The Island
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3.5 • 2 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Propulsive, terrifying, and blade-sharp, The Island is the next thrilling adventure from the mastermind behind the award-winning global sensation The Chain, and a family story unlike any you've read yet.
You should not have come to the island.
You should not have been speeding.
You should not have tried to hide the body.
You should not have told your children that you could keep them safe.
No one can run forever . . .
'a breathless and confronting ride' Sydney Morning Herald
'a tense, pacy page-turner' The Guardian
'Sure to please readers who love pacy, suspenseful survivalist adventures' Weekend Australia
'The Island certainly gets the blood pumping and the pages turning as it races to its dramatic conclusion' Canberra Weekly
'The tension is palpable. The plot is twisted and claustrophobic. McKinty snatches you early and doesn't let you escape until the very last page' Good Reading
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Adrian McKinty, author of the wildly popular The Chain, returns with another terrifying thriller. While on a family getaway to Australia, widowed doctor Tom Baxter and his new wife, Heather, hope to get some much-needed bonding time with Tom’s kids, Olivia and Owen. But curiosity turns their fun adventure into a deadly nightmare when they visit the remote Dutch Island, where they’re pitted against a brutal, lawless family that’s been living there in isolation. McKinty escalates the Baxters’ ordeal at an unfathomable pace, turning a seemingly hopeless situation into a Die Hard–style fight for survival in the Australian wilderness. A good old-fashioned white-knuckle action adventure, The Island will make a great movie.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Deliverance meets The Road Warrior in this harrowing survival thriller set in Australia from bestseller McKinty (The Chain). Heather, a 24-year-old Seattle massage therapist, has recently married surgeon Tom Baxter, a widower who's 20 years her senior. She's also taken on the responsibility of caring for Tom's children, 14-year-old Olivia and 12-year-old Owen. Olivia and Owen view Heather as "too young to be a real mom," and Heather agrees. When Tom is invited to give the keynote speech at a medical conference in Melbourne, he packs up the family, saying they can make a mini vacation of the trip. Given the incessant demands of the kids to see koalas and kangaroos, Tom agrees to pay an exorbitant sum to take a ferry to a small private island, which turns out to be the home of the unsavory O'Neil family. A penknife Heather received as a gift from an Aboriginal man on the mainland comes in handy after an accidental road death leads the vengeful O'Neils to target the Baxters. How Heather and the children wind up pooling their abilities to stay alive against all odds makes for an exhilarating ride. McKinty is a master of suspense.
