The Practical Navigator

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Publisher: Sopris Books
Release Date: March 8, 2021
Formats: Paperback, Ebook, Audiobook
ISBN: PB: 978-1-7359208-0-1; EB: 978-1-7359208-1-8; AUD: 978-1-7359208-2-5
Trim: 5.5 x 8.5
Page Count: 414

 

Chris Crowley

Perfect for fans of Scott Turow and John Lescroart, The Practical Navigator is a smart, fast-moving legal thriller where everyone’s motives—and desires—are in question.

Membership in the Great Arcadia, an exclusive East Coast yacht club, is pretty much limited to the rich and powerful in 1980s business, finance, and politics. But the sexually charged murder of Greek billionaire George Minot during their annual regatta off the coast of Maine opens a door into a secret world of addictive sexuality and excess beneath the starched sheets of the East Coast establishment.

Tim Bigelow is looking forward to spending a week at sea with the magical Cassie Sears, who has suddenly appeared in his life. He’s also there to celebrate his older brother, Harry—the retiring commodore of the Great Arcadia who’s on course for a major role in the White House. That prospect slips away when Minot is murdered and details start to come out, including the alarming fact that Minot saw himself as a latter-day embodiment of the Minotaur—the half-man, half-bull creature who lurked in the Labyrinth beneath the ancient city of Knossos in one of the oldest myths in the Western canon.

From the decks of the world’s finest yachts to the beds and boardrooms of some of the most powerful people in America to an electrifying courtroom trial in a dying coastal town, The Practical Navigator steers a course through its own labyrinth . . . a whirlpool of obsessive sexuality, murder, and despair.

About the Author

Chris Crowley is the author of the legal thriller The Practical Navigator. He is also the author (with the late Henry S. Lodge, MD) of Younger Next Year, the New York Times bestseller, with over two million copies sold in twenty-three languages. There are now six books in the non-fiction Younger series, including The Younger Next Year Back Book (2018), written with Aspen friend and healer Jeremy James. In addition, Chris’s work has appeared in various periodicals, including the New Yorker.

Before all that, Chris was a litigation partner at a leading Wall Street law firm, Davis Polk & Wardwell. For twenty-five years, he led teams in the usual run of big cases for major companies. And he brought a pro bono suit against the City of New York—and successfully argued it in the Supreme Court—to compel the hiring and promotion of more African American and Hispanic police in the NYPD. He truly loved the law, he says. But he quit a little early “because I wanted to live more than one life.” He moved to Aspen for five years with his wife, the portrait artist Hilary Cooper, skied a hundred days a year, lived the outdoor life . . . and wrote.

Chris was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and grew up in Marblehead and Peabody. He graduated from Exeter, Harvard College, and the University of Virginia Law School. He has three children and six grandchildren. Chris and Hilary live in Lakeville, Connecticut and New York City and spend time in Aspen. They are avid skiers, bikers, and sailors.

Visit the author’s website at chriscrowleyauthor.com

Reviews

“Tightly written. Superb.” —Gay Talese, bestselling author and journalist

“A world of intrigue, suspense, sex, and murder. A riveting legal mystery. I couldn’t stop reading.” —James Zirin, author of The Mother Court

“Who’d have thought that our favorite health and fitness master could not only teach us how to live but also write a novel? Not just a novel but a legal thriller. What a feat! It’s graceful and smart, full of beautiful descriptions of Maine waters, sailing lore and courtroom intricacies, with a clever plot twist which I won’t reveal. Remarkable, and kudos to Crowley!” —Roxanna Robinson, award-winning author of Cost

“Told with wit, style, and cunning, The Practical Navigator is as fast-paced as it is unforgettable. Fun yet harrowing, this highly-readable thriller sets a direct course for the darkest recesses of the human heart.” —Scott Lasser, author of Say Nice Things About Detroit

“A most original murder mystery. Set on racing yachts in Maine, it’s a well-written tale involving Wall Street lawyers, Maine sheriffs, beautiful, smart women, plus dubious financiers and a great deal of sex. Who could resist it? Certainly not I.”
—Frances FitzGerald, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Fire in the Lake

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