"XV80071423007","price":14.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/clavin-tom-dark-noon-xv80071423007-57178871857491.jpg?v=1727524936","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/dark-noon","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}