Hell Island

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It may surprise some people, but of all the books I’ve written, Hell Island has been the most rewarding. Allow me to explain.

As many readers will notice immediately, it is a lot shorter than my other novels. But there’s a reason for this.

Hell Island was originally written for an Australian Government initiative called Books Alive, the objective of which was to get Australians into bookstores and reading more. I was approached to write a short novel, no longer than 110 pages, that would be given away to Australians for free for a month. I thought this was a fantastic idea and jumped at the chance.

I wrote Hell Island.

More than that, I set out to write 110 pages of the most kick-butt, over-the-top, blindingly fast action I could. It’s not often you get a chance to show your stuff to the general population for free, so I seized the opportunity with both hands.

Anyway, the initiative was a roaring success, with over a quarter of a million copies of Hell Island given away. (While Australian readers received the book for free, within days of its release, copies of the book found their way onto eBay, where Aussies were selling them to my American fans for fifty bucks!)

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