WHALEFALL by Daniel Kraus in Stock and Shipping. Copies Available!

We’ve begun shipping our copies of Daniel Kraus’ ingenious, tense masterpiece, Whalefall, and will be reordering additional copies from the publisher, SST Publications.

To the praise we’ve shared already, we’ve added three glowing reviews—two of them of the starred variety—at the bottom of this description.

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“An absolute triumph, a masterpiece of suspense, emotion, and flat-out terror … It’s one of this year’s can’t-miss books, and a journey you won’t soon forget.”—Paste Magazine

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM 20TH CENTURY FOX 

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER

Named a Best Book of 2023 by Book Riot, Shelf Awareness, and NPR

The Martian meets 127 Hours in this “astoundingly great” (Gillian Flynn, #1 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.

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.

Suspenseful and cinematic, Whalefall is a “powerfully humane” (Owen King, 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.

Signed Limited Hardcover Edition: 

• Limited to only 500 signed and hand-numbered copies
• Signed by Daniel Kraus and Vincent Sammy on a specially designed full-colour illustrated signature page
• 14” x 9.21” trim size
• Offset printed on 100gsm Munken Print Cream
• Bound in full cloth
• Head and tail bands
• Hot foil stamping on the front boards and spine
• Full-colour endpapers
• Sewn binding
• Ribbon page marker
• Dust jacket artwork by Vincent Sammy
• Naked artwork on reverse dust jacket
• Featuring six full colour interior illustrations by Vincent Sammy printed on a special silk art stock & tipped into the book
• Housed in custom two-piece enclosure
• Covered in a deluxe material
• Hot foil stamping on the front and back
• Ribbon lifter 

PRAISE:

“This hard sci-fi thriller is full of cinematic and wild suspense and would be great for fans of Andy Weir, although the tone is far more austere.”

—Library Journal (Starred Review): 

“The pacing is relentless, the awe astounding, and the tension palpably constricting, even as Kraus takes time to provide necessary details both scientific and visceral. However, it is Jay’s constant growth throughout the story that makes this novel shine, allowing its beauty to emerge and leave its mark on all who encounter it.”

—Booklist (Starred Review)

“Just on the brink of horror fiction, especially for the claustrophobic, this deep-sea thrill ride will have readers on the edges of their seats.”

—Publishers Weekly

“One of the most intense — and moving — stories that will grace the bookstores in 2023 … what Daniel Kraus has created here is something that can’t be quantified.”

—Cemetery Dance