Sea Wolf - Version 2

Wolf Larsen is not merely a villain. He is a storm wearing a man's shape, a philosopher king of the seas whose brutal logic cuts cleaner than the knives in his galley. When the refined literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden washes aboard the Ghost after a ferry disaster, he enters a world where civilization is a luxury the ocean cannot sustain. What follows is part psychological thriller, part philosophical duel, and part primal struggle for survival. Larsen makes no secret of his contempt for weakness, yet he finds something in the prissy critic that both irritates and absorbs him. As the ship cuts through fog and fury toward San Francisco, two men test each other's will in a confrontation that forces the question: what remains of a man when all the comforts of society fall away? London wrote this novel with the authority of someone who had lived the sea's brutality, and it shows in every crashing wave and hard-won insight. For readers who want their adventures to think and their thinkers to bleed.