Fluke

By: Christopher Moore

Narrated by: Bill Irwin

Marine biologist Nate Quinn is in love with the majestic ocean-dwelling behemoths who have been singing their haunting song for twenty million years. But why do the humpback whales sing? That's the question that has Nate and his crew filming, charting, and recording every whale that crosses their path. Until one day when a whale lifts its tail to display a message spelled out in foot-high letters: Bite Me....

No one has ever seen such a thing; not Nate's longtime partner, not world-renowned photographer Clay Demodocus, not their saucy young research assistant, Amy, not even spliff-puffing white-boy Rastaman, Kona. And when the film returns from the lab missing the crucial tail shot--and their research facility is trashed--Nate realizes that something very fishy is going on.

It only gets weirder when a call comes in from Nate's big-bucks benefactor, saying that a whale has phoned her, asking for a hot pastrami and Swiss on rye. Suddenly the answer to the question that has driven Nate throughout his adult life is within reach. And it's not what anyone would think.

©2003 Christopher Moore; (P)2006 HarperCollins Publishers

I laughed so hard I had tears running down my leg.

Funny and inspiring. makes me want a life as an action nerd and become a pirate..

Love Christopher Moore, hate the narrator.

If you're anything like me and you love Christopher Moores books, especially on Audible, then you love the goofiness, and the fun of the books as well as the story and you love the way that it is told. All of Moores other stories are told with fantastic narratives...while this story is still great, our narrator is terrible, bland and just doesn't give the listener the Christopher Moore vibe. Just a heads up. Still a great book, the reader of the story just sucks.:/

Most awesome!

I own this book in print, disc, and now audible. It is improved by the narrator, whom I believe might have been a Rastafarian in a former life. It is not only a great escapist fantasy but a text in whale study. Great fun.

Not necessarily better the second time around

I’ve been revisiting all the Christopher Moore books and a few have not been better the second time around. This is another title that feels much too wordy to me in my dotage. A good subject and story but too cluttered.

Another awesome book from Christopher Moore

A great fantastical romp all based around amazing creatures we know so little about, and encapsulating a powerful message. And I quote, "shut up, and stop killing whales!"