The Night Boat

The Night Boat

The Night Boat, Robert McCammonâ€™s third published novel, first appeared as a paperback original in 1980. Following on the heels of Baal and Bethanyâ€™s Sin, it offered further proof that a writer of great narrative power and limitless potentialâ€”a writer who would achieve a significant position in modern popular fictionâ€”had arrived.

The story begins with a vividly written prologue in which a German U-boatâ€”sometimes known as an â€œIron Coffinâ€â€”attacks an unsuspecting merchant vessel, and is itself attacked by a pair of Allied sub chasers. The action then shifts to the present day and to the idyllic Caribbean island of Coquina, where life is about to change in unimaginable ways. David Moore, a young man with a tragic and haunted past, is skin-diving in the waters off Coquina, searching for the salvageable remnants of shipwrecks. He accidentally detonates a long-unexploded depth charge, uncovering and releasing a submarine that has lain beneath those waters, virtually intact, for decades. The battered vessel that rises to the surface contains a bizarre and terrifying cargo that will transform a once peaceful island into a landscape of unrelenting nightmare.

The Night Boat is a story of cannibalism, ancient voodoo curses, and shambling, undead entities filled with a bottomless rage and an equally bottomless hunger. But it is also the story of a past that refuses to die, that lies in wait just beneath the surface of the unsuspecting present. Furiously paced and viscerally frightening, this horrific early gem is both an outstanding entertainment in its own right and a harbinger of the masterpieces to come.

Country	USA
Author	Robert McCammon
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781596065321
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Subterranean Press
Manufacturer	Subterranean Press
NumberOfPages	240
PublicationDate	2012-11-03
Publisher	Subterranean Press
ReleaseDate	2012-11-03
Studio	Subterranean Press

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