Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #2)

by Stephen King

even the greatest storms begin as gentle breezes.

All pistol and no bullets.

because he felt that hope which could never be realized was a cruel thing,

No one rides for free, and in the end, even the most seaworthy ship goes down, blub-blub-blub. The only way to balance that off, in Hodges’s opinion, is to make the most of every day afloat. But