It was supposed to be a relaxing vacation for a hard-working lawyer and his wife, but one slip and what begins as an adventure quickly becomes terrifying. When Mitch Gordon opens his eyes to find his wife missing in the middle of the ocean, he panics. He is seventy miles from Tahiti on a forty-foot ketch and there is no sign of help. Join Hank Searls, the creator of Jaws 2 and Jaws the Revenge, in this beautiful but frightening tale of love, trust, and survival.

"He had a brain biologically identical to man's but seven times its weight and volume," writes Hank Searls of a massive, aging sperm whale whose compassion, fear, and anger at man's attacks on his kind drives the bestselling novelist's intricately researched classic Sounding. The young sonar officer of an accidentally sunken Russian spy submarine teetering on a rocky seamount off New York prepares to die with the lovely ship's surgeon and the rest of his shipmates. Everyone has lost hope--until they hear the whales sounding above. Once a Cetacean epic told the tale of man and whale...