About This Book
Oscar Adams at age eighteen lost both legs in Viet Nam. Using his disability pension, he buys an old WWII ship and lives aboard it. He earns a living ferrying people across a wild and treacherous river in Northern Canada. In a period of eight months, he witnesses four fatalities on the river and then he nearly drowns. Consequently, he is afraid of the river, yet he must cross it several times a day. Oscar meets Betty Camdin, a young lady with an alcohol problem. He helps her enormously, and she helps him. Unwittingly, he reveals his fear of the river, and turns her off. Hoping to regain his esteem, he takes Betty and a passenger on a cruise up the river. Cascading ice from the river bank hits the ship and punches a hole in the hull, and the ship starts to sink. The ice also smashes the fuel line and the engine quits. The heavy river current drags them out into the freezing North Atlantic Ocean. They radio for help, but no one can rescue them before the boat sinks. To make matters worse, murderous birds and a killer whale attack the sinking ship. These three people are really on their own to save themselves. With only two hours to live how can they succeed?
