Nautical & Maritime Fiction, Thrillers, Animals - Fiction
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Overview
Charles Wilson has received the highest praise from authors such as John Grisham and from reviewers, including being termed "Wizard Plotter" by the Los Angeles Times. Now, he has created his most chilling story yet-- a fast-paced thriller so realistic it will take your breath away and keep you riveted to the page.
From the Gulf of Mexico's warm shallow waters...to the deepest parts of the Pacific...terror comes to the surface...
Six-year-old Paul Haines watches as two older boys dive into a coastal river...and don't come up. His mother, Carolyn, a charter boat captain on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, finds herself embroiled in the tragedy to an extent she could never have imagined.
Carolyn joins the marine biologist Alan Freeman in the hunt for a creature that is terrorizing the waters along the Gulf Coast. But neither of them could have envisioned exactly what kind of danger they are facing.
Yet one man, Admiral Vandiver, does know what this creature is, and how it has come into the shallows. And his secret obsession with it will force him, as well as Paul, Carolyn and Alan, into a race against time...and a race toward death.
Editorials
From the Publisher
"Eminently plausible, chilling in its detail, and highly entertaining straight through to its finale." — Dr. Dean A. Dunn, Professor of Oceanography and Paleontology, University of Southern Mississippi"With his taut and fast words, Charles Wilson will be around for a long time. I hope so."— John Grisham
Book Details
Published
June 15, 1997
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pages
320
ISBN
9781466828322