# In the Wet

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- Book: [In the Wet](https://www.bookquiver.com/nevil-shute/in-the-wet) ([In the Wet.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nevil-shute/in-the-wet.md))
- Authors: [Nevil Shute](https://www.bookquiver.com/nevil-shute)
- Publisher: Vintage Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0908-733-5
- Published: 2010-04-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

It is the rainy season. Drunk and delirious, an old man lies dying in the Queensland bush. In his opium-hazed last hours, a priest finds his deserted shack and listens to his last words. Half-awake and half-dreaming the old man tells the story of an adventure set decades in the future, in a very different world...