Robert Moore Williams 1 hr 11 min read

Bill Parker swings his 'copter toward the island Retch is pointing at, swimming like a mirage above the Pacific, a small, tree-fringed place, and a promise of vengeance in Retch's hissing breath.

Robert Moore Williams's 1952 story is a fast lost-world adventure of a hidden island and its secret. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing tale where a search for a mysterious Pacific island, and the dark motives of the man who found it, lead to a paradise with a sting.

In its time

Published in 1952, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

1 hr 11 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).