Whalefall

The Martian meets 127 Hours in this powerfully humane thriller about a scuba diver who`s been swallowed by an eighty-foot, sixty-ton sperm whale and has only one hour to escape before his oxygen runs out.`Astoundingly great. Whalefall is, quite simply, a beautiful novel-a must-read story` - GILLIAN FLYNN`A crazy, and crazily enjoyable, beat-the-clock adventure story` - NEW YORK TIMES`Fantastically gripping... Smart, surreal, and powerfully humane` - OWEN KING`There is nothing else quite like Whalefall` - NEW SCIENTISTJay Gardiner has given himself a fool`s errand: to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. 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 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 an `astoundingly great` (Gillian Flynn, New York Times bestselling author) 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.