The Night Boat (1980)

The Night Boat is a 1980 novel by Robert McCammon. It is about a marine salvage diver, David Moore, who uncovers a sunken U-boat underneath a Caribbean lagoon. The boat mysteriously rises to the surface, and the crew are revealed to be still alive.

Reception

Publishers Weekly, reviewing the 2013 reprint, praised its "vividly visceral scenes", but faulted it for "obvious twists", and plotlines that "fizzle" in a "rushed, anticlimactic ending". Don D'Ammassa considered it to be "the most gripping of McCammon's early novels"; however, literary scholar Neil McRobert found it to be "unrepresentative of McCammon's oeuvre" and "derivative of more successful fiction by (a) more established author."