Spying on Fishback by Jim Quinlan

When strange fish packer Fenwick Hardly and his two batty children take on a gang of tuna robbers, the penalties are predictable.

Spying on Fishback really does is characterise one family's life and defy good sense. It has all the elements: antics, vestiges of the afterlife, wish, a Ripley assemblage of individual characteristics if there ever was one. The father-son attachment is perceptive, entertaining, and sympathetic. The husband-wife interaction is dependable, scary, and downright weird. Fenwick, his wife, Woof, Tommy, Joe and some tuna robbers will not let you up or down.

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