The Shark Wrangler: A Novel of Survival

A forty-one-year-old rodeo champion breaks his back in Las Vegas, walks away from the only life he was ever meant for, and flies to a commercial tuna port at the bottom of Australia. He has no plan. He has no next. What he finds in Port Lincoln is a captain who needs a man willing to go into the Southern Ocean and untangle Great White sharks from a fishing net — and a discovery that everything twenty-three years on the back of a bull taught him about staying calm in the presence of something that wants you off its back translates, exactly, to working underwater with animals that are older than mammals and larger than a truck.

The Shark Wrangler is a spare, physical novella about loss, the intelligence of the body, and the late grace of a second life you did not plan.