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A sea story in the grand tradition of Conrad and Melville, this shamelessly salty and unbearably exciting novel is a welcome reminder that imagination transports us where facts cannot, that adventure created by a master storyteller can make reality seem tame. -- Daily News The novel...[has] been scrupulously researched, strongly imagined, and painstakingly hammered together: those who plunge headlong into its dark waters will not soon forget the experience. -- Kirkus Reviews The pages billow and snap with tension. -- Boston Globe The spirit of Joseph Conrad...haunts Philip Caputo's adventure-filled story. -- New York Times Book Review

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Philip Caputo is an award-winning journalist, the cowinner of a Pulitzer Prize, and the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including the memoir A Rumor of War, one of the most highly praised books about the Vietnam War of the twentieth century. Jim Frangione is an actor and audiobook narrator who won AudioFile magazine's 2011 Best Voice in Mystery and Suspense for his reading of Philip Carter's The Altar of Bones and Spencer Quinn's To Fetch a Thief. He has won numerous Earphones Awards and has been was a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award. His theater credits include the off-Broadway production of Scrambled Eggs and the New York premiere of David Mamet's plays The Old Neighborhood, Romance, and Oleanna, in which he also performed with the national tour. His film and television appearances include Joy, Transamerica, Spartan, Heist, Brotherhood, The Unit, and Law & Order.

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