From BooklistA research vessel studying the effects of sea life around the Great Pacific Garbage Patch lands in a storm, and the ship and crew find themselves on a mysterious island. They have no memory of how they were stranded, and evidence of sabotage makes the stituation all the stranger. Mark Hawkins leads the survivors on a trek to find answers, but they start vanishing one by one. It soon becomes apparent that the ship and crew were brought to this island for a reason, and the truththere are crazed scientists on the island, and you know what horrific stuff they docould destroy their lives forever. Take a traditional haunted-house tale and throw in a little Island of Dr. Moreau and a touch of Clash of the Titans, and you wind up with this scary and grotesque novel. Robinson, a skilled blender of the thriller and horror genres, has another winner on his hands. --Jeff Ayers Robinson puts his distinctive mark on Michael Crichton territory with this terrifying present-day riff on The Island of Dr. Moreau. Action and scientific explanation are appropriately proportioned, making this one of the best Jurassic Park successors. Publishers Weekly (starred review)Take a traditional haunted-house tale and throw in a little Island of Dr. Moreau and a touch of Clash of the Titans and you wind up with this scary and grotesque novel. Robinson, a skilled blender of the thriller and horror genres, has another winner on his hands. BooklistThe premise is reminiscent of H.G. Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau, but the author adds a World War II back story...vivisection, genetic engineering, Black Ops, animal husbandry, and mayhem. This is the stuff that comic books, video games, and successful genre franchises are made of. Kirkus sA book full of adventure and suspense that shows science' in a whole new horrific light. This is one creepy tale that will keep you up all night! And it is so well written you will think twice before taking a vacation to any so-called Island Paradise!' Suspense MagazineAbout the AuthorJeremy Robinson is the author of bestselling thrillers, including Secondworld, The Last Hunter: Descent, Project Nemesis, and the Jack Sigler thrillers, including Threshold and Ragnarok. His novels have been translated into ten languages. Born in the coastal town of Beverly, Massachusetts, Robinson grew up on a steady diet of seacoast exploration and science fiction, and began his creative career as a comic book illustrator and screenwriter. He now lives in New Hampshire with his wife and three children. Visit Robinson's website for free content, contests, and updates on upcoming projects. what is the most sold item Island 731: A Thriller
39 of 41 people found the following review helpful. By far Jeremy Robinson's best novel to dateBy William LorenzI have been a long time fan of Jeremy Robinson's novels. I read and loved 'Antarktos Rising' and 'Beneath' back when they were first published. Yet his new novel, 'Island 731', showcases just how far his writing has come since then.'Island 731' starts with a bang and doesn't lay off the throttle for the remainder of the book. This book is a nonstop blend of action, suspense, horror and real-life science. I was constantly checking Google to see if what he was describing was actually based on fact - and over and over, I was shocked to find it was (for example, the number '731' refers to an actual Japanese operation in WWII - look it up!).Mark Hawkins, a former tracker in Yellowstone, becomes shipwrecked on an uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean. As he and the crew begin to explore the island, they uncover hideous experiments left over from a Japanese Research Base from WWII. Yet all is not as it seems on this island and the twist at the end is spectacular.Jeremy Robinson has invented a tropical paradise in 'Island 731' - yet a paradise with a sinister past. Robinson has conceived some fantastic creatures, described with perfect detail, that will give you goose bumps, again and again. One scene late in the novel, when the BFSs are introduced, is one of the most suspenseful scenes I've read in a long time.A great new character has also been introduced in 'Island 731'. The ending was set up in a way that almost guarantees a sequel. Who knows?! Maybe Mark Hawkins can team up with Jack Sigler in the future!9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Robinson nails it again!By Wim BiemansI started reading Jeremy Robinson with books like Antarktos Rising and Kronos. I thought they were pretty interesting, but then came the Chess Team novels and they were great. With the Chess Team novellas Robinson completely redefined what a novella is supposed to be. And SecondWorld and Project Nemesis were even better. All this to let you know that I started in Island 731 with pretty high expectations... But even I wasn't prepared for this!! Island 731 is all you could hope for if you like excitement, monsters and science gone haywire. The story reminded me a bit of the Deadworld novels by Harry Harrison that I read as a teenager. Or more recently, of Warren Fahy's Fragment. But Island 731 is in a class of its own. The characters are great, the action just never stops, the humor is a blast and reading the book is like watching an extremely well-made B-monster movie. This book just grabs you by the throat and never lets go! Clearly, Robinson is getting better with every new novel he turns out and I can't want to get my hands on the next one.A side note for book lovers: although I love to touch and hold physical books, I'm slowly switching to reading ebooks, if only because I'm running out of space... But Jeremy Robinson's books are made with a great love for books and that shows! The covers are gorgeous, the paper is of very fine quality and that only enhances the whole reading experience. Which is why for a lot of authors I've switched from hardcovers to paperbacks to ebooks. But with Robinson, I found myself switching to hardcovers because I just wanted to hold and own the physical book and didn't want to wait for a paperback.So, if you've never read Jeremy Robinson, do yourself a favor and give one of his books a try. Island 731 would be a very fine introduction indeed!!1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A good book for a monster fixBy scikaijuThis book is officially listed as book zero in author Jeremy Robinson's Project Nemesis series of books. But it is also a stand alone tale in and of itself, so you really don't need to read any of the the other Nemesis books to enjoy this one as it features none of that series initial characters and back drops.But on to the story itself. It begins with one Matt Hawkin, a former Park Ranger who quit because of an incident where he for got to respect nature, is part of a high seas scientific expedition in what is effectively a floating garbage dump, as it's crew tries to find evidence to show the environmental and biological effects such an environment is having. All is normal until a sudden storm as they lose a shipmate mysteriously and one dies and find themselves pretty much marooned on a uncharted island. But it's soon evident that they are not alone on this island as some strange thing none can readily identify takes the dead body and another crew member later. Matt and his friends soon learn more about the island and it's connection to a Japanese project the specialized in horrible experiments during WW2.The story itself is pretty entertaining. it was very suspenseful and had a couple of twists that I didn't see coming. always a good thing. all of the characters are pretty well defined and the heroes are quite likable. The descriptions of the various creatures on the island were very thorough and helped with the picturing in my head. It did make me see what was coming next. Of course, if you're like me and didn't realize this was a prequel and read the official second book in the series (Project: Maigo) and you know the fate of at least one of the characters before hand. But despite that there was still enough going on I wanted to see what was coming next. so a good job there. There are a couple of cliffhangers at the end, well maybe one and a half since one of them, a cat girl named Lily laid some eggs. But the full one in that is being covered in the third book Project: 731.It's a good book It's part of a connected universe but it is a stand alone as I said. I would recommend.