Kraken Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2001) When confronted with their lack

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With his final breath

flees abroad with her political refugee lover - but the America she finds is vastly different from the country she'd imagined

Kraken Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2001) When confronted with their lackIn the Darwin Centre at Londons Natural History Museum, Billy Harrow, a cephalopod specialist, is conducting a tour whose climax is meant to be the Centres prize specimen of a rare Architeuthis duxbetter known as the Giant Squid. But Billys tour takes an unexpected turn when the squid suddenly and impossibly vanishes into thin air. As Billy soon discovers, this is the precipitating act in a struggle to the death between mysterious but powerful forces