The Deadliest Catch: Desperate Hours

The Deadliest Catch is the hit TV series featuring the harrowingstruggles of fishermen on the wild and freezing Bering Sea - it's theperfect storm but for real. It was Discovery Channel's highest-ratedseries in 2006, the third season finale had 3.85 million viewers, itreceived four Emmy nominations in 2007, and the DVD is the top selleron DiscoveryStore.com. Footage from the series is a popular download onYouTube (there are loads of clips on there, but the most popularhas had 37,721 views since it was added 4 months ago) and there was agreat spread on the series in the freebie Friday Sport paper. This isthe only book on the series backed by the Discovery Channel, andfeatures exclusive photography alongside vivid personal accounts of thefishermen's terrifying real life adventures, with additional storiesand background information on the crab fishing industry. This is aperfect cross over title from the nautical market into the trade, andhas significant general trade sales potential.