Last Resort

Stephen Wolfe, a down and out fly fishing guide from north Georgia, has bills piling up and an empty bank account. The only one not worried is his faithful canine companion Skip. With only one hope to escape financial ruin, Stephen must win the Silver King Tarpon Tournament in the Florida Keys. Winning the tournament, a seemingly difficult task in itself, becomes more complicated when Stephen is pursued by some shady characters that threaten his existence. This fast moving novel is a “stay up and read all-nighter” with unexpected twists at every turn.

Stephen Wolfe, a down and out fly fishing guide from north Georgia, has bills piling up and an empty bank account. The only one not worried is his faithful canine companion Skip. With only one hope to escape financial ruin, Stephen must win the Silver King Tarpon Tournament in the Florida Keys. Winning the tournament, a seemingly difficult task in itself, becomes more complicated when Stephen is pursued by some shady characters that threaten his existence. This fast moving novel is a “stay up and read all-nighter” with unexpected twists at every turn.

Steven Smith spent most of his career working in the music industry developing new artists and supporting established, well known bands through tour support and marketing. This occupation from the late seventies to early 2002 kept him in hotels, on airplanes and driving rental wrecks over a hundred days a year ... some years a lot more. In 2002 he left Atlanta for a quieter and simpler lifestyle as a fly fishing guide in the north Georgia mountains where he resides with his canine confidant "Skip" and struggles to make ends meet ... but relishes every minute. Living without television since his self imposed exile has given the author time to reflect on his past adventures fishing the Keys and Bahamas and the insanity and levity of tour life in one of the most vicious businesses in existence. As the late Hunter S. Thompson once said, "The music business is a long, shallow, money trench ... where pimps and thieves run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." The combination of endless memories and the need for self entertainment has produced "Last Resort." Smith's first novel is a melding of years of journals from travel and fishing escapades and the sensibilities of experiences with the mega-wealthy and successful to the struggling and destitute ... an interesting and entertaining recipe.