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An unexplored island...a discovery that could shape the fate of mankind...
Delacorte
June 2009
On Sale: June 16, 2009
Featuring: Nell Duckworth
384 pages
ISBN: 0553807536
EAN: 9780553807530
Hardcover
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Thriller Paranormal - Supernatural | Fiction Adventure
In this powerhouse of suspenseβas brilliantly imagined as Jurassic Park and The Ruinsβscientists have made a startling discovery: a fragment of a lost continent, an island with an ecosystem unlike any theyβve seen before . . . an ecosystem that could topple ours like a house of cards. The time is now. The place is the Trident, a long-range research vessel hired by the reality TV show Sealife. Aboard is a cast of ambitious young scientists. With a director dying for drama, tiny Henders Island might be just what the show needs. Until the first scientist sets foot on Hendersβand the ultimate test of survival begins . . . For when they reach the islandβs shores, scientists are utterly unprepared for what they findβcreatures unlike any ever recorded in natural history. This is not a lost world frozen in time, an island of mutants, or a lab where science has gone mad: this is the Earth as it might have looked after evolving on a separate path for half a billion years. Soon the scientists will stumble on something more shocking than anything humanity has ever encountered: because among the terrors of Henders Island, one life form defies any scientific theoryβand must be saved at any cost.
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