Prisoner of Hell Gate (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781250089700)

FOUR DECADES AFTER TYPHOID MARY WENT TO HER GRAVE, FIVE CURIOUS GRADUATE STUDENTS STRUGGLE TO ESCAPE ALIVE FROM THE ABANDONED ISLAND THAT ONCE IMPRISONED HER. CONTAGION DOESN'T DIE. IT JUST WAITS.

In the Hell Gate section of New York's East River lie the sad islands where, for centuries, people locked away what they most feared: the contagious, the disfigured, the addicted, the criminally insane.

Here infection slowly consumed the stricken. Here a desperate ship captain ran his doomed steamship aground and watched flames devour 1,500 souls. Here George A. Soper imprisoned the infamous Typhoid Mary after she spread sickness and death in Manhattan's most privileged quarters.

George's great-granddaughter, Karalee, and her fellow graduate students in public health know that story. But as they poke in and out of the macabre hospital rooms of abandoned North Brother Island--bantering, taking pictures, recalling history--they are missing something: Hidden evil watches over them--and plots against them.

When death visits Hell Gate, it comes to stay.

As darkness falls, the students find themselves marooned--their casual trespass having unleashed a chain of horrific events beyond anyone's imagination.

Disease lurks among the eerie ruins where Typhoid Mary once lived and breathed. Ravenous flies swarm puddles of blood. Rot and decay cling to human skin. And spiteful ghosts haunt the living and undead.

Soon five students of history will learn more than they ever wanted to know about New York's foul underbelly: the meaning of spine-tingling cries down the corridor, of mysterious fires, of disfiguring murder, and of an avenging presence so sinister they'd rather risk their lives than face the terror of one more night.

Author: Dana I. Wolff
ISBN-10: 1250089700
ISBN-13: 9781250089700
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Language: English
Published: 07/05/2016
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 02/01/2016 pg. 52
Publishers Weekly 02/15/2016
Booklist 05/01/2016 pg. 76
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2016
Shelf Awareness 07/08/2016
School Library Journal 12/01/2016 pg. 128
Library Journal 02/01/2016