Blood Knots

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As a child in the 1960s Luke Jennings was fascinated by the rivers & lakes around his Sussex home. Beneath their surfaces it seemed to him waited alien & mysterious worlds. With library books as his guide he applied himself to the task of learning to fish. His progress was slow & for years he caught nothing. But then a series of teachers presented themselves including an inspirational young intelligence officer from whom he learnt stealth deception & the art of the dry fly. So began an enlightening but often dark-shadowed journey of discovery. It would lead to bright streams & wild country but would end with his mentors capture torture & execution by the IRA. Blood Knots is about angling about great fish caught & lost but it is also about friendship honour & coming of age. As an adult Jennings has sought out lost & secretive waterways probing waters as deep as England at dead of night in search of giant pike. The quest as always is for more than the living quarry. For only by searching far beneath the surface Jennings suggests in this most moving & thought-provoking of memoirs can you connect with your own deep history.