John Ironmonger

When a young man washes up on the sands of St Piran in Cornwall, he is quickly rescued by the villagers. What they don't know is that Joe Haak is a city analyst who has fled London, fearing he may - inadvertently - have caused a global financial collapse. Is the end of the world really nigh, and what of the whale that lurks in the bay?

Maximilian Ponder shut himself away for thirty years in an attempt to record every memory he ever had. Now he lies dead, surrounded by his magnum opus - The Catalogue. But before his friend Adam Last can call the police and inform them of Max's death, one rather gruesome task remains in order for Max's project to be complete…