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Recently completed, The Whale Chaser is the story of Vince Sansone, who battles with his embittered father, a Lake Street Fulton Market fishmonger, and falls in love with the neighborhood butcher's daughter, a winsome girl named Marie Santangelo. Vince also discovers a common bond with Lucy Sheehan, the numero uno girlfriend of Ronny Cannon, the neighborhood tough who repairs automobiles in his three-car garage, as Vince and his friends come of age on the mean streets of Chicago.

The Whale Chaser alternates between chapters set in Chicago during the tumultuous 1960's and those set in Tofino, a picturesque fishing town on the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, during the 1970's and '80's as well as today. Vince befriends Tofino's most colorful dealer, Mr. Zig-Zag, along with a gentle yet crafty Ahousaht native named Ignatius George, and works in a fish processing plant, as a minor functionary in the marijuana trade, and finally as a whale guide for an operation called the Chase Whaling Station. The reasons why Vince leaves Chicago for Canada, and the full consequences of his actions, past and present, are revealed only at the book's end.