![]() ![]() The Fisherman is a story within a story within a story. It will bring Abe and Dan face to face with all that they have lost, and with the price they must pay to regain it. ![]() It’s a tale of dark pacts, of long-buried secrets, and of a mysterious figure known as Der Fisher: the Fisherman. ![]() Soon, though, the men find themselves drawn into a tale as deep and old as the Reservoir. When Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each other’s company and a shared passion for fishing, hear rumors of the Creek, and what might be found there, the remedy to both their losses, they dismiss it as just another fish story. Steep-banked, fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true. In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman’s Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. The Fisherman by John Langan is such a book. That makes you think days after you’ve turned the last page, that takes you down a path to somewhere dark and dangerous and mysterious and amazing all at once. It’s a rare thing, a book that sticks with you. ![]()
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