The Gyre Mission:Journey to the *sshole of the World
In 2018 a research ship carrying some of America's top scientists disappears at the site of the worlds largest floating landfill, and it is up to a government appointed 'B' team to investigate a potentially eradicate this problem once and for all. But things aren't quite what they seem on Garbage Island, and all too quickly our 'heroes' find that escape is virtually impossible.
Full of twists and turns, mutated animals, parasitic humans and grotesque imagery that will keep you up at night, the Gyre Mission is a sprawling, unpredictable adventure. Edgar Swamp writes with an acerbic wit coupled with a deftness for chilling brutality. Kirkus Reviews calls it 'Visually engaging, an irrefutably intoxicating adventure.' They aren't lying. Sure to be an instant classic, this contemporary disasterpiece explores humankinds moribund environmental priorities, creating a world so foul you can almost smell it waft from the pages like the fetid stench of a city sewer, populated by characters you'd swear you've met...in police line-up!
The Story Behind This Book
In 2011 I read an article about a huge patch of garbage in the northern Pacific called 'The great Pacific garbage patch'. The article described a stretch of water in a gyre (a water vortex) that sucked in garbage from all over the world and was said to be twice the size of Texas. The story wrote itself from there. I wanted to have a survival story set on an island of garbage, with characters that would make bad decisions and get themselves killed in grotesque ways. Hence, this book!