TY - BOOK AU - Kraus, Daniel, TI - Whalefall: a novel SN - 9781665918169 AV - PS3611.R3757 W53 2023 U1 - 813.6 23/eng/20221213 PY - 2023/// CY - New York, NY : PB - MTV Entertainment Books/Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., KW - Fathers KW - Death KW - Fiction KW - Scuba diving KW - Whales KW - Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc KW - sears KW - California KW - Pacific Ocean KW - Suspense fiction KW - Thrillers (Fiction) KW - fast N2 - "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. 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. 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. 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. 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"-- ER -