Book Synopsis :
In the tradition of the #1
New York Times
bestseller
The Perfect Storm
and the bestselling investigative works of Jon Krakauer, a riveting account of a 1984 tragedy at sea and how the repercussions still haunt the town of Montauk to this day.In March 1984, the Wind Blown, a commercial fishing boat, left Montauk Harbor on what should have been a routine voyage. Its four-man crew--two locals, and two sons of the wealthy gentry that make up the Hampton's tony summer population--had no idea they would soon be facing hurricane-force winds as a Nor'easter put them in a fight for their lives. Sadly, it was a fight they lost. Neither the boat nor the bodies were ever recovered. As the second-worst nautical disaster suffered by a Montauk-based fishing vessel in over a hundred years, the fate of the Wind Blown has become interwoven with the local folklore of the East End's year-round population. It has evolved beyond a tragic story of four men lost at sea into a universal tale of