'Puts some of the balls back into serious English fiction' GILES COREN THE TIMES
'Whisky-soaked guttural stinking and funny' EVIE WYLD OBSERVER 'Thrilling brutal poetic
literary and irresistible one of the 21st century's first great 20th-century American novels'
LOUISA YOUNG Before there was Jaws there was... QUINT You already know the end of his story:
now find out where it all began. Quint : the taciturn and grizzled sea captain who survived the
shark-ridden sinking of the USS Indianapolis only to meet his maker in the maw of a Great
White at the end of JAWS . So much more than a fisherman - a survivor a fighter a man who has
left three wives in his wake. In this vivid and utterly compelling masterpiece Robert Lautner
reimagines the life of a truly iconic character. 'Excellent... a profound portrait of a life
dislocated by war and violence' THE TIMES Best Summer Reads 'If Hemingway's The Old Man and
the Sea was doused in whiskey and strained through the gills of a tiger shark it would not
sound dissimilar... one of this year's literary miracles' IRISH INDEPENDENT
