Bücher von John Merriam

Set in 1969-70, this is a chronicle of a young man's flight fromthe Viet Nam draft and potential arrest on unrelated charges. Thestory starts in Seattle and goes to the coast of Maine, a vegetableoil factory in New Orleans, the red light district of wartime Saigon,and ends up with hitchhiking on Route 66 to get back to Seattle fromNew Orleans.This is the first in a collection of sea stories based upon theauthor's experience working aboard 17 freighters and tankers from1970 to 1982. John Merriam was an unlicensed seaman in the U.S.merchant marine for those 12 years while working his way throughcollege and law school. Tuition for law school was paid with ascholarship from the Seafarers International Union. Passing the barin 1982, he was associate and then partner at a small, generalpractice firm in Seattle before starting his own firm in 1996.Mr. Merriam now restricts his law practice to representingindividuals with claims for maritime wages or injury. He is a solepractitioner with an office at Seattle's Fishermen's Terminal.The author lives with his wife, Kaye Walker, in Shoreline, WA.