The Island
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 1980
Subjects: Fiction
Description: In the Caribbean, a few steps may lead from the sunlit villas of tanned lovers to something evil rotting in the tropical underbrush, from a world of natural perfumes and silken breezes to choking heat thick with the smell of death...

In the Caribbean, 610 seagoing boats and 2,000 innocent people have simply vanished... apparently lost forever. How could it happen? Why does no one know, or care?