Island by Peter Benchley

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Author: Peter Benchley
Media: Paperback
ISBN: 0553133969

"Island" may leave you feeling stranded...

"The Island" is yet another caribbean-based adventure tale of which Peter Benchley is so adept at weaving. The plot is fresh and original enough: a reporter takes his son on a working vacation as he tries to unravel the mystery behind an alarming amount of boat disappearances in the area of Navidad island, and ends up the captive of a band of pirates descended from the actual French renegade 17th century pirate L'olonois. The buccaneers live as they have for more than 300 years and their customs and brutalities are severe indeed. Maynard (the reporter) must devise an escape and rescue his son, whom the pirates have adopted as one of their own, before it is too late. Clean in prose and thoroughly researched, "The Island" is still a stylistic departure from Benchley's other works as it pits man against man rather than the unpredictable variances of the sea. The pirates dialoge is at time hard to follow and the action somewhat clicheic, yet overall the novel is a fine read and very entertaining. Not to par with Benchley's better known works (i.e., Jaws, The Deep) though definitely worthy of attention. - an Amazon customer review

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