| Author/Contributor(s): | Javorsky, Earl |
| Publisher: | Hemlock |
| Date: | 7/20/2027 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
Twenty-two years ago, Paul Simmons watched a stranger's Jeep sail off a coastal cliff then walked into his first AA meeting. Since then he has built a life: a wife he adores, two kids, and a sobriety he never questions.
Then his son, Eric, is beaten into a coma outside a teenage party. The day before, a quarter million dollars, the settlement meant to rescue the family, vanished from their bank account. The police shrug. Paul's wife retreats into pain and pills. And Paul, who spent two decades learning to accept the things he cannot change, buys a gun.
Moving onto his late father-in-law's sloop in Oceanside Harbor, Paul follows the money, from a skate-park restroom to a biker bar in Escondido to a prison in Mexico, toward a Marine gunnery sergeant everyone warns him to avoid. Each step pulls him deeper into the world he escaped, and each comes with a drink, a pill, a line he swears will be the last.
Eric lies locked inside his silent mind, and the people Paul loves are slipping out of reach. Paul must decide how far he will go to set things right, and whether he can stay afloat long enough to do it.
Sink or Swim is a propulsive, unflinching novel of fatherhood, addiction, and what we'll do for family.