Nailer is a teenager whose job is to strip copper wiring from old oil tankers. It's a dangerous dirty job and when he's done he has to go home to a drug addicted, alcoholic father who beats him. He would liek a different life and one day he finds an expensive clipper stranded by a hurricane. He goes to strip it, but finds a rich girl as the lone survivor. The decisions he makes will affect his future and take him on a dangerous, yet exhilerating adventure. I read this book in one sitting, it was that good. The charcters were so well written and had so much depth, that even after I'd finished I wondered what I would have done if faced with the same decisions that Nailer and the other characters had to make. The setting also plays a role in the story because it's set in the future after many hurricanes had destroyed the Gulf Coast to where it is practicly uninhabitable. It talks about the crumbling buildings and houses that used to stand as well as the jungle that has grown over the streets, so you couldn't hardly tell they ever existed. I would definitely recommend this book, but due to the extreme violence and vivid descriptions of mutilation I probably wouldn't suggest it to anyone under 13 at the youngest.
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