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When the Vessels, "La Conte sinks" suddenly in the night in one-hundred-mile per hour winds and ninety record-foot seas during a savage storm in January 1998, her five crew members are left to survive without a life raft in the icy waters off Alaska, and as best they can drive.

One hundred and fifty miles away in Sitka, Alaska, an H-60 Jayhawk helicopter lifts from the most remote Coast Guard base in the America's Hope, Search by an anonymous Mayday signal. A fisherman's worst nightmare become a Coast Guard crew desperate mission. As the crew begin the La Conte, one after die to the others who vowed to watch over them do everything, drag the rescue of the century.

In "Coming Back Alive, Spike Walker has produced a gripping story of an intense human drama. It leads you to the geography, history and people of the Alaskan fishing ports, describes seven hours extreme storm devastation and paints a unique portrait of the U.S. Coast Guard search and rescue helicopter crews.

The heroic efforts of the Coast Guard in the conduct of 50,000 search and rescue missions each year, we were not yet known, but might read this book internationally, their skill and Courage to be graphically represented as risking life and limb to rescue a miracle to achieve.

Interwoven with his meticulous research, the story of Walker Eyewitnesses and survivors' accounts and dispassionately report the facts in all their gruesome shocking details.

In the preface to his absorbing history of Walker concludes:

"While some of the material herein guite graphic in nature, it is my fervent hope that by writing about these events, will be similar predicaments in which young men die in the future entirely avoided, and that the devastating grief and a feeling of complete loneliness felt be overcome by leaving behind perhaps one day. "

He also quotes an old Coast Guard said:

"You have to go, but you do not have to come back. "

A brilliant work, full of adventure and suspense, a definitive guide to the dangerous sea and the men who risk their lives to triumph over them.

The author.

Spike Walker spent nine seasons as a sailor on board some of the most successful Shrimp boats in the fleet in Alaska. Besides his cancer-fishing experience, he worked in the offshore oil fields 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.

His other published works are: "Working on the Edge", a Memories of his years as a sailor in Alaska, and "Nights of Ice".

But it was his masterpiece, "Coming Back Alive," published in 2001, which brought him to international stardom. His most famous book was a huge bestseller and an important addition to the literature of the sea.

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Another 'Epic Book Sea "is" The Crying SEA "by Paddy Cummins.

Of a true sea tragedy that the Coast from Malta in 2008 was inspired, it is packed in a voltage Harrowing tale of human drama.

An excellent read … A story that stay with you forever. "

Read more at: href = "http://www.bridgepublishing.net" target = "_blank"> www.bridgepublishing.net

About the Author:

Irish author.
Books: Three novels. Four collections of short stories and poems.
Latest novel: ‘The Crying Sea’
Lives in Ireland in summer and in Malta during winter months.

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