# Whalefall - Paperback

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by **Daniel Kraus** (Author)

**Soon to be a major motion picture from 20th Century Studios**

**A _USA TODAY_ BESTSELLER**

**From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of _Angel Down_ comes a 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 an "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.

### Author Biography

Daniel Kraus is a _New York Times_ bestselling writer of novels, TV, and film. His novel _Angel Down_ was the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, a _New York Times_ Top 10 Book of the year, and a national bestseller. His novel _Whalefall_ received a front-cover review in _The_ _New York Times Book Review_, won the Alex Award, was an _Los Angeles Times_ Book Prize Finalist, and was named a Best Book of Year by NPR, _The_ _New York Times_, _Chicago Tribune_, and more. With Guillermo del Toro, he coauthored _The Shape of Water_, based on the same idea the two created for the Oscar-winning film. Also with del Toro, Kraus coauthored _Trollhunters_, which was adapted into the Emmy Award-winning Netflix series. He cowrote _The Living Dead_ and _Pay the Piper_ with legendary filmmaker George A. Romero. Kraus's _The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch_ was named one of _Entertainment Weekly_'s Top 10 Books of the Year. Kraus has won the Bram Stoker Award, Scribe Award, two Odyssey Awards (for both _Rotters_ and _Scowler_), and has appeared multiple times as Library Guild selections, and more. Kraus's work has been translated into over twenty-five languages. He lives with his partner in Chicago. Visit him at DanielKraus.com.

**Number of Pages:** 336

**Dimensions:** 0.9 x 8.1 x 5.3 IN

**Publication Date:** September 10, 2024

**Award:** Alex Awards (2024)

## Details

- **Price:** 25.99 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Fiction, Hard Science Fiction, Price Written on Book, Science Fiction, Suspense, Thrillers

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