The first book in a new series of seafaring creature feature novellas, William Meikle’s Sea Hunters: Shonisaurus is a briskly-paced, action-packed blast of oceanic monster-hunting fun. Ex-Royal Navy lieutenant John Seton and his motley crew are international monster hunters-for-hire, and when they’re commissioned to hunt down the beast that destroyed a handful of multi-million-dollar yachts, it seems like a simple job given their skills and expertise. This beast might not be John’s great white whale, the obsession that has driven him ever onwards since his fateful departure from the Navy, but a job’s a job and the money’s good. It’s only once they’re in the thick of the action, however, that they realise their quarry might not make this an easy hunt after all.
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