Issue 2

Best of the Bookshelf - Just Read

Hell Island

Hell Island is a horror/adventure novella written in conjunction with the Australian Books Alive promotion, by young thriller writer Matthew Reilly. The fourth book in the Shane Schofield series, it is a sequel to the 2003 book Scarecrow, and contains the series' original characters, Captain Shane M. Schofield and Gunnery Sergeant Gena 'Mother' Newman, USMC.

Hell Island was released in retail stores in 2007 after only being available through the Books Alive program.Hell Island is a remote Pacific Island currently used by the American government for scientific experiments. It was originally used as a Japanese airfield during World War II but was captured with a force of more than 500 Marines, including Schofield's grandfather.

The book opens with Schofield's ten-man Marine Recon team parachuting onto the deck of the soon-to-be-decommissioned aircraft carrier, USS Nimitz, along with three other special forces squads - a Delta Force team, a squad of SEALs and a force from the 82nd Airborne Division. The Delta team make landfall on the island while the other three teams investigate the aircraft carrier.

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