His name is Lin Shen, a fisherman walking on the land of China.
For twenty-five years, with an off-road vehicle and a trunk of fishing gear, he chased the "strange fish" all over the world - some said he was a madman, some said he was the "King of Fishes", but only he knew: every time he threw a rod, he was fishing for the truth that had sunk to the bottom of the water.
From the crocodile gar in Zhiyin Lake in Yuxi, Yunnan, to the fluorescent pike in the Irtysh River in Xinjiang; from the heavy metal pollution in the Yellowstone section of the Yangtze River, to the pure black monster in Texas, USA - strange beasts in the water that should not exist, and secrets that have been deliberately buried, pointing to a mysterious codename that has been secretly operating in Chinese waters for 26 years: S. V.
This is not a simple fishing novel.
This is a passionate story about an ordinary person fighting against a transnational criminal group on his own; it is a pursuit of the truth across the Pacific; and it is a love letter to every river and lake in China.
The book incorporates dozens of real news events and character prototypes such as "Zhiyin Lake Alligator Gar", "Yangtze River Dead Fish Incident", "Pike Devouring Ducks", "Deng Gang's Life as a Fishing King", etc., Using fictional pens to describe real pain.
What Lin Shen's fishing rod caught was not fish——
It's the truth, it's justice, it's a fisherman's deepest love for this land.
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"The underwater world is deeper than on land."
Some fish are caught to prove their existence;
Some truths are revealed to prevent them from sinking
