A nineteenth-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, and brutal. Henry Drax is a harpooner on the Volunteer, a Yo...
“This is Dickens in the present tense, Dickens for the twenty-first century.” -- Roddy Doyle, The New York Times Book ReviewAn Irishman in nineteenth-century England is forced to take sides when his nephew joins the bloody underground moveme...