Fluke

Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

By Christopher Moore
(Harper Paperbacks, Paperback, 9780060566685, 336pp.)

Publication Date: May 27, 2004

Other Editions of This Title: eBook, Prebound (June 2004), Audio Cassette (June 2003), Hardcover (June 2003)

Categories: Humorous

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Just why do humpback whales sing? That's the question that has marine behavioral biologist Nate Quinn and his crew poking, charting, recording, and photographing very big, wet, gray marine mammals. Until the extraordinary day when a whale lifts its tail into the air to display a cryptic message spelled out in foot-high letters: Bite me.

Trouble is, Nate's beginning to wonder if he hasn't spent just a little too much time in the sun. 'Cause no one else on his team saw a thing -- not his longtime partner, Clay Demodocus; not their saucy young research assistant; not even the spliff-puffing white-boy Rastaman Kona (né Preston Applebaum). But later, when a roll of film returns from the lab missing the crucial tail shot -- and his research facility is trashed -- Nate realizes something very fishy indeed is going on.

By turns witty, irreverent, fascinating, puzzling, and surprising, Fluke is Christopher Moore at his outrageous best.




About the Author

Christopher Moore is the author of eleven other novels including Bloodsucking Fiends, The Stupidest Angel, and Island of the Sequined Love Nun.

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