London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1964
New York, Simon and Schuster, 1964 (as Sweeney's Island)
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Book Details:Paperback edition published by Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1966. Sleeve notes:A luxury cruise in the South Pacific comes abruptly to a halt when the yacht catches fire and sinks, leaving all the passengers marooned on an island totally isolated and inhabited only by the animals and birds one would expect. Or so it seems until they find the first of the freaks: a rat with two heads is seen, a lobster with one grossly over-developed claw, deformed pigs, mutated monkeys. And if some unseen agent on the island can transform its animal life, what effect will it have on a party of human intruders, beyond all hope of rescue and free from all the restrictions of morality? Book Source:Terry Jenkins |
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Book Details:Hardback edition published by Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1964. First edition. Sleeve notes:In his new novel, this master of story-telling takes what seems at first to be a stock situation - a group of people marooned on a desert island - and turns it into a gripping and increasingly tense drama. Millionaire Sweeney has invited a selected assortment of his acquaintances for a luxury cruise in the South Seas. Soon after they land for a picnic on an island hundreds of miles from anywhere, the yacht goes up in smoke. Now, surprisingly, Sweeney abdicates from both power and responsibility. Tensions rapidly develop among the rest under the stresses of this strange island existence. Strange indeed, with the cloud perpetually brooding over Mount Proteus, the weird shapes of fauna and flora. To what end will these fears and tensions bring them? Is there any one of the company with a clear sense of moral values and strength to uphold them? Will Sweeney himself be content to remain aloof and impassive spectator of the drama he has created? Book Source:Solihull Libraries |
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Book Details:Paperback edition published by Fawcett Crest, New York, 1967. First printing. Sleeve notes:An eccentric millionaire . . . A fabulous yacht . . . A shipwreck . . . A group of wealthy, sophisticated Londoners stranded on a weird, deserted island . . . What happens when desperation and terror strip men and women of their civilized veneer? What happens when the struggle for survival unleashes the primitive animal that lives within us all? Book Source:Terry Jenkins |
