''The Night Boat'' is a 1980 novel by Robert McCammon. It is about a

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diver, Robert Moore, who uncovers a sunken U-boat underneath a

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lagoon. The boat mysteriously rises to the surface, and the crew are revealed to be still alive.https://www.robertmccammon.com/novels/the_night_boat.html RmC

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".The Night Boat
reviewed at '' Publishers Weekly''; published January 7, 2013; retrieved September 11, 2019 Don D'Ammassa considered it to be "the most gripping of McCammon's early novels";McCammon, Robert
in ''Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction'', by Don D'Ammassa, published 2014 by

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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()."Lost Souls of Horror and the Gothic: Fifty-Four Neglected Authors, Actors, Artists and Others
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References

1980 American novels Novels set in the Caribbean Avon (publisher) books {{1980s-novel-stub