Daniel Kraus Whalefall

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Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool's errand: to find the remains ofhis deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. He knowsit's a long shot, but Jay feels it's the only way for him to lift the weightof guilt he has carried since his dad's death the previous year.Thedive begins well enough, but the sudden appearance of a giant squid puts Jayin very real jeopardy, made infinitely worse by the arrival of a sperm whalelooking to feed. Suddenly, Jay is caught in the squid's tentacles and drawninto 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 - onehour to defeat his demons and escape the belly of a whale.Suspensefuland cinematic, Whalefall is an "astoundingly great" (Gillian Flynn, New YorkTimes 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.