HELL ISLAND is a novella in Matthew Reilly’s Scarecrow series. If reading the series in order, it is number 3.5. If you’re not reading the whole series, then this is a short action packed read.
Schofield is still recovering from the losses he experienced in the previous novel SCARECROW when he is assigned to another mission.
Grant Island was renamed Hell Island after bitter battles there during WWII between the American and the Japanese fighters. Now the US Air Craft Carrier Nimitz has been marooned near Hell Island with all communication from the 600 strong crew lost. Four teams are being airlifted onto the Nimitz and Hell Island, one of those teams is a Delta team led by Captain Shane Schofield known as the Scarecrow. But what they find on the Nimitz and on Hell Island is not at all what they were expecting. Continue reading