p8220Readers new to the work of Christopher Moore will want to know two things immediately. First Where has this guy been hiding Answer In plain sight, since he has a cult following.... He writes laid back fables straight out of Margaritaville, on the cusp of humor and science fiction.8221--Janet Maslin, New York Timesp pWhale researcher Nathan Quinn has a problem. It's not a new problem in fact, it's been around for nearly 20 million years. And Nate's spent most of his adult life working to solve it. You see, although everybody well, almost everybody knows that humpback whales sing outside of human composition, the most complex songs on the planet no one knows why. Nate, a Ph.D. in behavior biology, intends to discover the answer to this burning question--and soon.pp Every winter he and Clay Demolocus, his partner in the Maui Whale Research Foundation, ply the warm waters between the islands of Maui and Lanai, recording the eerily beautiful songs of the humpbacks and returning to thei