BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Shark Drunk is in part the tale of two men in a very small boat on the trail of a very big fish It is also a story of obsession enchantment & adventure A love song to the sea in all its mystery hardship wonder & life-giving majesty In the great depths surrounding the remote Lofoten islands in Norway lives the Greenland shark Twenty-six feet in length & weighing more than a tonne it can live for 200 years Its fluorescent green parasite-covered eyes are said to hypnotise its prey & its meat is so riddled with poison that when consumed it sends people into a hallucinatory trance Armed with little more than their wits & a tiny rubber boat Morten Stroksnes & his friend Hugo set out in pursuit of this enigmatic creature Together they tackle existential questions experience the best & worst nature can throw at them & explore the astonishing life teeming at the ocean's depths