num_pages: 356
description: In this powerhouse of suspenseas brilliantly imagined as Jurassic Park and The Ruinsscientists have made a startling discovery: a fragment of a lost continent an island with an ecosystem unlike any theyve 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 Hendersand the ultimate test of survival begins . . .For when they reach the islands shores scientists are utterly unprepared for what they findcreatures 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 theoryand must be saved at any cost. International Thriller Writers nominee Best First Novel
language: English
title: Fragment
publisher: Delacorte Press