Book description
The Martian meets 127 Hours in this "powerfully humane" (Owen King, 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…
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May I walk you through an interesting journey, to say the least? The stage is set, and a son in the usual ”my Dad doesn’t know anything” mentality, Jay Gardner, embarks on a venture to find the remains of his dad in the Pacific Ocean, where they both were divers.
We are escorted into the ocean underworld and all the challenges that lay in store. In this mission, Jay is tangled up in a “gigantic” octopus; the tentacles surround him, and the next thing we know, Jay…
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