Chapter One
He was f****d.
And, what was worse this time around, he knew it.
“Never chase your losses,” his old Pa had told him and now, in his middle-forties, he’d finally found something on which he and the old man could agree.
Too late, of course.
That boat, along with his old man, having long left the jetty and been declared lost at sea - his recognition of such fatherly wisdom coming way too late to serve him any benefit in terms of either his choices or parental reconciliation.
Deep in depression after a messy divorce, and using alcohol to try and effect a miracle turnaround unlikely to be forthcoming even without its interference, he’d finally sat down with the wrong people and, with the help of marker’s he couldn’t make good on, gambled and lost money he hadn’t got and, more
