A review by ljjohnson8
Hell Island by Matthew Reilly

4.0

Reilly wrote this for an initiative of the Australian government to encourage their citizens to read more. They asked several Australian authors, including Reilly, to write a very short book that the government then printed and distributed free. It took me about 11 minutes to read and it's a fun, breathless episode in the continuing saga of Reilly's fascinating square-jawed hero, "Scarecrow" Schofield. All of the usual attributes of a Reilly novel show up: brave Marines, upper echelon bureaucratic betrayal, ridiculous unending action, awe-inspiring derring do, and science run amuck - - PLUS some really, really bad monkeys. What's not to love?