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    Island 731
    Island 731
    Island 731
    Audiobook10 hours

    Island 731

    Written by Jeremy Robinson

    Narrated by RC Bray

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    About this audiobook

    Mark Hawkins, former park ranger and expert tracker, is out of his element, working onboard 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 crewmen are dead, and a third is missing. Hawkins spots signs of the missing man onshore and leads a small team to bring him back. But they quickly discover evidence of a brutal history left behind by the island’s former occupants: Unit 731, Japan’s ruthless World War II human experimentation program. Mass graves and military fortifications dot the island, along with a decades-old laboratory housing the remains of hideous experiments.

    As more crew members start to disappear, Hawkins realizes that they are not alone. In fact, he suspects they were brought  to this strange and horrible island. The crew is taken one by one, and while Hawkins fights to save his friends, he learns the horrible truths: Island 731 was never decommissioned and the person taking his crewmates may not be a person at all—not anymore.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMar 26, 2013
    ISBN9781455891948
    Island 731
    Author

    Jeremy Robinson

    Jeremy Robinson is the author of several bestselling thrillers, including Antarktos Rising, The Last Hunter: Descent, Callsign: Deep Blue, and the Jack Sigler thrillers, including Instinct and Threshold. His novels have been translated into ten languages. Born in the coastal town of Beverly, Massachusetts, Robinson grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, and started out his creative career as a comic book illustrator. He now lives in New Hampshire with his wife and three children. Visit Robinson online at jeremyrobin sononline.com for free content, contests, and updates on upcoming projects. Connect with him on Facebook at facebook.com/sciencethriller, and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/jrobinsonauthor.

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    • 4/5
      An interesting monster book , nothing really new here but it's enjoyable all the same
    • 5/5
      Kept my interest throughout book Would recommend as great thriller
    • 5/5
      It’s does not disappoint!. It’s fast paced and thrilling. It’s one that you won’t want to put down!.
    • 2/5
      Less outrageous creatures, I was looking for a bio thriller not a horror movie.
    • 5/5
      I enjoyed all the non stop action in this book. It was very entertaining.
    • 5/5
      This book has the perfect mix of surprise, horror, and heroics. I loved it!
    • 4/5
      I must admit it's pretty nuts, but a whole bunch of fun. Really enjoyed it.
    • 2/5
      It was okay, not what I expected that's for sure.
    • 4/5
      Entertaining and fast paced. Finally something that kept my interest. Something different. Narrator was excellent
    • 5/5
      Freaky thriller had me hooked! Glad I chanced it, well worth a listen!
    • 5/5
      This was great! Really enjoyed listening to this. Like a movie
    • 2/5
      Bizarre Crichton wanna-be, with typos, constant action, and a protag that gets out of things that would kill james Bond. The science is good, but Robinson gives it overkill and it becomes over the top. This would have been a better book if the master himself (Crichton) had written it.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Yet again, Robinson - already one of the greatest authors currently writing - outdoes even himself.

      We open in WWII, where we get a sense of what is to transpire throughout the book. After the opener, we find ourselves in the middle of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch aboard the Magellan... about to be eaten by a shark!

      It never really lets up from there, though when the crew of the Magellan finds a pillbox inscribed with "731", anyone who has heard of the real-life Unit 731 of the Empire of Japan during WWII automatically has a skin-crawl moment.

      Robinson has written of chimeras before, but never before has he based a story around such an atrocious real world event - and he even gives a real world history lesson during the course of the book.

      Just when you think the book is winding down and all the monsters are revealed, you get a plot twist you never see coming. Then the surprises are over, right? Not at all. Indeed, Robinson keeps them coming right until the very last word of this masterpiece.

      If you've never read Jeremy before, pick this up - you won't be disappointed.
    • 1/5
      I rated the book slightly higher until the end of disc 6 when I nearly kicked it to the curb. The only thing that kept me till the end was a morbid curiosity as to which few characters would be allowed to survive. Sympathetic characters was Robinson's only strength, and Bray's reading also helped. (Though it didn't come close to Bray's masterful reading of The Martian.) Half the science was lifted wholesale from the non-fiction book Plastic Ocean, and Robinson's fictionalization does nothing to promote the real issues. Plot and action were cheesy and unbelievable all the way through.

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    • 3/5
      This is a pretty good monster story with a little bit of conspiracy thrown in. For me, it dragged a little in the middle where monsters kept biting off heads and chewing up the red shirts. The characters were very interesting and the theme fascinating. The book felt somewhat like young adult to me. That said, I think that I'll try another in the series.
    • 4/5
      Reading like a Creighton novel, this one is hard to put down until the very end
    • 5/5
      Robinson packed this title with so many intense action scenes filled with creatures that I hope someday make it to the big screen, and possibly a toy store ... hint hint :0)
    • 4/5
      Younger male adults will love it. It's really well-written, very imaginative, and a definite Kaiju hit!
    • 4/5
      This is a real page-turner. Robinson accelerates quickly and stays on the throttle for the whole book. Even though the pacing never lets up, it doesn't get monotonous or out of hand, nor do the scientific explanations break the pacing. I recently read a sci-fi book by john Ringo and Travis Taylor that had my eyes glazing over with a physics lesson that went on too long. I like a good science lesson, but not at the cost of the pacing and the story's momentum. Robinson doesn't make this mistake.This is a good book for action, monsters, and mad scientist.