The Eel

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Writer Jack Fingon realises too late that his life of "intuition and attraction" has produced little to value, and nothing to remember. To settle a piece of unfinished business, Fingon devises a plan to fulfil the testamentary wish of French vagabond poet Blaise Cendrars -- to be buried in the Sargasso Sea where "life first burst from the depths of the ocean floor towards the sun".

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"The Eel is an adventure story, a mystery, a tale of intrigue that like the fish itself twists and turns and changes colours. And it originates, quite literally, at the source of all Life." -- Jim Christy, poet vagabond, tramp philosopher, novelist & sculptor "David MacKinnon in The Eel channels a seamless collaboration between Lawrence Durrell and Ernest Hemingway, with prose that will haunt, startle, and yes, entertain you." -- Joe Hartlaub, Senior Reviewer at New Yorks Book Reporter

Author Bio

David MacKinnon is a lawyer by training, member of both the British Columbia and Quebec law societies. He has five university degrees, including two law degrees and two degrees from Universite de Paris IV-Sorbonne. He studied history, law, languages and philosophy at the universities of British Columbia, Louvain (Belgium), Sorbonne (Paris), Laval (Quebec) and Ottawa. He has worked in oilfields, factories and warehouses, morgues and operating rooms, lumberyards, shipyards, construction sites and in the courtroom as a trial lawyer. For the better part of twenty-five years, he lived and worked in France and Quebec. He has written eight novels.