Ry’s ten year old self, scared and alone and desperate, made his three toys real. What is survival? That is what Scowler examines, both the physical survival and the emotional survival. “Survived” is a bit of an odd word to use, considering, as Ry does, that “ this was the Burke farm, over four hundred acres of nothing, and was terrified to leave it.” What type of survivor stays in the place that defines them as “victim”? The Good: Scowler flashes back and forth between 19, slowly revealing the full horror of what ten year old Ry and his mother survived. Ry is going to need his own strength, and the kindness, wisdom and brutality of his “Unnamed Three” childhood companions to survive his father once again - unless those companions turn on him.

He’s coming home to the wife and son who sent him away. Marvin’s coming home to the farm he loves. Then Ry hears about a prison break, from the local prison. Those childish toys and companions were put aside years ago. Furrington, a teddy bear Jesus Christ and Scowler, an angry troll. Ry, then ten, made it through with the help of three imaginary friends: Mr. Suspenseful and cinematic, Whalefall is an “astoundingly great” (Gillian Flynn, New York Times 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.Back in 1972, Ry and Jo Beth and Sarah barely survived. He quickly realizes he has only one hour before his oxygen tanks run out-one hour to defeat his demons and escape the belly of a whale. Suddenly, Jay is caught in the squid’s tentacles and drawn into the whale’s mouth where he is pulled into the first of its four stomachs. 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 feed. 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 by suicide the previous year. Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool’s errand-to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach. The Martian meets 127 Hours in this “ powerfully humane” (Owen King, New York Times bestselling author) and scientifically accurate 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.

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