Sink Or Swim [Import] [Hardcover]

Gerald Hammond (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: Macmillan; 1st Amer. Ed. edition (1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0333656679
• ISBN-13: 978-0333656679
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Story Moves at About the Same Pace That Fishing Does, August 28, 2007

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James N Simpson (Gold Coast, QLD Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sink or Swim (Hardcover)

This is not the most action packed, fast moving or thrilling storyline that many a Gerald Hammond novel is. Hammond novels do vary considerably in quality from almost masterpiece reads to how did this get published books. Sink or Swim would fall in the middle. The slow pace of the storyline does force you to stick with the storyline. That slow pace however may just be what you are after if you're actually doing something like fishing.

In Sink or Swim a small Scottish town fishing supply store owner Wallace James barely makes it through the wilderness back to civilization before a heart attack finishes him. Bored in the ICU he begs for a shared hospital room instead of private room where he finds customers and other fishing and small town gossip enthusiasts in the beds beside him. They fill him in on the details of the drowning fishing accident death of pain in the neck customer and local landowner Kenneth Barry, details he was unaware of being that he only learnt of his death before his fishing outing. It seems Kenneth was almost saved by his arch enemy MP Colonel McInsch which greatly puzzles the bed lain men. Released from hospital confined to his house listening to a CB radio Wallace overhears a conversation of blackmail involving Mcinsch and decides he must get involved.

I'd recommend getting this from your local library. Hammond novels to pay money for are The Dirty Dollar, The Snatch, On the Warpath and A Running Jump