Tom Clavin, award winning author and former New York Times writer introduces his 8th book 'Dark Noon' about a tragedy at sea off Montauk. Tom Clavin the was editor of the East Hampton Independent and the Southampton Independent, two of the countries most award-winning weeklies, for ten years. In addition to fifteen years writing for the New York Times, he has authored numerous articles appearing in such periodicals as Reader's Digest, Golf Magazine, Parade, and Family Circle. Mr. Clavin has written and edited hundreds of pieces on fishing and boating. 'Dark Noon is a taut and suspenseful re-creation of a fateful day at sea. It is also a story of the postwar American dream as experienced in the fishing village of Montauk, Long Island, where fish were money and where optimism and success went hand in hand. And it's a story of the end of an era, when one terrible disaster changed the fishing culture of a prosperous port forever. Every dream has an end. In Dark Noon the end comes in a violent storm. Montauk would never be the same...' http://www.amazon.com back to our guests ... Print-Version