A review by nigellicus
Ahab's Return: or, The Last Voyage by Jeffrey Ford

5.0

A writer of hokum for a disreputable New York publication teams up with Captain Ahab who has returned home after wrestling with Moby Dick to find himself the subject of a novel which has cast him as a figure of myth, to find Ahab's missing son. Gabriel is is a member of an army of child criminals kept loyal to their master, the strange and horrible Malbaster, through the administration of opium. Aided by a motley assortment of allies, Harrow and Ahab do battle with Malbaster and his terrible assassin and pet monster on the streets of 18th century New York.