During his freshman year at the University of Idaho, he partied his grade point average down to 1.0. Flunking out, he took a job at a tire and rubber company, ended up in a body cast, lost his job – and drowned his misery in alcohol.
Ed was sinking fast.
Then his new wife, Jean, threw him a life buoy. “What do you really want to do?” she asked.
He hesitated, remembering a dream. “Coach.”
“Then, let’s make you a coach.”
His father-in-law said, “If you’re going to coach, I expect you to be a very good one — an Olympic coach.”
Like that’s ever gonna happen, Ed thought.
The raging waters, with turbulent twists, take the Jacobys to a place beyond anyone’s craziest imaginations.
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Seven stories, nine “swimmers” gasping for air in voracious life-sucking whirlpools. They crash against jagged rocks — cheap sex, deaths of loved ones, abandonment, suicide attempts, drug additions, impending long prison terms, killers chasing them — and each search the shoreline for a rescue team. Will they find a lifeline? Will they sink — or swim?
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