Ian McGuire - The North Water

Details
Paperback - As new

Rating
4.0/5 Goodreads

Synopsis
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 boy is discovered brutally killed, Sumner finds himself forced to act. He soon learns he faces an evil even greater than he had encountered at the siege of Delhi, in the shape of Henry Drax: harpooner, murderer, monster...

"Brilliant, fast-paced, gripping. A tour de force of narrative tension and a masterful reconstruction of a lost world" - Hilary Mantel
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"Utterly convincing and compelling, A startling achievement" - Martin Amis