Introducing... Killing Mister Watson by Peter Matthiessen

Introducing books through the first chapter or so...

Sea birds are aloft again, a tattered few. The white terns look dirtied in the somber light and they fly stiffly, feeling out an element they no longer trust. Unable to locate the storm-lost minnows, they wander the thick waters with sad muted cries, hunting signs and seamarks that might return them to the order of the world.

-- Killing Mister Watson by Peter Matthiessen