| The Night Boat | |
| Author: | Robert McCammon |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Horror |
| Publisher: | Avon Books |
| Published: | 1980 |
| Pages: | 350 |
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.[1]
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".[2] Don D'Ammassa considered it to be "the most gripping of McCammon's early novels";[3] 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."[4]