Caldera

by Nathan Robinson

Eager to impress his older brother, young Somalian Sami joins a group of desperate pirates in committing a daring robbery onboard luxury cruise liner, the Tallulah Bee. But when the plan goes horribly wrong, the pirates are forced to flee the stricken ship and into the dark waters of the South Indian Ocean. Along with a small group of passengers, the thieves find themselves seeking shelter on the rocky shores of a desolate island.
But they’re not alone on this long dead volcano, lurking amongst the crags there’s something that doesn’t want to share this fragile spit of land it calls home. If the castaways want to stand any chance of making it off the island alive, they must band together and head deeper into mysterious interior of... the Caldera.
From the author of “Starers”, “Devil Let Me Go”, “Ketchup on Everything”, and “Midway” comes a new realm of terror.

246 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 17, 2016

About the author

Nathan Robinson started writing fiction at an early age, however it took untill he was 26 to finally submit something.
His first acceptence was for THE CHICKEN IN BLACK which won first prize on www.spinetinglers.co.uk, If you ever meet a girl named Maisie Mae came next, quickly followed by Hatch, Banana Boxes, Brian of the Night and The Spare. Maisie Mae was included in Panic Press's Soup of Souls anthology. His Mexican Gangster thriller Top of the Heap was released as a podcast in April 2011 from www.pseudopod.org and is due for release by The Dark Fiction Spotlight in their best of Anthology


So far he’s had numerous short stories published bywww.spinetinglers.co.uk, Rainstorm Press, Knight Watch Press, Pseudopod, The Horror Zine, The Sinister Horror Company, Static Movement, Splatterpunk Zine and many more.
He writes best in the dead of night or travelling at 77mph.
He is a regular reviewer for www.snakebitehorror.co.uk and Splatterpunk Zine, which he loves because he gets free books. He likes free books.
His first novel “Starers” was released by Severed Press to rave reviews. This was followed by his short story collection “Devil Let Me Go”, and the novellas “Ketchup with Everything” and “Midway” and the novel, “Caldera.”
He is currently working on his next novels, “Death-Con 4” and a sequel to “Starers.”
Follow news, reviews and the author blues at www.facebook.com/NathanRobinsonWrites or twitter @natthewriter

Reviews

[Ifor · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not sure

I'm not really sure if I liked this book. I could live with most of the book, but it's when they reached the island that, for me, it started to crumble. Have a go though.

[Kay · Rating 1 out of 5]

No Thriller

Started off good, but quickly fell into chaos. A robbery that went horribly wrong and quickly went downhill. And oh yeah, you need another editor. Too many spelling and grammatical errors. So many good people died for no reason and the plot just fell apart. This should not be called a dinosaur thriller because THERE WERE NO ACTUAL DINOSAURS! Just gave too much away. Sorry...just don't have anything good to say. Oh yeah, the cursing was really thick. Toward the end, I wanted to throw my kindle. Really wanted to just return it or scrap it, but I read on because I was looking for actual dinosaurs. The ending is cursing, cursing, and more cursing. Nuff said.