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Mark Hawkins, a former park ranger turned tracker, finds his expertise put to the test aboard the Magellan, a research vessel probing the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. After a violent storm devastates the ship’s systems and cabin, the crew wakes to find themselves inexplicably anchored near a lush tropical cove. With the ship sabotaged, two crewmen dead and one missing, Hawkins leads a rescue team onto the shore, only to discover evidence of a brutal history: the island had once housed Japan’s Unit 731, a World War II human‑experimentation program. Mass graves, military fortifications, and an abandoned laboratory filled with remnants of horrific trials point to a present‑day menace. As crew members vanish one by one, Hawkins realizes the island’s past is not only alive but actively hunting them.
First publish date: 2013
Genre: Suspense/General Suspense
Authors: Jeremy Robinson
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