The Midnight Trawl of the Mary C
A 1970s Fishing Fleet Heist

About this book:

The *Mary C* isn't just a crab boat—she's a floating vault packed with six hundred thousand pounds of red king crab, a fortune frozen solid behind a bank-vault door in the middle of the Bering Sea. It's 1976, the fishery is booming, and every man on deck is gambling his life against forty-foot seas, hydraulic lines that snap like whips, and a skipper who treats the Coast Guard like a suggestion. But Mate Don Finch has a sharper problem than the weather: the new deckhand, Karl Smetana, moves like a man who knows exactly how to crack a freezer hold, and the crew's loyalties are already fracturing in the dark.

Out on the shelf, two hundred miles from Dutch Harbor, the math turns lethal. A full hold means five hundred grand in cash at the dock—enough to make a man disappear, or make a corpse. When the radio goes quiet and the ice builds thick on the sorting tables, the only law is the skipper's gavel and the cold logic of the sea. Finch needs his share to save his house; Smetana needs something he won't name; and Captain Miller guards the only key to the money like it's his own heartbeat.

Gritty, claustrophobic, and charged with the smell of diesel, brine, and bad decisions, *The Midnight Trawl of the Mary C* drops you into the deadliest workplace on earth—where the catch is king, the crew is expendable, and the biggest heist in Alaska history is playing out one frozen wave at a time.