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“Fahy's imaginative debut puts a fresh spin on the survival-of-prehistoric-beasts theme popularized by Jurassic Park.” – Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Fast-paced action adventure with a speculative scientific edge... this debut thriller effectively combines bone-chomping, blood-spurting action-adventure mayhem with intriguing (if improbable) scientific speculation.” – Library Journal

“A perfect read for poolside this summer... Fragment closely follows the patented Michael Crichton style.” – Booklist

In this powerhouse of suspense – as brilliantly imagined as Jurassic Park and The Ruins – scientists have made a startling discovery: a fragment of a lost continent, an island with an ecosystem unlike any they’ve seen before... an ecosystem that could topple ours like a house of cards.

The time is now. The place is the Trident, a long-range research vessel hired by the reality TV show Sealife. Aboard is a cast of ambitious young scientists. With a director dying for drama, tiny Henders Island might be just what the show needs. Until the first scientist sets foot on Henders – and the ultimate test of survival begins...

For when they reach the island’s shores, scientists are utterly unprepared for what they find – creatures unlike any ever recorded in natural history. This is not a lost world frozen in time, an island of mutants, or a lab where science has gone mad: this is 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 more shocking than anything humanity has ever encountered: because among the terrors of Henders Island, one life form defies any scientific theory – and must be saved at any cost.