I had a flu virus in January. It knocked me out for most of the New Year. To be honest I’ve only ever had the OG flu once in my 20’s and, if you’ve had it, you know that death is actually more preferable but this was pretty bad. Consequence was, for this year, I kind of missed my publication of the paperback version of my novel Quint for Jan 16th.

However I’m overjoyed to say that, by the Gods, the Amazon Kindle edition of Quint is available for the month of Feb for…and get this… only 99p for the whole month.

So if you didn’t buy it in hardback (and I can’t stand those) and you didn’t buy it in paperback (which sits real pretty in a pocket or neatly on your bedside table or the place above in your nook) it reads nicely well on that device you neglect from time to time.

What I put into it has been rewarded by the JAWS fans (and the heathen) to be the book that was almost missing from the JAWS story and its lore. But don’t take my word for it! Listen:

‘QUINT is more than an uncannily brilliant impersonation of voice, it’s a story that feels like it was there from the start. This is a book to be swallowed whole’ EVIE WYLD

‘Excellent… a profound portrait of a life dislocated by war and violence’ THE TIMES, Best Summer Reads

‘Lautner … has carved out the literary missing link between Moby Dick and The Old Man and the Sea, and gone a long way to putting some of the balls back into serious English fiction’ Giles Coren, THE TIMES

‘Whisky-soaked, guttural, stinking and funny’ Evie Wyld, OBSERVER

‘QUINT brilliantly deconstructs a savage archetype that is scarce in today’s sanitised world… if Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea was doused in whiskey and strained through the gills of a tiger shark, it would not sound dissimilar… one of this year’s literary miracles’ IRISH INDEPENDENT

‘Clear your diary. Strong, silent Quint is going to tell you his story ― and it’s the bastard child of WW2 and Moby Dick, the sweet spot between thrilling, brutal adventure and the poetic voice of the American working man, as if Raymond Chandler were a veteran deep-sea fisherman, steeped in Steinbeck and sneering at Hemingway… thrilling, brutal, poetic, literary and irresistible, one of the 21st century’s first great 20th-century American novels’ LOUISA YOUNG

‘An act of literary ventriloquism… uncanny… one of the most surprising literary miracles I’ve come across in a long time’ Hilary White, RTÉ

‘Highly enjoyable, and a must-read for any Jaws officionado’ BUZZ magazine

‘I loved its urgent voice, its layering of such a complex character, and its deft handling of the uncanny valley between Benchley’s character and Robert Shaw’s enduring screen portrayal’ SCOTTISH FIELD

99p for Feb. Come on and help a brother out.