Tuna by Kenneth Cook

This is the story of Jack Foster, a man fighting against two mighty enemies--the sea and the hire purchase system. Foster, a fisherman on the south coast of New South Wales, finds himself beset by both these antagonists in his struggle to keep for himself the thing in the world he wants most--a tuna fishing boat. With the simplicity of a strong man he sets himself against odds that are very nearly impossible. 
   It is a story of great violence, but violence is verey much part of the life of the people who live this way-- violence that exists in the very nature of the fishing trade and in the deep antagonism between the long established Australian fishermen and the later arrivals from the Mediterranean, counterpointed by the sedate violence of commercial life.
   The book emerges in patterns of action apparently haphazard but finally interdependent and producing an almost inevitable result. Written with unadorned power and simplicity, and with no hint of sentimentality, Tuna is a novel to read and remember.

Genres: Contemporary - Adventure - Australia - Enviornmental