From the Gulf of Mexico's warm, shallow waters . . . Six-year-old Paul Haines watches as two older boys dive into a coastal river . . . and don't come up. His mother, Carolyn, a charter boat captain on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, finds herself embroiled in the tragedy to an extent she could never have imagined.
To the deepest parts of the Pacific . . . Carolyn joins with marine biologist Alan Freeman in the hunt for a creature that is terrorizing the waters along the Gulf Coast. But neither of them could have envisioned exactly what kind of danger they are facing.
Terror comes to the surface . . . Yet one man, Admiral Vandiver, does know what this creature is, and how it has come into the shallows. And his secret obsession with it will force him, as well as Paul, Carolyn and Alan, into a race against time . . . and a race toward death.
St. Martin's, $6.50, 0-312-96212-6
Charles Wilson was born at Kennett, Missouri,
and now resides in Brandon, Mississippi. Father, L. C. Wilson,
M.D.. Mother, Alberta P. Wilson. Two sisters, Lee Ann Wilson
(deceased) and Lila Jo Dunn. Educated at Kennett and Missouri
Military Academy. Higher education at Westminster College of
Fulton, Missouri, The University of Missouri, and Memphis
University. Business experience--farming in Northeast
Mississippi, real estate development in Central Mississippi, and
oil & gas syndications in the Enid, Oklahoma area. Favorite
activities outside of his family life, working with youth sports
(coached numerous little league baseball and basketball teams,
and served as a volunteer junior high head football coach for
seven years, compiling a 48-3-1 record during "The most fun
period of my life.") Married to the former Linda George.
Three children, Charles Jr., a graduate of Texas Wesleyan
University School of Law; Cassandra Lynn, a graduate of the
University of Mississippi School of Nursing; and Destin, student.
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