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 f