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Quint

‘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


Author:

  • Robert Lautner

Narrator:

  • Nick Landrum

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 8 h 59 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Fiction
  • Contemporary fiction
  • Historic and folklore novels
  • Historic novels
  • Fiction
  • War novels
  • Adventure
  • Sea adventure

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    Robert Lautner

    Robert Lautner was born in Middlesex in 1970. Before becoming a writer he owned his own comic-book store, worked as a wine merchant, photographic consultant and recruitment consultant. He now lives on the Pembrokeshire coast in a wooden cabin with his wife and children. He is the author of The Road to Reckoning, which was a Simon Mayo Book Club choice. His second novel will be published in 2017.

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