Shark Fin Soup
Susan Klaus
Oceanview, Aug 19 2014, $26.95
ISBN 9781608091232
Christian and Allie Roberts enjoy sailing the Caribbean on their
sloop Catalina. While near the Bahamas,
Christian becomes irate when he observes fishermen illegally mass murdering
sharks. He upsets them when he
challenges what they are doing and threatens to expose them to the authorities;
they retaliate by killing Allie.
Filled with remorse that he provoked the incident that led to his
beloved wife’s death, he is well aware FBI Agent Dave Wheeler believes depressed
Christian killed his wife. Initially turning
to drugs and booze to numb his anguish; Christian eventually snaps out of his stupor
when he remembers Allie’s last words: “save the sharks.” Though still downloaded with guilt, grieving Christian
begins his quest to honor his late mate’s deathbed wish though well aware the growing
demand for shark-fin soup makes success unlikely. To pay homage to his spouse, the widower believes
he owes it to her to try; so as Captain Nemo he terrorizes those terrorizing
the diminishing shark population.
The second Christian Roberts thriller (see Secretariat Reborn) is
an intriguing cautionary ecological tale in which Susan Klaus warns that the
exponential growing demand for Shark
Fin Soup trends towards species extinction and consequently
destroying critical habitats, reefs. With
the shocking beginning leading to the protagonist becoming a born again
eco-terrorist, readers will relish his over the top of The Great Barrier Reef efforts to save the sharks.
Harriet Klausner
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