The island of the dead ships

The Island of the Dead Ships is one of the most famous novels by Alexander Belyaev, the founder of Soviet science fiction literature. The author’s skill opens the world of incredible adventures to the reader - a vast Sargass Sea, which stores many dangerous secrets and puzzles under the thickness of drifting algae, comes to life on the pages of the book.
A sea trip on the steamer "Veniamin Franklin" promised to be long and fascinating, but life ordered otherwise. After the monstrous storm, only three passengers remained on the deck of the cruise airliner: the New York detective Jim Simpkins, the criminal Redzhinald Gatling and the daughter of billionaire Vivian Kingman arrested by him. Fate not only pushed together so different people - she made them entrust their lives to each other and was not mistaken. In the dead of the Sargasso Sea, where the heroes will carry the drifting ship, they will be met by an entire island from the remains of the dead ships and its "Governor" - the insidious and cruel Fergus Slatein ...
The book is illustrated by the artist Olga Minnibaeva.
For secondary school age