Sea Hunter
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4.0 • 18 Ratings
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
David Hope, a charter captain in the British Virgin Islands, is a man severely shaken by personal loss and looking for nothing more than one last client to round out the season. At first it seems Sally Moffitt is his salvation. Beautiful and reckless, a filmmaker specializing in the mysteries of the deep, she meets David in a Tortola bar. Soon they are headed into the North Atlantic aboard Hope's catamaran Oona with a cache of “liberated” film equipment.
They encounter an an enormous dolphin of a species never seen, which presents the career opportunity of a lifetime for a nature documentarian. Pursuing the creature, which swims a relentless northeast course, they are hailed by the square rigged wind ship Star Of Alabama, a research vessel owned by the rich and powerful William Tree. Sally wants to keep her discovery for herself and David. But William Tree will not be put off, for he knows of a nightmare uncontained and all too real that is rising from the depths.
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This maritime escapade takes the same tack as Garrison's Buried at Sea, a wave-tossed thriller, but drifts into becalmed waters. Grief-stricken after scattering his former lover's ashes at sea, journalist-turned-sailor David Hope is rushing back to Tortola in the Leewards (where he ekes out a living chartering his catamaran, Oona, to scuba-diving tourists) when he sees a dolphin as large as a killer whale. Arriving back in Tortola, Hope finds his much-needed end-of-the-season charter which was to provide the money for long-overdue boat repairs has canceled. Serendipitously, he is approached by Sally Moffitt, an underwater filmmaker intent on making a film on the breeding habits of short-snouted spinner dolphins. She charters his boat, and they scarcely make it out to sea when they encounter the giant dolphin. After the sighting, they are invited aboard a huge, anachronistic sailing vessel owned by a wealthy naturalist, Bill Tree, who is doing suspicious research on dolphins. While they're aboard, Tree bugs the Oona so he can eavesdrop on Hope and Moffitt, and all are led north by the dolphin, which is soon revealed to be a "killphin," programmed for a mission of doom. Garrison has a knack for snappy dialogue, and his characters are lively creations, even when they're stereotypes (the massively fat Tree is a classic over-the-top James Bond villain). But as Hope and Moffitt predictably become lovers and the repetitive plot blurs into a mind-numbing sea chase, waterlogged readers will long for dry land.
