Review
"Steroids has nothing on these guys!
Place a bunch of villains in a cellblock and you may have a riot. Now place a bunch of villains with super powers, plus one mighty pissed off innocent hero in the pot and you get Terry L. Vinson's Desolation Island.
The book begins with our main and lovable character Ben Thomason reminiscing with an old friend about the good ol' days when ass kicking and chasing villains was an 'honorable' job to have. As the conversation progresses, you experience his views on how the system has changed...but more than that you find out Ben is hiding out, framed for a murder he didn't commit.
Immediately within several pages, a reader is thrust into a super fight...and I mean super strength fight with an unsuspecting foe for Ben.
Defeated, enraged, and yet framed for another murder, he is now facing life at Desolation Island, the government's top secret 'Alcatrez' for super villains. This enclosure meets every single possible counter measure to fight the gifts these prisoners possess...but does it?
Desolation Island was built on a secret plan to host a very mysterious entity, which only a few handpicked were privy to. Determined to unravel and discover the secret of this entity, a small squad of specialists enter this fortress. In a strange turn of events, Ben will be thrust for the fight of his life alongside some of his past friends and foes but more importantly, beside the gal he shunned not long ago.
Terry brings Desolation Island to life with his individual character profiles, and one can't help but fall in love with Ben's egotistical, macho and sarcastic personae. The whole book was a 'Marvel' delight to read and very easy to visualize as a movie. For those who love X-men, you'll truly enjoy this great read."
Lea Schizas - Founder of Muse Book Reviews
Place a bunch of villains in a cellblock and you may have a riot. Now place a bunch of villains with super powers, plus one mighty pissed off innocent hero in the pot and you get Terry L. Vinson's Desolation Island.
The book begins with our main and lovable character Ben Thomason reminiscing with an old friend about the good ol' days when ass kicking and chasing villains was an 'honorable' job to have. As the conversation progresses, you experience his views on how the system has changed...but more than that you find out Ben is hiding out, framed for a murder he didn't commit.
Immediately within several pages, a reader is thrust into a super fight...and I mean super strength fight with an unsuspecting foe for Ben.
Defeated, enraged, and yet framed for another murder, he is now facing life at Desolation Island, the government's top secret 'Alcatrez' for super villains. This enclosure meets every single possible counter measure to fight the gifts these prisoners possess...but does it?
Desolation Island was built on a secret plan to host a very mysterious entity, which only a few handpicked were privy to. Determined to unravel and discover the secret of this entity, a small squad of specialists enter this fortress. In a strange turn of events, Ben will be thrust for the fight of his life alongside some of his past friends and foes but more importantly, beside the gal he shunned not long ago.
Terry brings Desolation Island to life with his individual character profiles, and one can't help but fall in love with Ben's egotistical, macho and sarcastic personae. The whole book was a 'Marvel' delight to read and very easy to visualize as a movie. For those who love X-men, you'll truly enjoy this great read."
Lea Schizas - Founder of Muse Book Reviews
Product Description
Framed for a murder he didn't commit, second-tier superhero Ben Thomason, known in the trades as 'Desolation Outlaw', is convicted and sentenced to life in prison at Eagle Island Detention Center, a top secret, billion dollar penitentiary that houses only the elite of super-villains and super-hero's gone bad.
Following the initial incarceration phase, he greets both old allies and enemies alike amid an inexplicable feeling of dread that looms atop the desolate island location like a toxic black cloud.
Set against a surreal backdrop filled with deadly mutants, vile alien entities and merciless madmen, the purest of all evils is slowly awakening just below the surface of the prison's stringently controlled environment; an ancient being whose raw power dwarfs those of all assigned inmates combined.
As centuries-old mysteries unravel and shocking truths are unmasked, the imprisoned inhabitants and embittered staff of Eagle Isle are forced to ban together and pool their respective powers in order to survive the greatest threat of all, and from the most unlikely of sources.
No man is an island, indeed, most notably a penal colony turned beachhead graveyard soon to be renamed Desolation Island...
Following the initial incarceration phase, he greets both old allies and enemies alike amid an inexplicable feeling of dread that looms atop the desolate island location like a toxic black cloud.
Set against a surreal backdrop filled with deadly mutants, vile alien entities and merciless madmen, the purest of all evils is slowly awakening just below the surface of the prison's stringently controlled environment; an ancient being whose raw power dwarfs those of all assigned inmates combined.
As centuries-old mysteries unravel and shocking truths are unmasked, the imprisoned inhabitants and embittered staff of Eagle Isle are forced to ban together and pool their respective powers in order to survive the greatest threat of all, and from the most unlikely of sources.
No man is an island, indeed, most notably a penal colony turned beachhead graveyard soon to be renamed Desolation Island...
