LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016
A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN NOTABLE BOOK 2016
A ship sets sail with a killer on board . . .
1859. A man joins a whaling ship bound for the Arctic Circle. Having left the British Army with his reputation in tatters, Patrick Sumner has little option but to accept the position of ship's surgeon on this ill-fated voyage. But when, deep into the journey, a cabin boy is discovered brutally killed, Sumner finds himself forced to act. Soon he will face an evil even greater than he had encountered at the siege of Delhi, in the shape of Henry Drax: harpooner, murderer, monster . . .
'A tour de force' Hilary Mantel
'Riveting and darkly brilliant' Colm Tóibín
- ISBN10 1471151255
- ISBN13 9781471151255
- Publish Date 11 February 2016
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 March 2017
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Imprint Scribner UK
- Edition Export
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 336
- Language English