5/21/2023 0 Comments Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors![]() ![]() ![]() Isabelle’s sister Annie, and a wounded Japanese prisoner, Akira, who helped save her. Over the next eighteen days, the characters are simply and predictably paired off - Captain Joshua Collins and his wife, Isabelle. No prizes for guessing that the traitor is one of nine castaways on the island. ![]() Four pages later, the ship has been torpedoed, betrayed by a traitor within, and nine survivors are cast up on the remote Pacific island, where they have to play a real-life game of Survivor, if they want to stay alive. The story begins on a hospital ship, which is mandated by international law to save wounded men, whether they be friend or foe. After the exotic setting of his first novel, Shors moves to the Second World War for his second outing, most of the story set on an island in the Pacific whose strategic importance makes its capture of key interest to both the Americans and the Japanese. This is John Shors’ second novel, his debut novel, Beneath a Marble Sky having enjoyed some success. Book review: John Shors' *Beside a Burning Sea* ![]()
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