A reality TV show has hired the Trident, a long-range research vessel, and a cast of ambitious scientists. Tiny, unexplored Henders Island might be just the drama the pushy director is looking for. But when the first scientists set foot on Henders, there's more drama than anyone could imagine as a terrifying test of survival begins. When they reach the island's shores, scientists are utterly unprepared for what they find -- creatures unlike any ever recorded. This is not a lost world but the Earth as it might have looked ...
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A reality TV show has hired the Trident, a long-range research vessel, and a cast of ambitious scientists. Tiny, unexplored Henders Island might be just the drama the pushy director is looking for. But when the first scientists set foot on Henders, there's more drama than anyone could imagine as a terrifying test of survival begins. When they reach the island's shores, scientists are utterly unprepared for what they find -- creatures unlike any ever recorded. This is not a lost world but 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 even more shocking: among the terrors of Henders Island, one life form defies any and all scientific theory. It must be saved at all cost.
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Warren Fahy pushes the theory of evolution to it's breaking point with his debut environmental thriller, Fragment. The book opens with the Trident, a 182 foot exploration ship scheduled to circle the globe in a year long journey to film a new cable reality show, Sea Life. At first the show's ratings soar but due to a series of storms, filming comes to a halt and the ratings go flat. That is until the crew stumbles onto a distress signal from a ship, one that has been lost for over three years. Nell Duckworth, the Trident's botanist is familiar with the area. She tells the crew that the island where the distress signal seems to be coming from has only been sighted three times in the past 200 years, with only one recorded landing in 1791. Cynthea, the producer of the reality show questions pursing the signal but as her career has had some bad breaks she sees this as a way to get it back on track. From this point on you might start to second guess the plot and think the the book is taking on a Jurassic Park theme but what Fahy hatches next is not a creation of man but of nature run amok.
This book is the perfect read to escape with. I'd love to see Fragment as the next summer blockbuster. But for those naysayers who want more complex characters, more subplots, more whatever; your better off finding another book to read... but before you go would you please pass the popcorn? This book is too good to put down.