At the Mercy of the Sea Audiobook Libro.fm

A normal Caribbean hurricane travels from east to west but Lenny was anything but normal Spawned south of Cuba in 1999 this lateseason storm defied all predictions by moving steadily east toward the Leeward Islands Eventually building almost to Category 5 strength Lenny squatted for two days between the Virgin Islands and St Martin whipping the ocean with 155 mileperhour winds and sixtyfoot seas

In its path in the Anegada Passage were three sailboats and their unfortunate crews La Vie en Rose a fortyonefoot sloop captained by exarmy lieutenant colonel Carl Wake English Braids a tiny twentyonefoot racer skippered by wouldbe elite competitive sailor Steve Rigby and FredericAnne a sixtyfivefoot schooner skippered by ambitious Guillaume Llobregat None of the men knew each other yet they converged by fate in a tiny circle of the sea in the midst of a storm no boat could withstand And even as he battled for survival Carl Wake lived the crowning hours of his life

John Kretschmers At the Mercy of the Sea retraces the journeys of these three sailors through life and across oceans It is a taut suspenseful recreation that seeks to make sense of the improbable intersection of three lives at the height of a storm and a gripping reconstruction of Carl Wakes search for meaning and ultimately for his soul