Isle of Savages
T. Briar
Genre: New Adult Action Suspense Thriller
Publisher: MuseItUp Publishing
Date of Publication: June 13, 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-77127-926-0
ASIN: B07195LTB8
Number of pages: 220
Word Count: 59,400 words
Cover Artist: Eerilyfair Design
Tagline: Eleven souls are shipwrecked on an island teeming with sub-human cannibals. Who will survive to tell the tale?
Book Description:
On July 20, 20— a charter school’s sponsored sail from San Diego to Hawaii hits a reef during a violent storm. Sixteen souls abandon ship. Nine students, along with the hated captain and first mate, wash up on what they believe is a deserted island.
Separated into three groups by circumstance and mutual distrust, treachery and death lurks for all. Over the course of a single day, one student betrays all the others. Another drowns. Two others get ambushed by a great white shark. And, like falling dominoes, the captain, first mate, and six students fall prey to a tribe of bloodthirsty cannibals.
In the face of almost certain death, who will escape from the isle of savages to tell the tale?
Excerpt #5
Treading water inside the escape hatch again, Mia tried to assuage Eric’s disappointment by saying, “There’s butcher knives in the galley. They’d be better than nothing.”
“I hadn’t thought of them.” He brightened. “I was too fixated on finding the shotgun. You ready to go back down one last time?”
“Let’s do it.”
Once again they struck out for the pantry and the galley beyond it. Like before when raiding the pantry, Mia kept watch while Eric rummaged through the galley’s drawers doing the collecting.
Down the length of hallway, visibility was atrophied by the dim light combined with the silt particles floating in the water. She couldn’t see the exit clearly, only the light flooding down into the sunken yacht. It reminded her of the sun barely peeking through on a cloudy or foggy day.
Abruptly, an obscure, long, dark shadow passed though the light. Straining her eyes, she saw…something…coming down the hallway toward them. At approximately twenty-five feet away, a three feet wide, conical head with two black, lifeless eyes and a mouthful of glistening white teeth emerged out of the murky gloom.
Treading water inside the escape hatch again, Mia tried to assuage Eric’s disappointment by saying, “There’s butcher knives in the galley. They’d be better than nothing.”
“I hadn’t thought of them.” He brightened. “I was too fixated on finding the shotgun. You ready to go back down one last time?”
“Let’s do it.”
Once again they struck out for the pantry and the galley beyond it. Like before when raiding the pantry, Mia kept watch while Eric rummaged through the galley’s drawers doing the collecting.
Down the length of hallway, visibility was atrophied by the dim light combined with the silt particles floating in the water. She couldn’t see the exit clearly, only the light flooding down into the sunken yacht. It reminded her of the sun barely peeking through on a cloudy or foggy day.
Abruptly, an obscure, long, dark shadow passed though the light. Straining her eyes, she saw…something…coming down the hallway toward them. At approximately twenty-five feet away, a three feet wide, conical head with two black, lifeless eyes and a mouthful of glistening white teeth emerged out of the murky gloom.
About the Author:
Always striving for pulse-pounding action, sitting-on-the-edge-of-your-seat suspense, and hair-raising thrills, T. Briar’s mainstream thriller writing places courageous heroes and heroines in the fight of their lives against the elements, hostile surroundings, morally bankrupt villains, and any other obstacles T. can think of.
But be warned, once the wheels are set into motion with the first sentence, it’s a twisting, turning journey to the end to see who lives and who dies. And make no mistake, someone’s going to die. Some will even die badly. That’s just the way it is when fighting for survival under perilous conditions. The only question is: Will it be the heroes and heroines, or the villains?
T. Briar’s target audience is New Adults who boldly step up to meet life’s challenges with the confidence of youth urging them on.
Please checkout T. Briar’s page at http://thomasbriar.com to find out more about T. and his thriller writings.
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