The Deadly Isles

Graduate researcher Luke Royce lives quietly on Tahiti, until he's run off a cliff and left for dead.

Circumstances are confusing, and evidence sparse-but a plot becomes clear during an eventful voyage to the Marquesas.

Luke must reach his wealthy cousin Brady before more of his family are killed.

He will confront a murderer-and accomplices-after a fateful feast on the beach at Hiva Oa.

SF Grandmaster Jack Vance spun most of his yarns in realms of far-off time and space, with a style to make u...