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Affe Island: The Origin
Paperback
Series: Affe Island, Book 1
General FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 28 2026
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In 1942, the German Navy discovered the perfect hiding place. They should have left it empty.
When cartographer August Petermann charted an uncharted volcanic island in 1860, he unknowingly provided the coordinates for one of WWII's darkest secrets. Eighty years later, Captain Armin Zimmermann transforms the island's hidden lagoon into Germany's most isolated research facility.
Dr. Edward Budler arrives aboard U-47 with a mission that goes beyond military strategy: enhance the island's primate inhabitants through experimental compounds designed to create the perfect soldiers. Isolated beneath tons of volcanic rock, with unlimited test subjects and no oversight, the boundaries of science dissolve.
But evolution works both ways.
As the experiments progress, the subjects grow stronger, faster, more coordinated - and more intelligent. What begins as controlled enhancement becomes something far more dangerous. The animals learn their captors' routines. They test their restraints. They remember every procedure, every injection, every betrayal.
Deep in the island's volcanic heart, the balance shifts. The hunters become the hunted. The experiment becomes the experimenter.
When the generators fail and the lights go out, only one species will emerge from the darkness.
A gripping historical thriller that explores the terrifying consequences when human ambition collides with forces beyond our control - and why some secrets are better left buried in the depths of the Pacific.
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