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WHALEFALL
The Martian meets 127 Hours in this scientifically accurate novel about a young man who's been swallowed by a seventy-foot, sixty-five-ton sperm whale and who now has less than two hoursthe amount of oxygen left in his diving tanksto escape.
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. But Jay feels it's the only way for him to make things right between him and his mom and sisters and to lift the enormous weight he has felt since his dad's death.
The dive begins well enough. But the sudden appearance of a giant squid puts Jay in very real danger, made infinitely worse by the arrival of a sperm whale looking to feed. To his utter horror, Jay gets caught in the squid's tentacles and is pulled into the whale's mouth, where he is then crushed within the whale's esophagus and ejected into the first of the whale's three stomachs. Jay quickly deduces that he has only two hours before his oxygen tank runs out ... two hours to figure out the impossible task of escaping from the belly of a whale.
Told in present-tense chapters within the whale's innards paired with flashbacks of key memories Jay has of his father, this microcosmic, yet cinematic epic is a heart-pounding, second-by-second thriller that is also completely scientifically accurate. More than any anything, Whalefall is a deeply moving story about a young man who has given up on so much of life ... only to find, inside the belly of a whale, a reason to live.
Daniel Kraus is a New York Times bestselling author. He co-authored the widely praised The Living Dead with George A. Romero. With Guillermo del Toro, he co-authored The Shape of Water, based on the same idea Kraus and del Toro created for the Oscar-winning film, as well as Trollhunters, which was adapted into the Emmy-winning Netflix series. Kraus's The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch was named one of Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Books of the Year, and his debut comic book, The Autumnal, was one of the most acclaimed comics of 2020. Kraus has won a Scribe Award and two Odyssey Awards (for both Rotters and Scowler), and his books have been Library Guild selections, YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults picks, Bram Stoker finalists, and more.
The dive begins well enough. But the sudden appearance of a giant squid puts Jay in very real danger, made infinitely worse by the arrival of a sperm whale looking to feed. To his utter horror, Jay gets caught in the squid's tentacles and is pulled into the whale's mouth, where he is then crushed within the whale's esophagus and ejected into the first of the whale's three stomachs. Jay quickly deduces that he has only two hours before his oxygen tank runs out ... two hours to figure out the impossible task of escaping from the belly of a whale.
Told in present-tense chapters within the whale's innards paired with flashbacks of key memories Jay has of his father, this microcosmic, yet cinematic epic is a heart-pounding, second-by-second thriller that is also completely scientifically accurate. More than any anything, Whalefall is a deeply moving story about a young man who has given up on so much of life ... only to find, inside the belly of a whale, a reason to live.
Daniel Kraus is a New York Times bestselling author. He co-authored the widely praised The Living Dead with George A. Romero. With Guillermo del Toro, he co-authored The Shape of Water, based on the same idea Kraus and del Toro created for the Oscar-winning film, as well as Trollhunters, which was adapted into the Emmy-winning Netflix series. Kraus's The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch was named one of Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Books of the Year, and his debut comic book, The Autumnal, was one of the most acclaimed comics of 2020. Kraus has won a Scribe Award and two Odyssey Awards (for both Rotters and Scowler), and his books have been Library Guild selections, YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults picks, Bram Stoker finalists, and more.
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