Anglers Journal

The Armchair Angler

The Shining Tides

By Win Brooks

Pocket Books

Win Brooks expands the reaches of striped bass fishing into pulp fiction with his 1952 novel With a setting like Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and characters like Father O’Meara and Stormy Force, the reader journeys to a time that attempts a faux-Ernest Hemingway/faux-Ian Fleming tenor. Each of the multiple story lines is salted by

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