the dead patrol

If ever an island was misnamed then Skylark would take the top prize. A foreboding and uninhabited military relic left over from World War II where no one has set foot on its fog laden shores for decades. Even the locals on the mainland know to stay away and fishermen dare not venture into her waters as nothing seems to live within the island’s vicinity.

The military is selling up the land to developers despite the concerns and objections of the locals who live within sight of the island, but they are not interested in heeding the supposedly superstitious warnings to stay away.

Now eight soldiers are being sent to the old base to decommission her. It is a low level job and so the unit sent are a variety of misfits and screw ups selected by the sergeant in charge of the thankless mission.

Corporal Amber Wolfe is a last minute addition to the specially selected unit and a potential spanner in the works as she quickly finds that nothing and no one here is quite what it seems and there are deeper unseen plans afoot.

What should have been a simple job will turn into a nightmare battle for survival as the newcomers quickly discover that they are not alone. Cut off from the mainland and forced to band together without sufficient supplies this is going to be the longest weekend of their lives and not everyone is going to live to see Monday morning.