Webb Fallon is down to five dollars and a quart of Scotch, jilted and fired from the Los Angeles Observer, and spending the afternoon playing volleyball at Santa Monica Beach. Then the sea begins to give up creatures no one has seen before, and Fallon, with the scientist Bjarnsson, tries to learn whether nature or wartime enemies are behind them.
Fast, hard-boiled early Brackett from Astonishing Stories, 1942, with its wartime attitudes intact. Download the free EPUB.