From the author of The Girl Who Stole an Elephant comes another brilliant escapade A thrilling adventure set in fictional Sri Lanka jampacked with peril and kidnap and a huge blue whale Razi a local fisherboy is watching turtle eggs hatch when he sees a boat bobbing into view With a chill he notices a small still hand hanging over the side Inside is Zheng whos escaped a shipwreck and is full of tales of sea monsters and missing treasure But the villains who are after Zheng are soon after Razi and his sister Shifa too And so begins an exhilarating adventure in the shadow of the biggest sea monster of them all