Walker paints the history, geography, and citizenry of Alaskan fishing towns with great warmth and evocativeness...Don't be surprised if tears of relief flood your eyes after finishing. "Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"
Harrowing and suspenseful "Publisher's Weekly"
"COMING BACK ALIVE" is everything the genre demands: exciting harrowing maddeningly suspenseful. "Portland Oregonian"
Junger intrigues you, Greenlaw enlightens you. Walker will scare you half to death...Walker describes seven of the most intense hours I have read about. "National Fisherman's Journal"
Reminiscent of Sebastian Junger's "THE PERFECT STORM" and Frederic Stonehouse's "THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD." Highly recommended. "Library Journal""
"Walker paints the history, geography, and citizenry of Alaskan fishing towns with great warmth and evocativeness...Don't be surprised if tears of relief flood your eyes after finishing." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Harrowing and suspenseful" --Publisher's Weekly
"COMING BACK ALIVE is everything the genre demands: exciting harrowing maddeningly suspenseful." --Portland Oregonian
"Junger intrigues you, Greenlaw enlightens you. Walker will scare you half to death...Walker describes seven of the most intense hours I have read about." --National Fisherman's Journal
"Reminiscent of Sebastian Junger's THE PERFECT STORM and Frederic Stonehouse's THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD. Highly recommended." --Library Journal
Spike Walker spent nine seasons as a crewman aboard some of the most successful crab boats in the Alaskan fleet. In addition to his crab-fishing experience, Spike Walker has worked in the offshore oilfields of Louisiana and Texas; along the Mississippi River as a certified, commercial deep-sea diver; and in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Alaska as a logger.