'Uncannily brilliant... a book to be swallowed whole' EVIE WYLD

'Excellent... a profound portrait of a life dislocated by war and violence' THE TIMES

Before there was Jaws, there was... QUINT

Fifteen years since I landed on Amity, an island full of rich folks adrift between the Hamptons and Montauk.

Got a business and a boat, got me a truck with my name and a pretty shark scratched on the door. Carved it myself. Bad job.

I got ghosts around me, lot of ghosts. Gotta put 'em somewhere. Can't drink 'em all. Ain't here for company, and I only got two stories for telling company anyways.

Thinking if I get them stories down, on paper mind, then that's just between me and the ink.

You already know the end of his story: now find out where it all began. So much more than a fisherman, Quint is a survivor, a fighter, a man who has left three wives in his wake.

From his time as a young sailor facing the horrors of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis, to a deadly night-long showdown with a frenzy of sharks years later, before he finally settles on the island of Amity: this extraordinary act of literary ventriloquism is a vivid and utterly compelling reimagining of the life of a truly iconic character - from the acclaimed author of THE DRAUGHTSMAN and THE ROAD TO RECKONING.

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.

Reviews

'QUINT is more than an uncannily brilliant impersonation of voice, it's a story that feels like it was there from the start. This is a book to be swallowed whole' EVIE WYLD

'Excellent... a profound portrait of a life dislocated by war and violence' THE TIMES

'Lautner ... has carved out the literary missing link between Moby Dick and The Old Man and the Sea, and gone a long way to putting some of the balls back into serious English fiction' Giles Coren, The Times

'QUINT brilliantly deconstructs a savage archetype that is scarce in today's sanitised world... if Hemingway's 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

'An act of literary ventriloquism... uncanny... one of the most surprising literary miracles I've come across in a long time' Hilary White, RTE

Book Information
ISBN 9780008647469
Author Robert Lautner
Format Hardback
Page Count 288
Imprint The Borough Press
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Weight(grams) 500g
Dimensions(mm) 240mm * 159mm * 28mm