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01887aam a2200301Mi 4500 001 B5326D36A18B11E6AED112AEDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20161103010209 008 160202s2016 enk e 000 1 eng 020 $a 1471151247 020 $a 9781471151248 020 $a 1471151255 020 $a 9781471151255 035 $a (OCoLC)936408975 040 $a AU@ $b eng $e rda $c AU@ $d OCLCO $d NZHPC $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d AUNTL $d STF $d NZTPP $d DEBSZ $d YDX $d QGK $d WVU $d OCL $d IWA $d SILO 100 1 $a McGuire, Ian, $e author. 245 14 $a The North water / $c Ian McGuire. 264 1 $a London : $b Scribner, $c 2016. 300 $a 326 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a A 19th-century whaling ship sets sail for the Arctic with a killer aboard in this dark, sharp and highly original tale that grips like a thriller. Behold the man: stinking, drunk, brutal and bloodthirsty, Henry Drax is a harpooner on the Volunteer, a Yorkshire whaling ship bound for the hunting waters of the Arctic Circle. Also aboard for the first time is Patrick Sumner, an ex-army surgeon with a shattered reputation, no money and no better option than to embark as ship's medic on this violent, filthy, ill-fated voyage. In India during the Siege of Delhi, Sumner thought he had experienced the depths to which a man can stoop and imagined he'd find respite on the Volunteer, but now, trapped in the wooden belly of the ship with Drax, he encounters pure evil and is forced to act. As the true purposes of the expedition become clear, the confrontation between the two men plays out in the freezing darkness of an Arctic winter. 650 0 $a Whaling ships $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Arctic regions $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Suspense fiction. 650 0 $a Sea stories. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170706034337.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B5326D36A18B11E6AED112AEDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search