Quint

Publisher's Review 

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, 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.

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 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. 

In this vivid and utterly compelling masterpiece, Robert Lautner reimagines the life of a truly iconic character.

‘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

‘Thrilling, brutal, poetic, literary and irresistible, one of the 21st century’s first great 20th-century American novels' - LOUISA YOUNG

'Uncannily brilliant… a book to be swallowed whole' - EVIE WYLD

‘Excellent… a profound portrait of a life dislocated by war and violence’ - THE TIMES