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The Night Boat

By: Robert R. McCammon
Narrated by: Ray Porter
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Summary

The Night Boat, Robert McCammon's third published novel, first appeared as a paperback original in 1980. Following on the heels of Baal and Bethany's Sin, it offered further proof that a writer of great narrative power and limitless potential - a writer who would achieve a significant position in modern popular fiction--had arrived.

The story begins with a vividly written prologue in which a German U-boat--sometimes known as an 'Iron Coffin'--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.

©1980 Robert R. McCammon (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

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accents all over the place

Very average - the Matthew Corbett series is much better. This was the equivalent of a b movie. Porter is usually a good narrator but on this occasion the accents were all over the place.

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I will describe this book in the same way I described it to a colleague one afternoon: Nazi Voodoo Vampires. The story is a weird mishmash of ridiculous pulp horror ideas with some attempt at serious story telling.

- Honestly, I didn't particularly care about any of the characters. The author attempts to give them backstories and purpose but it doesn't really fit together well.

- I'll give The Night Boat some credit, there were some legitably creepy and scary bits but after the monsters are revealed it kinda became boring and disjointed.

- The audiobook redeems the material somewhat with excellent narration from Porter. He could read the dictionary and make it sound amazing.

If you like almost silly pulp horror, then maybe give this a try but I wouldn't say it's an essential read.

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Good old fashioned hokum

A bit of the Fog and a bit of the Abyss plus some Black Snow and you’ve a not bad novel….of it’s time though! I read this all those years ago and it was genuinely scary..defiantly up there with Herbert and King..worth a revisit..

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