Return to Skull Island

This is an original for Baen Ebooks. It was written in collaboration with my brother-in-law, an ex-Marine, ex-police chief who provided most of the historic background against which the book is set.



The book begins in New York only moments after a giant ape crashes onto 34th Street, and filmmaker and entrepreneur Carl Denham finds himself on the run, with not only insurance companies hot on his heels but Thomas Dewey, the fiery District Attorney of New York City. It's a flight, however, that throws Denham squarely into the convoluted machinations of a mysterious, bronze-haired tigress named "Patricia Wildman," machinations that take the pair from running guns to a Central American revolutionary to finding themselves in Manchuria in the midst of the Chinese struggle against the Japanese. Carl and Patricia deal as best they can with prisons and firing squads, madmen and zealots---all to say nothing of the Japanese navy, a ruthlessly ambitious officer and the fate of the civilized world. But never did either of them think that the answer to their dilemma lay in leading a Japanese invasion of fabulous Skull Island and the mind-boggling secret that waited for them there.