**This is a riveting and disturbing account of the medical atrocities performed in and around Japan during WWII.** Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, antiseptic medical wards in obscure parts of the continent. Far from front lines
Island 731
โ Scribed by Jeremy Robinson
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press;Thomas Dunne Books
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 199 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
"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...
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