The Whiteness of the Whale: A Novel (45 page)

DAVID POYER
’s naval career included service in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Arctic, Caribbean, and Pacific. His thirty-plus books, including twenty sea novels, have been translated into Italian, Dutch, Japanese, and other languages. He’s also written sailing, diving, and nautical history articles for
Chesapeake Bay, Southern Boating, Shipmate, Tidewater Virginian,
and other periodicals. His work has been required reading in the Literature of the Sea course at the U.S. Naval Academy, along with that of Joseph Conrad and Herman Melville. He lives on the Eastern Shore of Virginia with his wife and daughter, with whom he explores the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic coast in their sloop,
Water Spirit.

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

THE WHITENESS OF THE WHALE.
Copyright © 2013 by David Poyer. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

www.stmartins.com

Cover design by James Iacobelli

Cover photographs: ocean © Aaron Foster; sailboat © Eunice Bergin/Getty Images; iceberg ©
Shutterstock.com

ISBN 978-1-250-02056-7 (hardcover)

e-ISBN 9781250020574

First Edition: April 2013