Salmon Run
Woodrow Salmon has it all—a great career, money, a beautiful wife. Yet inside his gut burns like a warehouse fire. The frustrated executive is tired—tired of working eighty hours a week, tired of being married to a woman he never loved, tired of everything. But miserable as it is, this is the life he’s chosen, the life he’s meant to live. At least that’s what he believes. He’s wrong.
Wading into the cool waters of the Pacific Ocean, Woodrow has no idea what awaits him—a scuba diver hired by his wife, his assignment murder. But a violent wave rips the victim from his attacker’s grip, unraveling the plan and leaving Woodrow without a swimsuit. Dazed and naked, he stumbles up the crowded southern California beach, only to be arrested for indecent exposure.
The terrifying incident launches Woodrow from the familiar to the uncertain, robbing him of all he knows, from his wife to his job to his three-year-old twins. Alone and on the run, he embarks on a fateful journey, one of desperation and self-discovery, of introspection and revelation, a journey that will change his life forever.
Along the way, he crosses paths with a string of memorable characters, each propelling him one step closer to the truth: Courtney St. Thomas, an enigmatic wanderer who trades untold riches for a life on the rails; Veronica Herons, a lonely businesswoman who pays her employees in sexual currency; Virgil Trousdale, a minor league baseball manager who’d sell his soul for a championship; and Eddie Chance, an eighty-year-old hermit who forces Woodrow to brave the killing fields of his past.
With humor, intrigue, and suspense, Woodrow’s journey unfolds like the layers of a human heart, leading him back to the dreams he’d long forgotten, the life he’d once abandoned, and the person he believed he’d lost forever.