Description:
In Fins: A Novel of Relentless Satire, pirates catch sharks in a marine reserve, lop off their fins, and discard the sharks for dead. A series of puzzling, apparently related shark attacks follows, suggesting that sentient sharks are cooperating to exact more than revenge. The carnage escalates until a brilliant, beautiful, beleaguered forensic technician-risking probable death and certain dismemberment-discovers the secret behind the attacks, revealing much more than was bargained for.
Brief description: Gene Helfman, PhD, is an animal behaviorist turned conservation biologist. He has authored four reference books on fish and marine conservation. His 2021 novel, Beyond the Human Realm-about love, loss, and redemption among killer whales-won the 2022 NIEA Award and 2022 Readers' Favorite Award for Animal Fiction. Gene and his wife Dr. Judy Meyer live on Lopez Island in Washington State.