ISLAND 731 - Robinson, Jeremy

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Auteur(s) : Robinson, Jeremy

Editeur : St. Martin's Press

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/03/2013

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 384

Expédition : 461

Dimensions : 20.3 x 12.7 x 2.3

ISBN : 9781250162298

Résumé :

Robinson puts his distinctive mark on Michael Crichton territory with this terrifying present-day riff on The Island of Dr. Moreau... One of the best Jurassic Park successors. -Publishers Weekly, starred review

Mark Hawkins, former park ranger and expert tracker, is out of his element, working on board the Magellan, a research vessel studying the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. But his work is interrupted when, surrounded by thirty miles of refuse, the ship and its high tech systems are plagued by a series of strange malfunctions and the crew is battered by a raging storm.

When the storm fades and the sun rises, the beaten crew awakens to find themselves anchored in the protective cove of a tropical island...and no one knows how they got there. Even worse, the ship has been sabotaged, two crewman are dead and a third is missing. Hawkins spots signs of the missing man on shore and leads a small team to bring him back. But they quickly discover evidence of a brutal history left behind by the Island's former occupants: Unit 731, Japan's ruthless World War II human experimentation program. Mass graves and military fortifications dot the island, along with a decades old laboratory housing the remains of hideous experiments.
As crew members start to disappear, Hawkins realizes that they are not alone. In fact, they were brought to this strange and horrible island. The crew is taken one-by-one and while Hawkins fights to save his friends, he learns the horrible truth: Island 731 was never decommissioned and the person taking his crewmates may not be a person at all-not anymore.

Biographie:
JEREMY ROBINSON has published poetry, ?ction, and studies of J.R.R. Tolkien, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Hardy, Andr? Gide and D.H. Lawrence. Robinson has edited poetry books by Novalis, Ursula Le Guin, Friedrich H?lderlin, Francesco Petrarch, Dante Alighieri, Arseny Tarkovsky, and Rainer Maria Rilke. Books on film and animation include: The Akira Book ? The Art of Katsuhiro Otomo ? The Art of Masamune Shirow ? The Ghost In the Shell Book ? Fullmetal Alchemist ? Cowboy Bebop: The Anime and Movie ? The Cinema of Hayao Miyazaki ? Hayao Miyazaki: Pocket Guide ? Princess Mononoke: Pocket Movie Guide ? Spirited Away: Pocket Movie Guide ? Blade Runner and the Cinema of Philip K. Dick ? Blade Runner: Pocket Movie Guide ? The Cinema of Donald Cammell ? Performance: Donald Cammell: Nic Roeg: Pocket Movie Guide ? Pasolini: Il Cinema di Poesia/ The Cinema of Poetry ? Salo: Pocket Movie Guide ? The Trilogy of Life Movies: Pocket Movie Guide ? The Gospel According To Matthew: Pocket Movie Guide ? The Ecstatic Cinema of Tony Ching Siu-tung ? Tsui Hark: The Dragon Master of Chinese Cinema ? The Swordsman: Pocket Movie Guide ? A Chinese Ghost Story: Pocket Movie Guide ? Ken Russell: England's Great Visionary Film Director and Music Lover ? Tommy: Ken Russell: The Who: Pocket Movie Guide ? Women In Love: Ken Russell: D.H. Lawrence: Pocket Movie Guide ? The Devils: Ken Russell: Pocket Movie Guide ? Walerian Borowczyk: Cinema of Erotic Dreams ? The Beast: Pocket Movie Guide ? The Lord of the Rings Movies ? The Fellowship of the Ring: Pocket Movie Guide ? The Two Towers: Pocket Movie Guide ? The Return of the King: Pocket Movie Guide ? Jean-Luc Godard: The Passion of Cinema ? The Sacred Cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky ? Andrei Tarkovsky: Pocket Guide....

Sommaire:
Jeremy Robinson is the author of bestselling thrillers, including Antarktos Rising, The Last Hunter: Descent, The Didymus Contingency and the Jack Sigler Thrillers-Pulse, Instinct and Threshold. His novels have been translated into eight languages. Born in the coastal town of Beverly, Massachusetts, Robinson grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, and started out his creative career as a comic book and comic strip illustrator. He is the chairman and founder of New Hampshire AuthorFest, a non-profit organization promoting and supporting literacy in New Hampshire, where he lives with his wife and three children....