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Whalefall

Daniel Kraus

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#7835 of 8,085 books · #2500 in Crime & Thriller

Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction (2023).

Whalefall was a USA TODAY BESTSELLER. Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool's errand—to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach. He knows it's a long shot, but Jay feels it's the only way for him to lift the weight of guilt he has carried since his dad's death by suicide the previous year. The dive begins well enough, but the sudden appearance of a giant squid puts Jay in very real jeopardy, made infinitely worse by the arrival of a sperm whale looking to feed. Suddenly, Jay is caught in the squid's tentacles and drawn into the whale's mouth where he is pulled into the first of its four stomachs. He quickly realizes he has only one hour before his oxygen tanks run out—one hour to defeat his demons and escape the belly of a whale. Suspenseful and cinematic, Whalefall is a thriller about a young man who has given up on life…only to find a reason to live in the most dangerous and unlikely of places.

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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-13
9781665918183
Topics
SurvivalGrief and guiltFather-son relationship

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