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Clucked - A Quirky Nautical Tale of Adventure, Misadventure, and Justice Served

English · Paperback / Softback

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Love a good adventure story-one with sweet old dogs and flawed, yet lovable humans? Hate the idea of factory farming and animal abuse? If so, you're gonna love Clucked! Clucked takes the reader, its bereaved Spam-loving protagonist, and one elderly rat terrier on a wild voyage from Corpus Christi Bay to the Sea Islands.
What do you do when you have nothing left to lose? You say goodbye to everything and everyone you'd ever known, pack up your worldly belongings (and an old half-blind dog), cast off your lines and set sail in your tiny sailboat to anywhere else.
Two years ago, Matt lost his wife to an asleep-at-the-wheel truck driver for the corrupt Clawson Chicken Corporation, and most of his savings to a court battle with the aforementioned fowl magnate. Trusting that the ocean will heal his battered psyche, Matt heads out from Corpus Christi Bay in a vintage sloop, trying to out sail bad memories and find a path forward.
As he winds his way east beyond the Gulf, he has adventures (and misadventures), meets a quirky cast of characters, and is dogged at every turn by reminders of the reach of the greedy chicken king, Colonel Clyde Clawson. A close encounter with a coral reef nearly wrecks his boat, a mishap that draws him away from his loosely-charted journey, up the intracoastal waterway, to Bullfrog's Boatyard, and ultimately into the heart of Gullah Geechee country.
Here, Matt meets a beguiling linguistic anthropologist and learns the terrible truth about the Colonel, his secret lab, and his cannibalistic coterie (the Circle of Tantalus). With environmental abuse running rampant and factory farming taking on a whole new meaning, it will be up to Matt and friends, both old and new, to bring down the greedy Clawson corporation, find justice for its victims and along the way, save a musical dog, and a whole bunch of chickens.

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Like his protagonist, Hollan once pulled up anchor in Corpus Christi Bay, and set off in search of adventure and a new beginning. For three years, he sailed his patched-up 1967 Pearson Vanguard around the Caribbean and to parts of Central and South America. He might have sold his boat, but he's always sought out adventure-from salvage diving in the Bahamas to climbing many of Colorado's "fourteeners." These days, he does his exploring in a well-used pickup truck with a rooftop tent, exploring the less-traveled backroads of the U.S. and Canada with his wife and two spoiled rescue dogs.

Product details

Authors Troy Hollan
Publisher Black Rose Writing
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 09.11.2023
 
EAN 9781685133092
ISBN 978-1-68513-309-2
No. of pages 266
Dimensions 127 mm x 203 mm x 16 mm
Weight 324 g
Subject Fiction > Narrative literature

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