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He was three generations of rodeo royalty. Then the bull won - and everything he thought he was went with him. Jack Morrison has ridden bulls his entire life. World champion. Living legend. The last man standing in a dynasty stretching back to 1951. When a catastrophic spinal injury ends it all in a single, sickening fall at the National Finals in Las Vegas, Jack doesn't just lose his career - he loses the only answer he has to the question of who he is. Adrift and unwilling to be pitied, he flees to the last place anyone would look for him: a gritty commercial fishing port at the tip of a remote Australian peninsula, where a weathered boat captain named Burke offers work with no questions asked. What Jack finds in the cold Southern Ocean is something no rodeo prepared him for - and something that, in the deepest way, it absolutely did. Because when massive Great White Sharks tangle in the tuna nets, someone has to go in after them. And Jack discovers that everything he learned about reading a wild animal, about stillness under pressure, about the precise negotiation between a human body and a creature that could kill you - applies. All of it. Just in water instead of dirt. ""The bull is never trying to kill you. It's trying to get you off. The dying is incidental."" His father's words. A different ocean. The same truth.Equal parts redemption story and edge-of-your-seat adventure, The Shark Wrangler is about what happens after the thing that defined you is taken away - and what you find when you're finally forced to look for yourself somewhere new. Set against the breathtaking scale of the Southern Ocean and the salt-worn world of Australia's commercial fishing fleet, it is a novel about identity, purpose, and the discovery that sometimes our greatest reinventions don't announce themselves. They just put us in the water. For readers of The Old Man and the Sea, Lonesome Dove, and The Shepherd's Life - and for anyone who has ever had to become someone they didn't plan on being.

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