Not only does Linda Greenlaw do one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, but she also does it extremely well. She has been described as “one of the best captains on the entire East coast”.
Linda was born and brought up on Isle au Haut, a tiny island ten kilometers off the coast of Maine, the USA. She fell in love with fishing as a child, and she worked on fishing boats during her summer breaks from college.
Linda has published four books to date.
But the world of fish and fishing is a man’s world.

A.So why did she take up swordfishing in the first place? |
B.And it’s not easy to find a word to describe Linda Greenlaw. |
C.Before becoming a writer, she was the captain of a swordboat. |
D.And that, in one of the leading countries in the fishing industry, is praise indeed. |
E.Her first opportunity to go on a deep-sea fishing trip came when she was nineteen. |
F.The swordfish is a very large fish that has a long swondlike beak formed by the bones of the upper jaw. |
G.The first one, The Hungry Ocean, was top of the New York bestseller list for three months. |