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''Puts some of the balls back into serious English fiction'' GILES COREN, THE TIMES ''Whisky-soaked, guttural, stinking and funny'' EVIE WYLD, OBSERVER ''Thrilling, brutal, poetic, literary and irresistible, one of the 21st century''s first great 20th-century American novels'' LOUISA YOUNG Before there was Jaws , there was... QUINT You already know the end of his story: now find out where it all began. Quint : the taciturn and grizzled sea captain who survived the shark-ridden sinking of the USS Indianapolis, only to meet his maker in the maw of a Great White at the end of JAWS . So much more than a fisherman - a survivor, a fighter, a man who has left three wives in his wake. In this vivid and utterly compelling masterpiece, Robert Lautner reimagines the life of a truly iconic character. ''Excellent... a profound portrait of a life dislocated by war and violence'' THE TIMES , Best Summer Reads ''If Hemingway''s The Old Man and the Sea was doused in whiskey and strained through the gills of a tiger shark, it would not sound dissimilar... one of this year''s literary miracles'' IRISH INDEPENDENT
About the author
ROBERT LAUTNER was born in Middlesex in 1970. Before becoming a writer he owned his own comic-book store, worked as a wine merchant, photographic consultant and recruitment consultant. He now lives on the Pembrokeshire coast in a wooden cabin with his wife and children. He is the author of The Road to Reckoning, which was a Simon Mayo Book Club choice, and The Draughtsman, which was longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Quint is his third novel.
