"Waves banged the battling boat. They struck it like steel hammers. They fell on it like brick walls. This way! That way! Over! Under! One minute they reared like unclimbable cliffs. And the next they plunged like bottomless holes."
One boy against the elements. Will he survive? And how did he come to be in such a predicament?
The waves of this story sweep and surge, tossing the reader first one way and then the other, alternating between fantasy and reality, between the raging storm and the calm.